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Insanely good CPU.
Has barely even broken a sweat so far. Purchased this to futureproof my PC and have the best of what's currently on offer.
Stacked with the below for my new build and runs like a dream
Ryzen 5950X ASUS ROG STRIX X570-E WiFi II GeForce Aorus 3070ti G.Skill Trident Z Neo 64GB RAM bequiet! Dark Rock Pro 4
Had this running in a new system I built for a few weeks now. It barely breaks a sweat. I chucked a Noctua NH_d15 and dropped a Noctua 120mm NF-F12 industrialPPC on the front of that and the cpu rarely gets over 60 degrees, and that's with it doing some fairly complex optimisation algorithms running 200,000+ iterations.
And when it does start to run a little hotter the nf-f12 jet engine roars into action (its noisy at full speed) and cools it down quickly.
I've just bought this to replace a dead x399 motherboard with a 1950x Threadripper and I can honestly say it's fantastic. It is true though that it does run hotter. I'm guessing that has to do with the smaller surface area with which 16 cores/32 threads are packed in comparison to the huge Threadripper chip that was relatively easy to cool.
I'm using a Dark Rock Pro 250TDP cooler on mine and I operate between 40-60 degrees with a room temperature of 22. Under load it can get to 80 degrees. I'd recommend some high CMF/RPM 120mm fans if you're going to be using the Dark Rock Pro 250TDP. I'm going to be installing 2x Vardar 3000rpm fans instead and optimising my air flow a bit better in my case to lower the temps as much as possible.
In terms of raw power though, my god this CPU is incredible.
Bought this in Nov of 2020. In Dec of 2020 I started having issues with crashing and audio breaking up and even going quite. I though it may have been the motherboard since the issue seemed to be audio related. I replace the PSU, MB, RAM, GFX card to no avail. Then I thought "would it run ok with some cores disabled". Turns out core 7 or 8 in CCD0 was defective. This CPU should have been a 5900X !!
