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Any Point in Getting a Non-Stock Cooler?

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So I'm planning on upgrading to a 3600x when it comes out, but I want it to be a really budget update as possible, skipping over a lot of things like a new PSU as my current one doesn't even officially support 2 8 pin cards like the one I have in my PC right now but oh well. I've seen many people recently buying additional coolers for their PC's, either extra air coolers or AIO coolers, so will there be any point in me getting a non-stock cooler with my upgrade? Even with my current CPU I don't have any temp issues with an extremely basic cooling solution and that thing is infamous for running extremely hot.

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4 minutes ago, avrona said:

So I'm planning on upgrading to a 3600x when it comes out, but I want it to be a really budget update as possible, skipping over a lot of things like a new PSU as my current one doesn't even officially support 2 8 pin cards like the one I have in my PC right now but oh well. I've seen many people recently buying additional coolers for their PC's, either extra air coolers or AIO coolers, so will there be any point in me getting a non-stock cooler with my upgrade? Even with my current CPU I don't have any temp issues with an extremely basic cooling solution and that thing is infamous for running extremely hot.

Just get a 212 evo. Inexpensive and good.

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If you're not overclocking much or at all, there's really little point. You might get higher sustained boost speeds with an aftermarket cooler, but it won't be a world's difference from the stock solution. I wouldn't worry about it at all.

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3 minutes ago, LukeTheCoder05 said:

Just get a 212 evo. Inexpensive and good.

Too expensive these days, the $30+ price point isn't worth it.

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3 minutes ago, TheSLSAMG said:

If you're not overclocking much or at all, there's really little point. You might get higher sustained boost speeds with an aftermarket cooler, but it won't be a world's difference from the stock solution. I wouldn't worry about it at all.

Yeah I'll probably won't be overclocking, don't have much need for it as my graphics card is really what kinda is and probably will be sustaining my system's performance, besides I even doubt I have too much headroom for overclocking in terms of my PSU, though from what I've read so far the 3600x should be less power consuming than my current CPU, so I may do it at least a little.

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2 minutes ago, avrona said:

Yeah I'll probably won't be overclocking, don't have much need for it as my graphics card is really what kinda is and probably will be sustaining my system's performance, besides I even doubt I have too much headroom for overclocking in terms of my PSU, though from what I've read so far the 3600x should be less power consuming than my current CPU, so I may do it at least a little.

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3 minutes ago, avrona said:

Yeah I'll probably won't be overclocking, don't have much need for it as my graphics card is really what kinda is and probably will be sustaining my system's performance, besides I even doubt I have too much headroom for overclocking in terms of my PSU, though from what I've read so far the 3600x should be less power consuming than my current CPU, so I may do it at least a little.

From what I gathered about AMD's CPUs is that AMD's turbo boost is similar to GPUs: the CPU will overclock as fast as it can within voltage and thermal tolerances on it's own. And it hits the voltage limit pretty quickly. With the Ryzen 2 slides, they were saying you can expect a whopping 7% performance uplift for using premium cooling.

 

So basically, aftermarket cooling on AMD's side seems to be more aesthetics than performance.

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With my 2600x I wasn't able to sustain a constant 4.2ghz clockspeed with the stock cooler. I could only get it to hold 4.0 but with my h100iv2 I've been able to hold a steady 4.3ghz clock without getting over 45c.

 

If you can find a good deal on an aio (below msrp) I would recommend it because you'll end up with a quieter and more stable solution for most applications.

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11 hours ago, fubaredsnaggle said:

With my 2600x I wasn't able to sustain a constant 4.2ghz clockspeed with the stock cooler. I could only get it to hold 4.0 but with my h100iv2 I've been able to hold a steady 4.3ghz clock without getting over 45c.

 

If you can find a good deal on an aio (below msrp) I would recommend it because you'll end up with a quieter and more stable solution for most applications.

I'm not planning on overclocking though.

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20 hours ago, LukeTheCoder05 said:

Just get a 212 evo. Inexpensive and good.

Or not. There are much better alternatives in same price range. Only if its only good option, so if OP is located in Asia or S-America.

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1 hour ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

Or not. There are much better alternatives in same price range. Only if its only good option, so if OP is located in Asia or S-America.

Which I'm not, I live in England.

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