Suggested cooling for the 5900x?

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So I was going to buy the 5900x, and I still am.

But now I'm stumped - what cooling to buy? Was only going to use the stock wraith, but now it doesn't come with one. What would people recommend for a low end cooler?

Alternatively, how much more performance would you get out of a middle of the road cooler? At what sort of cost?

 

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Any aio around 80 to 100 quid will do the job, very well

It'll do the job, but is it worth 20% of the card, Vs something further down the range? (Also have a moderate fear of water in my PC. It killed a P3 that was dear to my heart...)

 

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There is no water inside, its also non conductive for that very reason.

Wait, what?? Shows how out of touch I am.
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[q974739]

Why would you spend £500 on a CPU and put a cheapo cooler on it?

CPU's boost higher and for longer with better cooling, moving from my old noctua d14 to a 360m AIO I felt was well worth it.

Because I had planned to upgrade the cooler later, once I'd recovered from the sticker shock - and when games were using more of the available performance.

I'm happy sitting on crap cooling while The Beast quietly games at a load of 50% or so. Upgrades to cooling are something i could take more slowly.

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You won't be able to get it until at least November, just relax and won't for gamers nexus to tear it down and give you some idea on thermals.

Waiting is hard. My last machine was fried by lightning and I'm surviving on the craptop

 

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I've got an old coolmaster 212 hyper in my nearly dead machine. Could I move the fan from this to, say, a 212 Evo?

Would need the new cooler because I can't find a coolmaster mounting kit - and I'm not risking a second party kit not fitting perfectly and breaking something?

Or is the 212 series just sub par nowadays, and I should just stop skimping?

 

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Is your other hardware expensive? Balance the cooling with the costs of your system. This time I built a fairly expensive PC so I forked out more for the cooling. Same with PSU, I find a little more in the right places goes a long way.

I'm trying to go cheap on replacables. Then buy more/better memory, cooling, pcie4 storage etc over the next 5 years, as I feel the need.

Feel the desperate need for an upgrade? I've got an option. If I never get around to it, what's the harm? Lose 1-3fps by not doubling my costs on CPU cooling?