Is a air cooler like the Arctic Freezer 36 sufficient for the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X?

[Pandoroo]

Hello there!

I have built a pretty compact setup for myself - a microATX build with the Aerocool Atomic Lite (not the best case, i know, but sufficient for me), 2 120mm fans in the front and 1 120mm fan for exhaustion. On my current CPU, the Ryzen 5 3600, i have the pretty new Arctic Freezer 36, which is a really nice dual-fan single tower cooler and i would love to continue using it, especially since i'm not a fan of water coolers, even Arctic ones. But i also don't wanna plan on using the Ryzen 9 5900X if the cooler couldn't keep up with it's demands, so my specific question is:

If using this cooler (or a similiar one) and leaving it on stock - maybe even using the Eco Mode in Ryzen Master - is the cooler "enough" to not go over 90 degrees on a full load (like Prime95 Small FFTs, like a worst case scenario) and if not, does adding two additional fans on the top help mitigate the problem a bit, or is the cooler not good enough for it and i should consider another one? Because unless it is crucial, i wouldn't want to change it out, and could live with more noise.

Kind regards!

[DoctorNick]

6 minutes ago, Pandoroo said:

Hello there!

I have built a pretty compact setup for myself - a microATX build with the Aerocool Atomic Lite (not the best case, i know, but sufficient for me), 2 120mm fans in the front and 1 120mm fan for exhaustion. On my current CPU, the Ryzen 5 3600, i have the pretty new Arctic Freezer 36, which is a really nice dual-fan single tower cooler and i would love to continue using it, especially since i'm not a fan of water coolers, even Arctic ones. But i also don't wanna plan on using the Ryzen 9 5900X if the cooler couldn't keep up with it's demands, so my specific question is:

If using this cooler (or a similiar one) and leaving it on stock - maybe even using the Eco Mode in Ryzen Master - is the cooler "enough" to not go over 90 degrees on a full load (like Prime95 Small FFTs, like a worst case scenario) and if not, does adding two additional fans on the top help mitigate the problem a bit, or is the cooler not good enough for it and i should consider another one? Because unless it is crucial, i wouldn't want to change it out, and could live with more noise.

Kind regards!

Should be alright after undervolt. Just undervolt in BIOS instead of Ryzen master

[jaslion]

Should be ok at stock worst case minor undervolt.

 

 

[Motifator]

That thing will run a 5900X all day, fino, grande...

[Pandoroo]

Thanks for telling! I'll keep it in mind and hope to say something about it once the CPU arrives here.

Kind regards!

[Tan3l6]

Reading from Reddit though, the 5900X/5950X goes quite hot even with 360mm AIO:

But Freezer 36 should be quite capable air cooler.

[PDifolco]

1 hour ago, Pandoroo said:

Hello there!

I have built a pretty compact setup for myself - a microATX build with the Aerocool Atomic Lite (not the best case, i know, but sufficient for me), 2 120mm fans in the front and 1 120mm fan for exhaustion. On my current CPU, the Ryzen 5 3600, i have the pretty new Arctic Freezer 36, which is a really nice dual-fan single tower cooler and i would love to continue using it, especially since i'm not a fan of water coolers, even Arctic ones. But i also don't wanna plan on using the Ryzen 9 5900X if the cooler couldn't keep up with it's demands, so my specific question is:

If using this cooler (or a similiar one) and leaving it on stock - maybe even using the Eco Mode in Ryzen Master - is the cooler "enough" to not go over 90 degrees on a full load (like Prime95 Small FFTs, like a worst case scenario) and if not, does adding two additional fans on the top help mitigate the problem a bit, or is the cooler not good enough for it and i should consider another one? Because unless it is crucial, i wouldn't want to change it out, and could live with more noise.

Kind regards!

Arctic 36 may be a bit weak for a 5900X full blast, but if you undervolt it a bit and keep PPT under 140W (don't need eco mode) it'll  work fine I think

[Pandoroo]

Okay, i got my Ryzen 9 CPU now and can confirm the following:

My max temps on a pretty warm April day got to a max of 85 degrees on stock settings and got to 77 degrees after putting an offset value of -30 while retaining a boost clock of 4.8 GHz. I'd see this as a win for me.

So yeah, thanks for the help and recommendation!