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I've been very happy with my 3900X so far. The only suggestion I would make would be to upgrade the cooler from the one that comes in the AMD retail box to som

by chiph 6y ago

I've been very happy with my 3900X so far. The only suggestion I would make would be to upgrade the cooler from the one that comes in the AMD retail box to something like a Noctua. Since I made that change, it's run much cooler and likely extended it's life significantly. Just make sure you have room in your case, as the Noctua is pretty darn big. My workload with it is general .NET development, transcoding movies, and light gaming.

aspenmayer 6y ago
I can attest to Noctua building large coolers. I recently built a PC with a NH-D15 which came with two NF-P12 redux-900 140mm fans for the cooler. It was easily the largest cooler I’ve ever installed, and also the quietest. I only had it paired with an i7-9700K, but it was amazingly quiet even under max load. Wasn’t able to get it to thermally throttle with 5Ghz boost enabled and running prime95 and MSI Kombustor burn-in mode on the RTX 2060 Super simultaneously to heat up the case. Really happy with how that build turned out.
- aspenmayer 6y ago
  I was mistaken. They are 2x NF-A15 (140mm). https://noctua.at/en/nh-d15 https://noctua.at/en/nh-d15 The other two fans I mentioned went in the topside of the case.
  - chiph 6y ago
    I wasn't able to install the second fan. It hit the top of my ram sticks and stuck up too far to where the case wouldn't close. Even with just the one, temperatures are much improved.
    - aspenmayer 6y ago
      I had that same issue. I hate using fans in the “pull” orientation rather than “push,” but with this cooler, I had to. I left the space above the RAM free, and put one fan in the middle, between the two heatsink stacks, pulling air from the front toward rear side of case. The second fan was on the rear side of the case, also pulling from the front toward rear side. My case had a rear case fan, which I left in place in the push orientation. Next time I would use low-profile memory or just memory with a shorter heatsinks, so I can have the fans push. All in all no thermal problems, so good enough works. It was not a personal build, just a work for hire, and not meant to break records, just a stable high performance gaming PC.

by chiph 6y ago

aspenmayer 6y ago

I can attest to Noctua building large coolers. I recently built a PC with a NH-D15 which came with two NF-P12 redux-900 140mm fans for the cooler. It was easily the largest cooler I’ve ever installed, and also the quietest. I only had it paired with an i7-9700K, but it was amazingly quiet even under max load. Wasn’t able to get it to thermally throttle with 5Ghz boost enabled and running prime95 and MSI Kombustor burn-in mode on the RTX 2060 Super simultaneously to heat up the case. Really happy with how that build turned out.

aspenmayer 6y ago
I was mistaken. They are 2x NF-A15 (140mm). https://noctua.at/en/nh-d15 https://noctua.at/en/nh-d15 The other two fans I mentioned went in the topside of the case.
- chiph 6y ago
  I wasn't able to install the second fan. It hit the top of my ram sticks and stuck up too far to where the case wouldn't close. Even with just the one, temperatures are much improved.
  - aspenmayer 6y ago
    I had that same issue. I hate using fans in the “pull” orientation rather than “push,” but with this cooler, I had to. I left the space above the RAM free, and put one fan in the middle, between the two heatsink stacks, pulling air from the front toward rear side of case. The second fan was on the rear side of the case, also pulling from the front toward rear side. My case had a rear case fan, which I left in place in the push orientation. Next time I would use low-profile memory or just memory with a shorter heatsinks, so I can have the fans push. All in all no thermal problems, so good enough works. It was not a personal build, just a work for hire, and not meant to break records, just a stable high performance gaming PC.