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OCUK Ryzen 3900x bundle deal.

Thanks, but I really want a more future-proof motherboard and the X570 boards at least should give me a few years.
For the cooler, I am hoping my current Corsair Hydro will be upto the job. It's only 120mm, but I have it cooling my ageing 6700k at 4.5Ghz, and it comes with many adjusters for different sockets.
 
I'm probably going to just use the chip's turbo, for now. Does this beast O/C well ?
The main problem I have for coolers is my case, it's a desktop Silverstone case similar to the GRANDIA GD05, and the space inside can just about fit a 120mm AIO liquid cooler, there is no room for anything larger. I have a nice white nzxt tower case, it's huge, but it's in storage and difficult to get to.
That is a welcome thing that OCUK change their bundles on Wednesdays, looks promising - my first AMD CPU since the Athlon 64. :D
 
CuriousTomCat said:
Next year's AMD chips will need a different socket so the X570 is future proof for about 16 months, just like the B450 Max is.
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Like Drollic said, better vrm's. Also, I tend to stick to onboard audio, and the Gigabyte board uses the Realtec ALC1220 - which, as far as onboard audio goes, is pretty good.
Also, I didn't think anyone yet knows if AMD will support X570 for Ryzen 4 ? And besides, there is little need to upgrade a 3900x for a long time.
 
I'm sure it is a great board, but I am not interested in a B450 motherboard. They are slightly older boards, and use Realtek ALC892 for audio - I want alc1220.
I am also reading across other forums that the Tomahawk has some cold-boot issues, some BIOS versions have issues with high-end nvidia cards, and the "best" BIOS is a hacked bios.
 
Just ordered, can't wait. Will have a sleepless night now, lol.
It is a bit over-powered for gaming, but next-gen consoles are going to be 8c/16t and devs will make full use of that - which then PC versions will follow.
I also do a lot of emulation, especially newer emulation of PS3, Wii-U, Xbox 360, etc.. and this 3900x is a beast for these emulators. For £672, it's a bargain. Many pay more just for their GPU. I have a last-gen GTX 1080, and now it can stretch it's legs.
I just hope my old Corsair Hydro H100i is upto the task, I won't be overclocking, for now.
 
Avalon said:
Just a heads up, but not all H100i’s came with AM4 mounts and AIO coolers of that generation/OEM were often worse than air cooling.
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Yep, and after looking in the box it appears mine also didn't come with AM4 mounts - also missing the stem mounts.
So, I have opted for this air cooler - Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4. It's got about a 44mm clearance from things like RAM, so should fit ok.
 
Clearance could be a problem, the bundled ram is Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4 3600 and they're 51mm tall, the cooler has 44mm clearance. I had been frantically googling to see if anyone had that specific ram + Dark Rock Pro 4 cooler, and those that I did find all said that they simply moved the fan up just enough to clear the ram.
I can't see how it's overkill, the TDP of the 3900x is 105w, but I have seen some users say you can add another 150w on top as soon as you start pushing the chip, and using PBO.
 
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