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I have a Ryzen 9 9950x3d. Cooler is a Thermalright Peerless Assassin twin tower air cooler with 2 fans. Thermal paste is Thermal Grizzly Duronaut. Idle temp is 42-43C Cinebench R23 gets max temp to 83C. This seems pretty good to me. I think the throttle temp for my CPU is 95C. I use this for gaming and running local LLM's. Should I consider an AIO? Edited for typo!

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1 minute ago, Justfloyd said:

I have a Ryzen 9 9950x3d. Cooler is a Thermalright Peerless Assassin twin tower air cooler with 2 fans. Thermal paste is Thermal Grizzly Duronaut. Idle temp is 42-43C Cinebench R23 gets max temp to 83C. This seems pretty good to me. I think the throttle temp for my CPU is 95C. I use this for gaming and running local LLM's. Should I consider an AIO? Edited for typo!

Since you are not hitting the limit of 95c, you will see absolutely no performance improvement by going with an AIO.

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4 minutes ago, Tetras said:

No, if you were unhappy with 100% load performance (like Cinebench) I'd personally look at changing the config rather than a new cooler, but your call. Gaming is fine.

I don't think I will be at max temp often. So most of the time it will be less. Can you clarify what you meant be changing the config?

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37 minutes ago, Justfloyd said:

I have a Ryzen 9 9950x3d. Cooler is a Thermalright Peerless Assassin twin tower air cooler with 2 fans. Thermal paste is Thermal Grizzly Duronaut. Idle temp is 42-43C Cinebench R23 gets max temp to 83C. This seems pretty good to me. I think the throttle temp for my CPU is 95C. I use this for gaming and running local LLM's. Should I consider an AIO? Edited for typo!

the peerless assassin is one of the best tower coolers iirc, and those temps are within range, i don't think an AIO will do that much better 

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If you start to o get into tuning you will want better cooling

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3 hours ago, Justfloyd said:

I have a Ryzen 9 9950x3d. Cooler is a Thermalright Peerless Assassin twin tower air cooler with 2 fans. Thermal paste is Thermal Grizzly Duronaut. Idle temp is 42-43C Cinebench R23 gets max temp to 83C. This seems pretty good to me. I think the throttle temp for my CPU is 95C. I use this for gaming and running local LLM's. Should I consider an AIO? Edited for typo!

I ran my 7950X3D with a TR PA120, it worked fine

But a 360 AIO (Arctic LF3) makes a 5C difference, your choice

Also upgrading the "just decent" TR fans with better ones can help temps and noise level _ but a couple Noctuas cost near as much as a 360 AIO...

 

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Just 5c?

 

Interesting.

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6 hours ago, Justfloyd said:

Unless it offered substantial performance increase

Its a pretty decent boost.

 

This is stock with EXPO, under load CPU was at ~4700MHz average effective.

 

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And then again with my tuned profile.

 

Average effective was ~5400MHz

 

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Those are rookie power numbers though.

 

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