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So I recently managed to get my hands on a Ryzen 9 5950x. My current cooler is an Arctic Freezer 34 eSports. I'm looking at either the be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 or Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE. Which is better and is there another better option you know about? 

P.S: I won't be OCing

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37 minutes ago, jaslion said:

The arctic should do fine for the 5950x.

 

Of the coolers you listed the cheapest one

I would also like to add that I have a 3090 in the system living in a tropical country so temps are higher than average, I assume a better cooler would help with that

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1 hour ago, Sabber said:

So I recently managed to get my hands on a Ryzen 9 5950x. My current cooler is an Arctic Freezer 34 eSports. I'm looking at either the be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 or Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE. Which is better and is there another better option you know about? 

P.S: I won't be OCing

Both are good, the BQ one is quieter but more expensive

26 minutes ago, Sabber said:

I would also like to add that I have a 3090 in the system living in a tropical country so temps are higher than average, I assume a better cooler would help with that

Then an AIO may help reduce temps inside the case

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5 hours ago, Sabber said:

So I recently managed to get my hands on a Ryzen 9 5950x. My current cooler is an Arctic Freezer 34 eSports. I'm looking at either the be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 or Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE. Which is better and is there another better option you know about? 

P.S: I won't be OCing

I'd get PA120SE and use that extra money you saved to get some more fans (if you don't have some already)

How is that cooler fairing on the pc now?

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CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600 3.8 GHz 6-Core Processor  (Purchased For £175.00) 
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE ARGB 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler  (Purchased For £0.00) 
Motherboard: MSI PRO B650M-A WIFI Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard  (Purchased For £144.99) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  (Purchased For £89.99) 
Storage: Crucial P5 Plus 500 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  (Purchased For £0.00) 
Storage: Kingston A400 960 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (Purchased For £0.00) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GAMING OC Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB Video Card  (Purchased For £448.99) 
Case: Lian Li LANCOOL 205M MESH MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (Purchased For £82.98) 
Power Supply: MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (Purchased For £99.00) 
Total: £1040.95

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

Damn this space can fit a 5090 (just kidding, it needs more)

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Stock R9 is pretty easy to run, the PA120 would be fine. But if you get into tuning, the PS120 would be better. PA120 did ok until after about 220w on my 5900X.

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