What Cpu Cooler

[iwastedmymoneyonaprebuild]

Ok so i might build my own soon and i have this old dell from around 10-15 yrs ago i opened it up last night it had a i3-2120 i plan to reuse the hard drive can i reuse the cpu cooler it works but i plan to use either a ryzen 5 3700x or a ryzen 7 2700x and to over clock can I reuse it im new to this so if this is dumb i'm not sorry

 

[Lorant]

No, can;t reuse the CPU cooler.  The AM4 ones won't accept that one you have currently. 

 

I'd go Ryzen 5 3600 and use that cooler.  Unless you need much more horsepower, then look at the 3700X as you mention, which also comes with it's own cooler.

[.Apex.]

29 minutes ago, iwastedmymoneyonaprebuild said:

Ok so i might build my own soon and i have this old dell from around 10-15 yrs ago i opened it up last night it had a i3-2120 i plan to reuse the hard drive can i reuse the cpu cooler it works but i plan to use either a ryzen 5 3700x or a ryzen 7 2700x and to over clock can I reuse it im new to this so if this is dumb i'm not sorry

 

If it's a stock Intel cooler, no, and I doubt it's a well known aftermarket cooler that has an AM4 bracket that can be bought separately/upgraded, but either way AMD CPU's come with their own coolers that likely have much better cooling capacity than whatever you have on that i3-2120, but if you want to overclock you have to buy something better either way, I wouldn't even consider overclocking if I'm coming off an 8 year old build, hold that off for later

[iwastedmymoneyonaprebuild]

idk i just know its 10 or 15 year old its not a big brand name one.

 

[Giffany]

its not that old.. 10 years ago was the duo core era.. its more like 8 years old at this point aha.

 

Edit: i guess i should add to this besides that. id only get the 2700x if can get a insane deal on it. i know i got mine half price during black friday sales. where i live they sold out all over the place. other wise if just gaming the 3600x is also fine that someone mentioned also mentions since its almost close. but yeah there is no r5 3700x thats an r7 (must been a typo)

Edit2: geez i need a break from the forums again i think. anyways yeah included coolers with processors are way better than anything that long ago so use those. im even using the default one on mine at this point at stock.