Does this look fine or what? Ryzen 5 2600 cooling.

27MaD · Jul 3, 2020

I bought my R5 2600 of AliExpress new for $100, most new Ryzen CPUs of AliExpress come without a cooler so you will have to buy it separately.
I needed something quiet, efficient and CHEAP.
I was going to get the same cooler that AMD includes with their 2600, the Wraith Stealth. it was priced at nearly $9, but guess what the Wraith Spire was less than $4 more than the Stealth so i thought why not?!
I recieved them all 2 days ago and the paste on the cooler looked weird it looks like this one exactly:

CPU was peaking at 86°C at Prime95 at 3.55GHz across all cores.
tbh it was fine to me, but i thought since i had an MX-4 tube in my disk why not change the stock weird looking paste?
Anyway that's what i did and the results were: "drums"... an improvement of ZERO°C.
In the end i'm satisfied but i thought i should share what happened with you guys.

Stay safe.

HD64G · Jul 3, 2020

Marginal coolers for hot climates.

27MaD · Jul 3, 2020

HD64G said:
Marginal coolers for hot climates.

Yea it easily hits about 40 C during day (104 F) here in Saudi Arabia nowadays.

Toothless · Jul 3, 2020

I'd be getting an actual cooler after seeing how busted that thing is. Screw holes half broken off.

biffzinker · Jul 3, 2020

Toothless said:
Screw holes half broken off.

You referring to the fan screw holes that were intentionally cut away to clear RAM, and components (capacitors) on the motherboard near the socket?

Edit:

FreedomEclipse · Jul 3, 2020

27MaD said:
Yea it easily hits about 40 C during day (104 F) here in Saudi Arabia nowadays.

look for a coolermaster Hyper212 or a Snowman CPU cooler off aliexpress if the hyper 212 isnt available in your region. There are two different versions of snowman - one with 4 heat pipes and other one with 6. Either one will be fine for your needs. 6 heatpipes will cool better obviously but its your budget so you get to choose which one you get.

::EDIT::

or just replace the thermal paste with MX-4 or better.

27MaD · Jul 3, 2020

Toothless said:
I'd be getting an actual cooler after seeing how busted that thing is. Screw holes half broken off.

That's a picture from google for the same cooler with the same looking paste on it. mine is all good.

FreedomEclipse said:
or just replace the thermal paste with MX-4 or better.

"tbh it was fine to me, but i thought since i had an MX-4 tube in my disk why not change the stock weird looking paste?
Anyway that's what i did and the results were: "drums"... an improvement of ZERO°C. "

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Storage	Kingston NV2 1 TB
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Case	Cooler Master MasterBox MB520
Audio Device(s)	HP H360G USB
Power Supply	Cooler Master MWE 550 80+ White
Mouse	HP G200 Black
Keyboard	Redragon MITRA K551-1 RGB
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Motherboard	ASRock B450 Steel Legend, BIOS Version: 10.31 [Beta]
Cooling	Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML120L V2 RGB, 5x Galax Vortex Wind-02 (3x Front Intake + 2x Top exhaust)
Memory	Kingston FURY Beast RGB 3600 MT/s 32 GB (4x 8GB), (KF436C17BBA/8)
Video Card(s)	Palit GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Dual OC
Storage	Kingston NV2 1 TB
Display(s)	MSI PRO M251 (HDMI), Running @104 Hz
Case	Cooler Master MasterBox MB520
Audio Device(s)	HP H360G USB
Power Supply	Cooler Master MWE 550 80+ White
Mouse	HP G200 Black
Keyboard	Redragon MITRA K551-1 RGB
Software	Windows 11 Home

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Mouse	Logitech G502 Hero
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Does this look fine or what? Ryzen 5 2600 cooling.

27MaD

HD64G

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Toothless

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27MaD

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