Finally had time to setup my new stuff! Purchased it a week ago, but lacked time until now.
Picture is after everything was installed, what you see there are just the empty boxes.
Right now the 5900X sits around 26C on idle and runs into the low 70s from running the Stress function on CPU-Z or running CineBench R20 - the temps may improve slightly as I just installed everything and they say it takes a while for AS5 to cure. Single core boost I see flirt with 4.9 and all core boost hits around 4.55.
Sadly, I've ran into a couple of issues....nothing bad, just very irritating ones. Two issues I've encountered:
1) I seem to be lacking a proper second 120mm fan that I can mount on the other side of the heatsink. The only two spare 120mm fans I have, one just plan flat out doesn't work (she spins freely, but doesn't power up) and the other has covered screw holes for mounting (see picture below I quickly grabbed off the internet.....in fact, that might be the exact fan I have) so I can't hook the wire mounting brackets on the fan to hook on to the heatsink. I don't want to look into picking up a second fan for the Hyper 212 due to issue #2, unless it's my only option.
2) The Hyper 212, she fits just fine in my case (Cooler Master HAF XB Evo), but I didn't take into consideration I have a top mounted fan on the case. The fan itself needs about half an inch to clear the heatsink. The top fan won't spin if I set the top panel on all the way. I currently have the top panel slightly off center so it's resting high enough to allow the top fan to spin.
So, does anyone have any suggestions as to another decent heatsink that'll give me at least another inch of room (or more, that's always nice) to allow the top mounted fan to spin?
The Hyper 212 black I have is 158.8mm high.
My case can support up to 180mm, but that's too tall.
I'm looking for something in the 135mm range or shorter that'll work well with a 5900x. I don't want to go back to an AIO unless I absolutely have to.