I can also recommend the Hyper 212 black edition. Is has a very nice aesthetic IMO and it is cool and relatively quiet (not Noctua level, but good). Build a PC for a friend in the beginning of the year and used one, and found it very ok compared to my NH-U12S for my Ryzen 7 1800x.
The scythe stuff is also very well respected on PC community, so I guess they are a nice option.
The issue with the stock cooler is I find them pretty loud compared to a aftermarket cooler.
I want to have those as well but I cannot seem to find a version of it that has Blue lighting, instead I am seeing a lot of those with the Red lighting and it can ruin the overall black and blue color scheme of my PC. Also the black edition, be it RGB and I am pretty sure I can change its color via MSI RGB or whatever the hell you call it, it’s too pricey for me right now.
I was thinking in the all Black edition (non-rgb), that is around $30 in Amazon, but I understand you aesthetic preference.
Now one good question is: do you intend to overclock? Are you doing work with your computer, like rendering and simulation; or is it just for gaming? Cause if you are just gaming and using stock settings, them I see no problem using the Gammax one. It seems an improvement to the stock cooler and if your cash is limited, go for it.
If you intend to overclock and/or have some more intense uses for you cpu, then I would go for the “higher end” air-coolers: Noctua, Cryorig, Be-quiet, Scythe and similar. They usually have better Heatpipes, more fin density and come with better fans, which you can tune to get a better noise profile using your BIOS. If they are off your budget, maybe wait a little bit so you can get more money, make more research for it and maybe get a black Friday/cyber Monday deal.
Well right now, not going to lie. I have contemplating of waiting and saving up again since the one you recommended me is very good and so far the reviews of it are overall good for users. Same goes to the Gammaxx 400, good reviews for the budget. in terms of overclocking, I don’t do it often
if you just wanna get that extra .1-.2 ghz most amd cpus have the potential to do. most tower after market coolers can do it at this price point especially for zen 1 cpus. the gammaxx will do its job I just dont like it personally cause it’s ugly other than that its a competent hyper 212 clone.
Overclocking Ryzen 3000 and beyond looses its automated boost. Depending on workloads, loosing those boosts may turn a mild overclock into a performance loss.
Yeah I kind of get you when it comes to the aesthetics of your build for that makes it more special for you. But here’s the thing, I am one of those guy who are probably more focused on the part spectrum and performance rather than the look of their rigs for here I am sitting my ass mostly focused on my screen than looking on my rig all the time.
I get that Im similar in a way why I opted to go for an over kill air cooler myself. but with the money Im willing to spend on a cooler it better look the part you know what I mean? if the price difference between better looking cooler and a ugly one is as low as $6 though Im willing to spend the extra just for that slight bump ins aesthetics.
I think I am overall fine with my rig’s look so far, it’s nothing special and it’s not your typical “I am going to flex my rig on you, you damn pleb” rig for it suits me and my personality well. It may look simple but it is good enough to get what you need from it.
That’s very true, including some older Ryzen. I stopped overclocking my Ryzen 7 1800x because the PBO setting get it 4.15GH in almost every game I play, and my compute applications aren’t that intensive (mostly MATLAB). To achieve the same clocks in an all-core overclock was painfully hard and somewhat unstable.
As for the aesthetic part: I’m not the most focused on it but I agree with @RiceGuru. I paid $5 extra t get the black U12S, and even if I don’t always look at my build, the color cohesion is nice. Everything black/silver for me makes a nice visual. Still getting around changing my memory because of red accents though.
@K4sh1ma if you’re really looking for performance, my advice is to wait and get something good straight away. For a more conscious purchase, maybe keep an eye on prices and wait if some good deals to appear. I remember seeing a discount (maybe $10 off?) in Noctua’s coolers during Black Friday last year, so maybe you’ll get lucky.
Photoshop has AI-based face altering filters now. The results are hilariouls XD
This gave me good laughs
Where did it all go so wrong?
so…Parallels is launching a version that lets you install Windows 10 VM in Chrome. however it’s only available for enterprise use and only admin’s can deploy it through the Chrome console. being Parallels is a big thing in the Mac world, it is expected to come to consumer eventually.
it also has some heavy hardware specs. i5 or i7, 16GB of RAM and minimum 128GB SSD. so this is gonna be a premium level Chromebook that’s already going to cost a pretty penny.
Todd Howard’s finally done it, you can play with Skyrim sliders in real life!
so, the RTX 3070 is a solid performer. equivalent to the RTX 2080 Ti but 100w lower power consumption.
there was also a tidbit about Intel making references to rumors and hearsay about how their Xe DP2 should perform around RTX 3070 levels. the caveat is that this GPU isn’t expected until late 2021 where we’re likely already be salivating over the RTX 4000 family.
so I really look forward to seeing what the performance is like for the 3050 and 3060 series and their Ti variants. it will also be neat to see how the low end gets their refresh. 1030 GT has been the standard for far too long. AMD launched the RX 5300 XT in June with the 4000 series APU’s and XT CPU’s…but not even my suppliers have any information on this GPU and Google doesn’t report anything more than the details provided at launch.
That is OEM only.
show me an OEM with it?