Cooling Ryzen

[Dean.P.]

Got a 3900x on a hero viii motherboard and was wondering whether a noctua nhd-15 or a 360 aio would do better at cooling this monster

[Vishera]

7 minutes ago, Dean.P. said:

Got a 3900x on a hero viii motherboard and was wondering whether a noctua nhd-15 or a 360 aio would do better at cooling this monster

I would recommend the Noctua cooler,

Air coolers are a lot more reliable than AIOs and not require much maintenance.

[goto10]

between those two, i would go with noctua, because is just install and forget

 

with watercooling, even with aios, all is more complicated

 

if you go with a 360mm radiator, the case has to be big, very big, what case do you have in mind?

[Firewrath9]

1 hour ago, goto10 said:

if you go with a 360mm radiator, the case has to be big, very big, what case do you have in mind?

Not really. Meshify/Define C's can fit and they're pretty compact

[goto10]

your definition of big and mine are very different, meshify is well designed to fit a 360 in the front, i wouldn't put a 360 in the front, but is doable, yes

[porina]

I recently switched from a CM 240 AIO to D15 Chromax on a 3700X. Temps went up slightly. I went air as I don't like the slight hum/vibration from pumps.

[Tristerin]

If your asking my OPINION - go AIO if you haven't before.  However if you have run AIO's in the past, like I have, and if it were me - Id get the Noctua because Ive been there, done that with AIOs and that bulky ass air cooler piques my interest to try.

[lightblind]

I have ASUS Crosshair Hero VIII, with AMD 3800x I'm running 9 fans total on the TT View 71 ATX (technically eATX) case. I'm going AIO cooler as I've not had any real issues with them "yet". I'm wondering you suggestion on the best one to go with to support the CPU I'm running stock wraith cooler now and although it's cooling it doesn't do the best job of it running at 4.8 ghz and 1.38 v. (roughly). 

 

Any suggested help wou;d be greatly appreciated. 

[Dean.P.]

22 hours ago, goto10 said:

your definition of big and mine are very different, meshify is well designed to fit a 360 in the front, i wouldn't put a 360 in the front, but is doable, yes

It fits there easily, right now I have two 140mm fans + a 120mm fan below, trust me there's an abundance of space even with the Meshify C 

[Dean.P.]

12 hours ago, lightblind said:

I have ASUS Crosshair Hero VIII, with AMD 3800x I'm running 9 fans total on the TT View 71 ATX (technically eATX) case. I'm going AIO cooler as I've not had any real issues with them "yet". I'm wondering you suggestion on the best one to go with to support the CPU I'm running stock wraith cooler now and although it's cooling it doesn't do the best job of it running at 4.8 ghz and 1.38 v. (roughly). 

 

Any suggested help wou;d be greatly appreciated. 

How on Earth have you got the cpu to 4.8GHz that seems unrealistic 

[lightblind]

6 hours ago, Dean.P. said:

How on Earth have you got the cpu to 4.8GHz that seems unrealistic 

AMD Ryzen™ 7 3800X
Graphics Model: Discrete Graphics Card Required
# of CPU Cores: 8
# of Threads: 16
Max Boost Clock: Up to 4.5GHz
Base Clock: 3.9GHz
Thermal Solution (PIB): Wraith Prism with RGB LED
Default TDP / TDP: 105W

 

I lowered the OC though today to 4.3 running way to hot at times and not really needed even 4.3 is decent with 64 gb RAM, bummer is right now i'm GPU bound for another month.