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Noctua NH D15 for Ryzen 9 3950x

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Is Noctua NH D15 good for Ryzen 9 3950x, with overclocking about 4.2GHZ ?, or i needs liquid cooling ?

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if your CPU is Boss, gotta give it the Sauce

Watercool for FlexFactor™. 

 

otherwise 105W TDP is probably fine on air. 

back in the ol' Vashira days we tried to air cool 220W TDP CPUs bro. it was lit. not in a good way. 220W needs liquid, 105W does not. 

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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Only 360mm AIOs are better. But there are other top air coolers than just D15.

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1 hour ago, LogicalDrm said:

Only 360mm AIOs are better. But there are other top air coolers than just D15.

Generally 280mm or bigger AIOs   beat D15.

But for that chip, D15 is enough

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27 minutes ago, Quadriplegic said:

Generally 280mm or bigger AIOs   beat D15.

But for that chip, D15 is enough

280mm isn't enough to be better overall value. The performance difference is only few degree if even that. Only actual big AIOs or custom loops are that much better in pure performance.

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My Phanteks PH-TC14PE which has a similar design gets me 4.3-4.4GHZ on 3900x with Ryzen Master auto OC

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