Possibly getting a new CPU?

wearyNATE15 · Aug 6, 2017

bob.blunderton said: ↑

Yes, I wouldn't normally ever recommend against a nice all-in-one cooler. If you were cooling a high-overclocked 6950X cpu (or almost any X299 cpu aside of 4c/8t models), that would come in handy, but not a 65/95 watt cpu on a desktop class PC. Not when you can buy a higher-end model and run 25% more vehicles with the better cpu. You can get to 3.7~3.8ghz with the stock cooler before you really get in the warm-to-hot zone, but even then, you won't hurt it running at those speeds. The reviewers were quite impressed, and it's not other-worldly noisy either.

1600X + AIO water cooler - 339 spent for 6 cores 12 threads with a max 3.8~4.0ghz with that cpu & cooler, limited by chip yield,
1700 + it's included cooler - 299$ spent for 8 cores 16 threads with a max of 3.7~3.8ghz with that cpu & included cooler, limited by heat, though 1700's only hit 3.9 regularly and 20% only will hit 4ghz at 1.35~1.4v depending on luck - 80~90% will hit 3.8ghz though. This is still plenty. The 1700X, 70% of these will hit 4.0ghz, and 1800X, 90% will hit 4.0ghz, and when they hit it, each higher yield is divided by 0.025v in voltage required (the lower the chip model in the product stack, the higher the voltage req'd) to hit 4ghz, if it makes it there.
This way you'll have an extra 40$ to spend on something else you want, like more LED's, or slightly better ram (which may help you more than an extra 100 mhz as this won't really make the system hotter).
I totally don't want to argue with someone when it's their money, I just would give professional-level recommendation here, if it was an intel chip - I WOULD NEVER go against getting a separate cooler by someone else - they run hot - Ryzen is really good though, but the chip manufacture process precisely limits them to a max of 3.8ghz~4.15ghz rating from worst-to-best on OC, including luck of the draw, not including down-branded chips for market conditions (when they re-brand things to a different ID to fill market voids, though this happens I don't think it's really a consideration yet with Ryzen!).
In the end, I hope @(GNG) [S.PLH] wearyNATE15 gets something he likes, and lets us know how well it works!
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If its 339>299 for the 1700 without a water, that sounds good, because I am at top/slightly over limit right now. So I can get a NZXT Hue+ to use in the case now, so i dont have to tear it all apart later to put it in.

bob.blunderton · Aug 7, 2017

(GNG) [S.PLH] wearyNATE15 said: ↑

If its 339>299 for the 1700 without a water, that sounds good, because I am at top/slightly over limit right now. So I can get a NZXT Hue+ to use in the case now, so i dont have to tear it all apart later to put it in.
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Sounds great! Wish you the best with it. Let us know how it went! It's oh-so-easy to end up upgrading everything (as you are buying, and spending too much) but a great processor is really a sound investment, because unlike video detail settings, cpu requirements can't always be adjusted.

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