Ryzen 7 3700x cooling

[Taff107]

Chaps, swapping my Ryzen 5 2600 out for a 3700x and was wondering which cooler to put on. Currently have a Coolermaster Masterliquid 240 on the 2600 and dont know whether to keep this or swap out for the bundled Wraith Prism air cooler

https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/coolers/cpu-l...

Any advice appreciated.....

[mmm-five]

The Coolermaster AIO is probably leagues ahead of the Wraith air-cooler, so I'd stick to that...and unless the AIO is faulty/past its best, the it will be probably be quieter too.

Just need to ensure your paste is cleaned off & reapplied properly.

[Lucas Ayde]

Taff107 said:

Chaps, swapping my Ryzen 5 2600 out for a 3700x and was wondering which cooler to put on. Currently have a Coolermaster Masterliquid 240 on the 2600 and dont know whether to keep this or swap out for the bundled Wraith Prism air cooler

https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/coolers/cpu-l...

Any advice appreciated.....

If anything, the 3700x should run a little cooler (certainly not much higher temps) so I would just keep your current cooler if you are happy with it.

The Wraith Prism is actually quite decent - surprisingly comes with some LEDs - but perhaps a little on the loud side when ramped up. However, they are a royal PAIN to remove thanks to the clip system and the sticky pad. Managed to end up with thermal pad gum on the pins of my 3700x when I swapped it out for a 5900x recently.

[jingars]

My current desktop, running that processor and Corsair AIO - snip from the Corsair iCUE dashboard.

[phil4]

I've a 5950x, and use the Noctua big jobby (NH-D15)... and seem fine, with temps usually around 60 in normal gaming, peaking to 70 on occasion. CPU max is 90. Quiet cooler too, queiter than my old H110i

[Taff107]

Well swapping it out was painless. Flashed the BIOS and in it went. To avoid having to take out the m/b to fit the wraith, I put the Corsair AIO back on and it seems to be doing ok. Sitting idle at about 35-40 but jumps to about 50 with activity. Briefly played F1 without any overheating issues but haven't had a chance to check the temp yet.

Whilst checking the BIOS version before upgrade, I noticed that for some reason it had reverted to running the RAM at 2133mhz instead of the 3400. Dont know how long that had been going on

[Taff107]

MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon. It's set to, and holding at 3400 now and not switching to 'Auto'