Going to finally replace my interim Ryzen 7 2700x that I've had since Sept with the Ryzen 9 5950x. Managed to get the retail price on it.
Nice, enjoy the processing powa
Yes finally had the time to do it last night and this thing does not disappoint.
I turned PBO off and get some really good numbers.
Able to hit single core 5 GHz with no OC or PBO being turned on. Tis a beast. And some great temps as well with the Arctic Liquid Freezer
Yeah the Arctic Liquid Freezer II's are awesome, although I would have gone with the 280mm version. Better cooling and quieter. Unless, of course, your case can't fit a 280mm.
This turned out to be a bigger pain to fit in than I thought.
I removed the 200mm fan from the top of my Cooler Master Sniper case
to put in the 240mm.
I had measured it out and thought the 240 would fit like as shown in green here below but the VRMs of the board wouldn't allow it and had to strip the top panel out and put the fans on top.
And that caused this problem where the 1st fan would jut out and wouldn't allow the panel to be closed
The red is the fan's extent and the green line is where I need to cut out the plastic to make it fit and be able to close the panel.
I did think of doing this and put both fans on either side of the radiator, that would make the panel close and I'd be able to use both fans but decided against it as the radiator would only be half used.
I'm debating on returning this and just getting the 120mm edition or just suck it up and cut out the plastic on the top panel to accommodate the fan.
I came across a post on the internet where someone had the exact
same idea back in 2009.
For now I'm going to enjoy my new super powerful CPU and worry about the panel later.