Which air cooler?

PowerPie5000 · 29 Jul 2019 at 13:40

I'm looking at upgrading my CPU cooler to something a bit better without going liquid. I currently have the Alpenfohn Matterhorn Pure which doesn't appear to be doing a great job at cooling my Ryzen 5 3600.

Does anyone have an idea how much better the Scythe Mugen 5 rev.B would be? Or maybe one of the Scythe Fuma variants? Ideally I don't want to be spending more than £70-80 on an air cooler. The Dark Rock Pro 4 also looks pretty decent.

I honestly thought the Matterhorn would be fine as it kept the temps on my Broadwell-E chip under control and it's bigger than the stock Ryzen cooler.

Any other suggestions are welcome. Cheers

Terrorfirmer · 29 Jul 2019 at 13:43

Ryzen 2 CPU's are just hot, it's normal. Turning PBO off will probably help with temps too. Your CPU cooler is good, you probably won't get much benefit from upgrading to another.

PowerPie5000 · 29 Jul 2019 at 21:00

Would disabling PBO limit the CPU to just the base frequency? I would test it out, but I'm not at home yet. I would prefer the processor to run at its advertised speeds (up to 4.2ghz).

I still might change the cooler anyway as mine does have some surface damage caused by a bad batch of Kryonaut paste. It didn't seem to affect my I7 6850k temps as far as I could tell.

ExRayTed · 30 Jul 2019 at 13:21

I would have thought the Matterhorn Pure would be more than sufficient. I have one cooling an overclocked 7700K and it copes admirably. What temps are you getting and where are you getting them from? (BIOS, CPU-Z etc)

thedandyp · 30 Jul 2019 at 16:03

I had a ryzen 5 2600x , and with the stock spire cooler, it would hit 95 in cinebench r20. Aida 64 stress tests were completely out of the question. I mounted an old hyper 212 evo, with 2 fans on it, and it greatly reduced the temps down to about 77 in cinebench. Still not ideal, however I just came to terms with Ryzen being much hotter than my old Ivy Bridge system. It seems as though it might be the same with the 3000 series too sadly.