ARCTIC Freezer 34 eSports DUO and Ryzen 5 3600?

DoipS1 · August 5, 2019

As the title suggests, I would like to know how well an ARCTIC Freezer 34 eSports DUO would work with the recent Ryzen 5 3600. I will be mildly overclocking the CPU and would like to know what temps are to be expected with and without OC.

Thank you.

Princess Luna · August 5, 2019

Just use the stock cooler, it's sufficient for it.

There's no more overclocking on Zen 2, just enable PBO on Ryzen Master and that's it.

porina · August 5, 2019

Just now, Princess Luna said:

Just use the stock cooler, it's sufficient for it.

Depending on usage, it might be sufficient but not ideal. I currently have the Wraith Prism from a 3700X on my 3600, otherwise running stock, and it's hitting 90C under Prime95 like workloads. I also have a suspected instability but this needs further looking at. While I had a Noctua D9L on it before under similar conditions, it was around 80C. I swapped over because I wanted the RGB... might have been a mistake. Clocks are near enough the same, within one step (25 MHz). An uprated cooler will give you lower temps and lower noise.

Just now, Princess Luna said:

There's no more overclocking on Zen 2, just enable PBO on Ryzen Master and that's it.

Personally I wouldn't even bother with PBO, especially not with the stock cooler. 3600 stock is hitting around 3.9 GHz all cores with the Prime95 like load. Manual OC test only got me around 4.1 GHz under same load. Lesser loads might be higher clocked in both (think I could run around 4.3 in Cinebench), but the headroom just isn't there.