Spec that I have put together

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I have been doing some research and have put together the spec below for my upgrade. I will be carrying over the GPU, PSU and Case from my current rig and likley upgrading the GPU and PSU once the 5070's are out. The main uses will be productivity, VM's, Coding etc. as I mostly game on console these days. I also like my pc to be as quiet as possible hence the choice of cooler which I use a variant of now.

  • Asrock X870E Nova WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard
  • Crucial T705 2TB NVMe PCIe Gen5 M.2 SSD
  • Noctua NH-D15 G2 LBC Next Gen Dual Tower CPU Cooler
  • AMD Ryzen 9 9900X Twelve Core 5.60GHz (Socket AM5) Processor
  • Corsair Vengeance EXPO 64GB (2X32GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel
 
Solid choices.

9900x can be had for £390 ATM.

Will you benefit from the pcie5 m2 speeds ?

Cooling you can get the arctic freezer 3 360mm aio for £65 if it fits your case., noise just set a custom fan curve.
 
Agree with the above that they're all solid choices.

I would stick with the Noctua cooler too. With an AIO the pumps can be noisy/fail, it'll eventually lose fluid, etc., whereas the D15 will run until the end of time. A lot of people will suggest the Thermalright coolers, but then you've got to add decent fans to it unless you can live with the stock ones. I can't. Cheap fans always pulse, rattle, buzz, etc., and replacing them quickly brings the price up to almost £100 anyway.
 
I have zero problem with the stock Thermalright fans on my Peerless Assassin and in fact I added a third. They don't hum, rattle or any other noise and instead are extremely quiet. I would rather pay £30 for a air cooler than almost £130 for one of Noctua's ridiculously overpriced offerings that offer next to no improvement in performance.
 
pastymuncher said:
I have zero problem with the stock Thermalright fans on my Peerless Assassin and in fact I added a third. They don't hum, rattle or any other noise and instead are extremely quiet. I would rather pay £30 for a air cooler than almost £130 for one of Noctua's ridiculously overpriced offerings that offer next to no improvement in performance.
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My experience with cheap fans has unfortunately been very poor. I don't know whether I've just been unlucky or whether I'm just sensitive to those sorts of frequencies. Some people can't hear coil whine but it drives me insane.

How long have you had the Thermalright fans? I've seen a few reports of them dying within ~6 months but it's difficult to find long term reviews.
 
Tediore said:
My experience with cheap fans has unfortunately been very poor. I don't know whether I've just been unlucky or whether I'm just sensitive to those sorts of frequencies. Some people can't hear coil whine but it drives me insane.

How long have you had the Thermalright fans? I've seen a few reports of them dying within ~6 months but it's difficult to find long term reviews.
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I've had multiple Thermalright fans running for over a year with zero issues.

Even if the fans are a concern you could buy a Phantom Spirit or Peerless Assassin for around £30, replace the fans, and you'd still save a small fortune over going for a Noctua heatsink.
 
9900x review below...7950x is 7.9% faster, 9950X 11.7% faster. (for productivity)

www.techpowerup.com

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X Review - But that Price

The Ryzen 9 9900X, with its 12-core/24-thread design, is designed for those looking to go beyond eight cores. It delivers solid gaming performance and benefits from a 120W TDP. Despite its performance, the $500 cost is high, especially when considering similar products in its category.
www.techpowerup.com www.techpowerup.com

prices of cpu
9950X is 46.67% more expensive for 11.7% gain in performance
7950X is 0.00002% more expensive (1p :cry:) for 7.9% gain in performance

so unless you getting it cheaper, I'd plumb for the 7950X

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £1,559.96 (includes delivery: £0.00)​
 
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Sixteen Core 5.70GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail
PRO-AMD-02674
£660 (incl. VAT)
£519 (incl. VAT)
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AMD Ryzen 9 7950X Sixteen Core 5.70GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail
CP-3DE-AM
£600 (incl. VAT)
£470 (incl. VAT)
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AMD Ryzen 9 9900X Twelve Core 5.60GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail
PRO-AMD-02675
£450 (incl. VAT)
£350 (incl. VAT)
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Tediore said:
My experience with cheap fans has unfortunately been very poor. I don't know whether I've just been unlucky or whether I'm just sensitive to those sorts of frequencies. Some people can't hear coil whine but it drives me insane.

How long have you had the Thermalright fans? I've seen a few reports of them dying within ~6 months but it's difficult to find long term reviews.
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I fitted the Peerless Assassin at the end of October 2022 and the extra identical fan a month later. I actually ditched high end custom water after being on it for over 17 years to go back to air and I won't be going back.
 
mogwai said:
Am I missing something as some sites say the 7950x is Zen 4 and some say it Zen 5?
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7000 series are zen 4, and are the first generation am5 cpu's. the zen 5 9000 series are their replacements (2nd gen am5 cpu's), but really they're just a slight refinement and uplift in performance isn't huge....being mainly down to fab onn 4n process rather than 5nm on the 7000 series (except the redesign of the x3d cpu, which flips the cache layer allowing the die to run at higher clock etc)..
but the 12 core 9900x is just the replacement for the 7900X, and even though it's faster than the 7900x, it's not as fast as the 16core 7950x, even though the newer cpu has better single core performance, it looses out wit the 4 fewer cores

so i guess the real question is if your workload is more single threaded or multithreaded
 
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