Can anyone suggest a good air cooler for Ryzen 5800x

im4gine3 · 31 Dec 2020 at 12:52

Haven't used air cooling since the Pentium days so can anyone suggest an air cooler to go with a 5800x?

Specs of the build consist of:

Asus Crosshair VIII Impact mobo
GSkill Trident Z Royals
Ryzen 5800x

Ideally looking for less than £35, though cheaper the better. Considering AMD do not provide a stock cooler with their CPU, this is only temporary solution while i make sure the components i have purchased work.

Would be a pain if some parts were DOA and the watercooling loop was in place.

Thanks

P.s i do have a EK Supremacy WB lying about which includes AMD fittings... the manual mentions AM3, so i assume the placements are different to AM4, or would the mounting bracket not matter?

mickyflinn · 31 Dec 2020 at 13:03

Arctic freezer 34 will keep that cool the cheaper £20 is out of stock but £25 has 1 left

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/search/index/sSearch/Arctic+freezer+34/sSort/3

Am4 mounting is diffrent so you would have to look into a bracket for your block.

im4gine3 · 31 Dec 2020 at 13:24

Cool thanks.

I assume this cooler is not ram dependant.. meaning it won't fit if certain memory modules are too high?

im4gine3 · 31 Dec 2020 at 13:26

ignore what i said.. answered my own question ha

Thanks to its small footprint, a collision with RAM bars is almost impossible and a backplate increases the stability of the CPU cooler. With the Freezer 34 , Arctic has again created a very efficient and extremely quiet CPU cooler with high compatibility.