New to liquid cooling

[Chiyawa]

Hi,

 

As the title suggest, I have virtually no experience on liquid cooling.

 

My question is that I spotted some CPU liquid cooler from Corsair (Forgotten the model number). My CPU is Ryzen 3600. I wonder if this cooler is sufficient for this CPU?

 

The cooler has 1 fan (I think is 120mm) mounted at the radiator.

 

My environment is pretty hot (with day time ambient temperature reaching 36 degrees), no air-cond for my work place. Will it keep my system cool enough to perform task (such as video rendering) for long hours?

 

Thanks and regards.

Chiyawa

[Chiyawa]

Update: The liquid cooler looks something like this:

 

https://www.corsair.com/ww/en/Categories/Products/Liquid-Cooling/Single-Radiator-Liquid-Coolers/Hydro-Series™-H75-(2018)-Liquid-CPU-Cooler/p/CW-9060035-WW

[W-L]

1 hour ago, Chiyawa said:

Update: The liquid cooler looks something like this:

 

https://www.corsair.com/ww/en/Categories/Products/Liquid-Cooling/Single-Radiator-Liquid-Coolers/Hydro-Series™-H75-(2018)-Liquid-CPU-Cooler/p/CW-9060035-WW

120mm AIO are alright but in most situations if you have the space a large dual tower aircooler will be more capable and be similar to something such as a 240mm or 280mm AIO. If you plan to do any overclock a larger dual rad or aircooler would be recommended. 

[Chiyawa]

13 minutes ago, W-L said:

120mm AIO are alright but in most situations if you have the space a large dual tower aircooler will be more capable

I see. Thanks for the info. So, any dual tower air-cooler you can suggest?

 

I'm going to use Thermaltake Versa H26, so I'm not sure how much clearance I have for this case. To what I know, the shop keeper told me that it could not fit a super large cooling tower, although I'm not sure how 'large' he meant.

[W-L]

11 hours ago, Chiyawa said:

I see. Thanks for the info. So, any dual tower air-cooler you can suggest?

 

I'm going to use Thermaltake Versa H26, so I'm not sure how much clearance I have for this case. To what I know, the shop keeper told me that it could not fit a super large cooling tower, although I'm not sure how 'large' he meant.

That case has a fit bit of room so a dual tower should fit but do check the specs to see what it can house. If you wanted and planned to overclock a 240mm or 280mm AIO would work great in there. 

[Corsair Nick]

@Chiyawa - What's your budget and which region are you in?  W-L is right that you could fit a larger radiator, and with you rendering for extended hours, a larger radiator will yield a better temps in the long run.  Let me know if you have additional questions about our Hydro Series Coolers, and I can help you out.

[Chiyawa]

9 hours ago, Corsair Nick said:

What's your budget and which region are you in?  W-L is right that you could fit a larger radiator, and with you rendering for extended hours, a larger radiator will yield a better temps in the long run.  Let me know if you have additional questions about our Hydro Series Coolers, and I can help you out.

I actually has no budget, just curious if I should exchange my stock cooler.

I'm planning to do some light rendering, so maybe about around 8 hours or so per day. I'll be using my system for gaming as well (on occasionally, at least).

 

On 8/29/2019 at 12:18 AM, W-L said:

That case has a fit bit of room so a dual tower should fit but do check the specs to see what it can house. If you wanted and planned to overclock a 240mm or 280mm AIO would work great in there. 

I don't plan for overclocking (Yeah, I'm not a good tinkerer), so I'll mostly just use it right out of the box and maybe activating the XMP profile for I have a 3200MHz RAM.

[WoodenMarker]

37 minutes ago, Chiyawa said:

I actually has no budget, just curious if I should exchange my stock cooler.

I'm planning to do some light rendering, so maybe about around 8 hours or so per day. I'll be using my system for gaming as well (on occasionally, at least).

You could use the stock cooler first and see if it's too noisy or inadequate when rendering. 

[Chiyawa]

3 hours ago, WoodenMarker said:

You could use the stock cooler first and see if it's too noisy or inadequate when rendering. 

I have tried that, and well it is a bit noisy, but I don't mind the noise (still barely audible). I do wonder however will the CPU die faster if it keeps hot for too long (about 90c at peak, I know it won't kill the CPU, but still).

[WoodenMarker]

8 minutes ago, Chiyawa said:

I have tried that, and well it is a bit noisy, but I don't mind the noise (still barely audible). I do wonder however will the CPU die faster if it keeps hot for too long (about 90c at peak, I know it won't kill the CPU, but still).

Faster, probably. You'll probably be using a new cpu long before then though. The liquid cooler would probably die before the cpu.

[W-L]

8 hours ago, Chiyawa said:

I have tried that, and well it is a bit noisy, but I don't mind the noise (still barely audible). I do wonder however will the CPU die faster if it keeps hot for too long (about 90c at peak, I know it won't kill the CPU, but still).

As mention by Woodenmarker cooler would be better for the CPU long term. If you are looking at silent cooling under load I would probably recommend a dual raid AIO and run the fans at low speed. 

[Tristerin]

I run a 65w (when stock) R7 1700 on a 120mm AIO (your CPU is also a 65w TDP CPU) in push pull and max temps on Prime95 runs are mid 60c after an hour.  I usually hit the heat soak temp 20 minutes in and then its all just coast at that temp.  I do believe a 120mm would do just fine, however a 240mm would be better as the radiator surface area will easily dissipate heat better than the 120mm surface area of a smaller AIO.  If you haven't spent the money yet, I personally wouldn't buy a 120mm AIO unless it was sub $30 bucks.  Just info sharing.

 

Ive also OC'd on that chip and cooler - 3.8ghz all core which kept it mid 60c's under synthetic load.  Havent pushed it further, will when the rest of the loop for that rig arrives

[Corsair Nick]

17 hours ago, Chiyawa said:

I actually has no budget, just curious if I should exchange my stock cooler.

I'm planning to do some light rendering, so maybe about around 8 hours or so per day. I'll be using my system for gaming as well (on occasionally, at least).

Depending on your case and it's radiator compatibility, we have a number of options.  Since you mentioned quiet as a benefit for what you are looking for, I'd recommend either our H115i Pro or H150i Pro.  They both use specific variants of our ML Series fans, which provide good static pressure at low RPM's, along with a Zero-RPM fan mode for idle and low CPU usage.