For my Ryzen 9 7950X3D, should I get a 360 AIO liquid cooler or a Noctua air cooler?
5 points
You are always going to have to talk me down from Noctua.
-1 points
I can’t unassociate linus tech tips from noctua in my head and so can’t bring myself to buy them given that channel’s incredible bias and how much they shilled for them.
1 point
1 point
2 points
Can’t speak for the 7950 but my 7900 idles near 60c and peaks at 85c on a 240mm aio. It’s hotter than I’d like, but my understanding is that the X3D models run quite hot regardless of how much cooling you give them.
4 points
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5 points
I use a large tower cooler with a graphite pad because I’m kind of lazy, and fans are easy to replace should they go bad.