Ryzen 7 3700x stock cooler vs hyper 212 black edition

[Beanman]

I am building my first PC soon and am trying to decide on a cpu cooler for the ryzen 7 3700x. I’m trying to decide between the stock cooler and the hyper 212 black. I like the rgb on the stock but am also fine with the mate black on the hyper 212. I won’t be doing much over locking but would like to run as cool as possible. If you have any recommendations then I would appreciate it.

[Naijin]

2 minutes ago, Beanman said:

I am building my first PC soon and am trying to decide on a cpu cooler for the ryzen 7 3700x. I’m trying to decide between the stock cooler and the hyper 212 black. I like the rgb on the stock but am also fine with the mate black on the hyper 212. I won’t be doing much over locking but would like to run as cool as possible. If you have any recommendations then I would appreciate it.

The Hyper 212 will be slightly better while producing less noise. I replaced the stock fan on my previous 3700x for a bigger one as it was louder than I liked.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

could you wait for a r5 5600x? It would probably be a lot better than the 3700x. 

 

As for your question, the h212 would probably only give a 1-2% temp decrease, I would save the 40$. 

[Beanman]

1 minute ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

could you wait for a r5 5600x? It would probably be a lot better than the 3700x. 

 

As for your question, the h212 would probably only give a 1-2% temp decrease, I would save the 40$. 

Thanks, I’m going for the 3700x because I do a lot of VR and productivity so those extra cores are important. 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Just now, Beanman said:

Thanks, I’m going for the 3700x because I do a lot of VR and productivity so those extra cores are important. 

It depends on which. But I see what you ment there.

 

I would just stick with stock.

[Beanman]

Just now, HelpfulTechWizard said:

It depends on which. But I see what you ment there.

 

I would just stick with stock.

Thanks

[WoodenMarker]

4 hours ago, Beanman said:

Thanks, I’m going for the 3700x because I do a lot of VR and productivity so those extra cores are important. 

What kind of applications are you using?

The 3700x only has 2 more cores and the 5600x isn't far behind in heavily multithreaded workloads. Much of productivity and VR still benefit more from faster cores.  

[Beanman]

1 hour ago, WoodenMarker said:

What kind of applications are you using?

The 3700x only has 2 more cores and the 5600x isn't far behind in heavily multithreaded workloads. Much of productivity and VR still benefit more from faster cores.  

Blender, general VR. I’ve seen the benchmarks and decided that it’s not worth the wait and extra work for the 5 5600x.

[Chiyawa]

12 hours ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

As for your question, the h212 would probably only give a 1-2% temp decrease, I would save the 40$. 

That also depends. For sustain workload, the Hyper 212 actually give a longer sustain time with their big heat sink. Temperature wise, yes, it only decrease slightly, but that decrease means that the CPU can turbo longer before reaching the temperature threshold and reduce its turbo clock speed to somewhere just a little above the base clock.

 

My Ryzen 5 3600 can sustain around 3.9GHz all cores with temperature of 71-72C while the ambient temperature is 36C for over 1 hour. Stock cooler would throttled the CPU down to 3.65GHz. Also, I install 2 fans to the Hyper 212 to make push-pull configuration which helps a lot.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

8 hours ago, Chiyawa said:

36C

out side?

[Chiyawa]

14 hours ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

out side?

Yeah. I stayed in tropical country. day time temperature can go as high as 38c, may go up to 42c for a few days.