Upgrade from a 3600?

[ecco]

Sooooooo

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we needs more cooling. god damn

Meshify C(?) case and four case fans and the 212. Fans are all Noctua I think.

I have a little $35 Deepcool AK400 and it does wonders for what it is. AIO is an option, but I dont think you need to spend extra on one

 

[aldamon]

I think you should stick with the cooling you have. The point of this exercise was a drop-in upgrade and not to sink even more money into cooling. The noticeable performance increase from 5800X3D comes from Zen 3 IPC and cache (and dramatic increase in 1% lows), not clock the speed. Save anything you were going spend on cooling and use it for future GPU upgrade, which the 5800X3D will handle easily.

 

[Westwood]

Ya, the new fans cooled it enough. The old Antec ones and the stock Meshify ones I'm replacing with the Noctua ones. Just to get everything tidied up.