I’ll second the cooler thing. Was running a 360mm AIO. Switched out to a Noctua NH-D14. Significant improvement surprisingly enough.
Just an FYI to anyone that buys a Ryzen 3900 series that they may need to tweak the Voltages on their CPU. As the stock cooler is fine if not overclocker. Mobos seem to set it to 1.4+ when on stock it can be at 1.2. This will decrease temps drastically.
Shown in video below. Helped out someone IK who had one.
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Air coolers can be just as good if not better than watercooling, Like the hype is pointless they look cool yes, but performance wise it doesnt make a difference unless u do a full custome loop. AIOS are just bad. Go noctua and u will have no heat problems haha.
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I was referring to B350 situation where some boards got Ryzen 3 support and some didn’t. But firmware memory size also seems to be the case.
Especially price vs price. 120mm AIOs are SO BAD compared to what you could have gotten for the money in Air coolers.
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100% like watercooling is probably the most overrated thing in PC building haha. Air cools just as good if not better than water does unless your willing to spends hundreds on a custom loop for diminishing returns, of which u could of got a decent noctua one for like £70 be done with it and spend it else where. Like seriously there is no point haha.
Your cooling setup should fit the rest of the system.
The bigger Threadripper, Epyc and Intel i9 10-series or that one insane Xeon W CPU are better under water.
Also: Nvidia GPUs start reducing clocks at 60°C. Not that SLI or CrossFire make sense, but you would want the cards under water when doing it.
Edit: Or when having your card pressed against a tempered glass side panel choking airflow…
Hmm that is true water cooling a card is helpfull but still a beefy Air cooler can easily cool the bigger CPUS, but then size is the reason u go water. Yeah I guess it depends on price but main enthusiast pcs dont really need em. Plus Intels gonna run hot anyway xD 14nm. Plus the 3990x could probably do with it with those 64 cores and 128 threads XD
I wanted to try the AIO stuff and see if it was worth it. Wasn’t bad by any means, but a good Noctua cooler + a good fan setup is just stellar temps wise and is much easier to set up/tear down/clean.
You can air cool threadrippers iirc? No experience with them.
A custom loop is on my to do list though 
nah dude, just strap an industrial fan to the front of your case
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Looks like the mobo for the server I had to put together at work <3. Except the one at work had two cpu slots 0_o
AIO’s are about convenience, they’re easy to deal with, quiet and will get you to about the same level as a decent air cooler.
I’ve run custom loops, I don’t now, they’re not that much additional work if you don’t run hardlines, but they are silly expensive for an incremental improvement in cooling. If your not aggressively overclocking they are only really worth it for the aesthetics.
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Until they leak… xD
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Well I mean a Water chiller is a different story hahaha
Hmm… this got me thinking. Since alcohol can go below 0 C, what about a chiller that go below 0, let’s say -20 C and you run ethanol or methanol in the loop.
Never had one leak and I’ve used them on builds for over a decade, I have 6 running PC’s with them in right now. I’ve probably built 15+ with then.
Sure it can happen, just been lucky I guess.
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Yeah really lucky, all ive ever heard is terrible things about AIO’s really not worth it imo.
Been done before in a loop but not a chiller and yeah it would be possible I bet. hahaha
Or well not heard of it done in a chiller XD
Condensation will make that a very expensive experiment.