What air cooler would people recommend to use with a 7800X3D in a Lian Lia A3 case? I don't want to spend too much so dont need top of the line but something that's relatively quiet and decent cooling. I don't want something that's not loud but the CPU is hitting 85 degrees and I also dont want something that's really loud and keeping the CPU at 60-65 degrees if that make sense?
7800X3D - Air cooler recommendations
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Hi
What cooler do you currently have?
85 degrees isn’t good but it’s still within spec for modern AM5 CPUs AFAIK.
You can try improving the mounting pressure and thermal paste of your existing cooler and see if that helps.
Any medium to large tower air cooler will work though since that’s not a hugely demanding CPU.
What cooler do you currently have?
85 degrees isn’t good but it’s still within spec for modern AM5 CPUs AFAIK.
You can try improving the mounting pressure and thermal paste of your existing cooler and see if that helps.
Any medium to large tower air cooler will work though since that’s not a hugely demanding CPU.
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Depends on your budget, but if you want the best then get a D12 G2 and tune the fan profile to your liking. If you want almost as good for much less money then the ID Cooling A720 or Peerless Assassin 120 are both great, in that order.
Regardless of what you pick, it still might hit 85c depending on various factors because that's just how modern CPU's work, they boost very aggressively.
Regardless of what you pick, it still might hit 85c depending on various factors because that's just how modern CPU's work, they boost very aggressively.
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You should look into using the curve optimizer in BIOS to undervolt your cpu and also gain some performance and lower temps. Lots of guides online.
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It doesn't really matter what cooler you use in that case as it's only getting hot air from everything else to try to cool itself. The only intake is at the bottom so the gpu will be using that heating it up and dumping it back into the case for the cpu cooler to use. Even the psu dumps it's air into the case. Stick with the cooler you have and play around with PBO/Curve optimiser to lower power draw and in turn heat. Go into your motherboards bios and try the following:-
1. Enable PBO.
2. Set Scalar to x10.
3. Set auto overclock to +200.
4. Set all core negative curve optimiser (CO) to -20 (all 7800x3d's should manage at least that much).
5. Test. If everything is ok keep tweaking negative curve optimiser until it becomes unstable then reapply the last stable setting.
That will give you a overclock of 200mhz meaning it now boosts on all cores to 5050mhz but at the same time lowers power draw quite a lot which will also lower temps. I have mine running a CO of -28 now. It will probably do more on a per core basis but that takes a lot of testing and I like using my pc. My power draw when gaming is between 52w and 58w depending on the game and with a Thermalright Frozen Edge 240mm AIO with the fans running the motherboard bios silent profile and the pump fixed at 2600rpm the cpu hits the mid 50's while gaming.
1. Enable PBO.
2. Set Scalar to x10.
3. Set auto overclock to +200.
4. Set all core negative curve optimiser (CO) to -20 (all 7800x3d's should manage at least that much).
5. Test. If everything is ok keep tweaking negative curve optimiser until it becomes unstable then reapply the last stable setting.
That will give you a overclock of 200mhz meaning it now boosts on all cores to 5050mhz but at the same time lowers power draw quite a lot which will also lower temps. I have mine running a CO of -28 now. It will probably do more on a per core basis but that takes a lot of testing and I like using my pc. My power draw when gaming is between 52w and 58w depending on the game and with a Thermalright Frozen Edge 240mm AIO with the fans running the motherboard bios silent profile and the pump fixed at 2600rpm the cpu hits the mid 50's while gaming.
Currently using an ARCTIC Freezer 36 but its not that great at cooling. Have reseated it but it still struggles. idle temps are 50 degrees but the moment there is any workload on the cpu it goes to 80-85 instantly even when the fans are ramped up
yeah looks like there are some good videos on youtube for Peerless Assassin 120 may have a look at that one
The only thing that I have already done is to enable XPO profile and set a negative curve of -20 but temps are still high. I'll try your recommendations and see if that makes a difference
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That’s not a bad cooler. It’s small but it’s not bad.
Try remount it and reapply thermal paste and see if that helps.
I saw this review and I think you just need to try tweaking a few things before you start replacing things and spending money
Arctic Freezer 36 Review: Raising the bar for entry-level air coolers
It’s cheap, quiet, and performs well. What more could you want?
What do you mean by "any workload"? If it is a CPU-intensive workload, that's normal.
I'd be surprised if the peerless assassin was very different, the freezer 36 is not that much less effective.
These are just hot running CPUs on air cooling and have aggressive boost behaviour.
To provide an update. I swapped out my air cooler (which I have returned) for a Thermalright Frozen Edge 360 AIO (only £20 more) and it's much better now. Gaming tops out at 60C for the CPU and 60C for the GPU and it's whisper quiet too. Cinebench temps top out at 75C so I am happy with out its worked out.
Thought I'd re-use this thread for a query regarding my choice for a Thermalright Frozen Edge 360 AIO. Can anyone tell me if this is a ok setup RE the water tubes from cpu block to the radiator should be ok with the slight bends I have here?
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That will be fine. I have the 240mm version and the tubes are thick and stiff so they are not going to kink anytime soon.