Ya from what iv’e seen its a solid cooler.
BTW going in on esthetics is a rabbit hole that i normally advise going for only for a brand new build in a lot of cases you’ll end up spending a lot more than you think just to match your current stuff, i would suggest saving that budget and then building looks in mind from the get go, a better solid look and still getting good bang for your buck
For your CPU, I can’t imagine you’d notice a difference. If you were going to be putting it on a more demanding CPU, then I’d say get the Fuuma 2, but for a 1600 it won’t matter which. That’s not going to put out enough heat to matter.
I mean… i know my CPU CAN go a touch higher, but the lil 92mm cooler thats on it right now can’t take the heat.
At current settings, it works
Edit: I can’t say I’ll never upgrade the CPU, but until i can see how Zen 4 is(and can get my hands on a much newer graphics card, i probably won’t be building a whole new system.
With Zen4, you’d be looking at a full platform upgrade anyways, so you’d likely just get a new cooler then as well. Performance wise for a 1600 though, that’s a 65W part and even OC’d like you have it it probably doesn’t draw much over 100W if I had to guess. I could be wrong on that, been a while since I really looked at Zen1 numbers, but I think I’ve got that right. And if I do, the Mugen 5 will have no issue cooling that with room to spare.
Okay, forgive me if I come across as being a little irritable. Still recovering from taking an axe to my foot, got my 4 year old nephew dumped on me earlier today, and I just got back from grocery shopping.
I am fully aware of Zen4 being a full platform upgrade. I anticipate building a whole new system from scratch at that point. I’m not new to this game. I was only curious as to if anyone had any experience with the ID cooler I linked earlier, or any of their other coolers. If they’re not good or hit and miss, then it’s something to probably avoid. Amazon reviews aren’t always reliable, so I was looking for more information about it or if anyone had any insight on the company. I know my other options.
If I decide I want to put in a 3600X/5600X, and I can do it, awesome! This computer would probably be turned into a home theater PC once I build a new one. Again, thank you for the input, but I know what I have.
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/dC2Q78
No worries. Like I said, I’d never heard of that cooler, or even really that brand. And I really didn’t see anyone with a review that I’m familiar with to point to for an informed opinion one way or the other.
Then they’re probably a no-name “Amazon Special” kinda brand, which tend to be hit and miss, leaning more toward the miss.
Wasn’t joking about also wanting to upgrade my storage.
Might not be the worst idea to do that. That’s a lot of anime. I just stream what I want to watch, lol.
Eh, I get tired of commercials. Can’t say I haven’t entertained the idea of buying a couple high capacity enterprise drives, possibly ripping my DVDs and BlueRays onto it, and turning it into a PLEX or media server.
BTW you might want to look into some cloud storage.
Personally i use BackBlaze, the upside is that its 60$ a year for unlimited storage, the bad part is that its a “mirror” service, unlike Google drive and such, its not a folder you can just dump stuff on to, rather it makes a mirror image of your hard drives, so if you plan on running one of your PCs as a storage server, backing it up with back blaze might also be a good idea.
I tend to be off the mind to avoid cloud storage if possible. Kinda got the mindset of having my data on someone else’s computer as being a bad thing. I get they’re a reputable company, but all the same.
Fair enough, for me its for work purposes so i dont have the luxury of being picky. When you have around 7TB of data that you need to have multiple copies, a cloud storage solution is a good way to cut down costs (i still have hard copies but its always good to be paranoid when it comes to important data)
Speaking about CPU coolers, the Deepcool Assassin 3 that I bought back then is still a top performer for my rig, and the cooling is still up there among the best air cpu coolers imo, though it can be a bit noisy at times, but not to a degree it can sound like a jet engine, it’s more like a gentle breeze that can make me help fall asleep, so there’s some bonus ASMR.
It’s a beefy air cooler, but I have some few nitpickings here and there but overall they are not much of a big deal. The first one would be its heat sink color, I wish it has that black finish paint instead of the usual silver/chrome finish it would even look sick with a black color. The second one is that, you have to get a specific case for it, meaning you cannot use its stock fan from the front if you have a case width wise, not really wide. Also a factor of not being able to use the stock 140mm fan from it would be the ram stick you’re using as well, if you have a low-profile set you’re pretty much good to go, if it’s your standard your ram kit, it’s pretty much going to raise your fan and it can be annoying to not being able to close your case’s side panel, therefore like me, had to settle for a smaller fan on the cooler.
I’m rocking a Noctua NH-U12S chromax. Bought as a renewed item from Amazon for $60. Have zero complains, it’s quiet all the time and my R7 1800x almost never passes 72°C. Granted I am in a ~ 30°C environment, and I only using PBO. I was able to overclock the chip to 4.0GHz at around 80°C, but the benefits where to small to justify the heat load.
The original $80 price tag is too much, but if you can find it at a discount used or renewed I think is a good cooler. From my understanding the non-chromax have the same performance so if you find one at a good price it’s also a great option.
Not much of a choice if you need to avoid catastrophic data loss…
Word of caution to stay away from the MSI AIO coolers. Seems like they suffer from the same gunk build-up as the Enermax Liqtech II.
There are other ways
Guys I found an SSD that might be suitable for me in terms of performance and pricing, that would be the Samsung 980 1TB the non-pro version though. It seems that is the only one that I can get at the moment within a reasonable price, but the downside of it is the lack of DRAM it seems, meaning it’s not much faster than the usual recommended SSDs in the market and it’s not surprising since it is a non-Pro version and the pricing of it is around 137USD for me.
I was thinking about getting the ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB version this time, but due to the bait and switch shit that ADATA did, I cannot see myself buying it. There’s the WD Black SN750 SE, not sure about it but it seems solid for games and the Crucial P5, seems great but I am worried about its tendencies to get freaking hot real quick according to some reviewers.
I will not lie, I had to go and double-check that you didn’t accidentally put an extra ‘0’ on the case price. 
