Bought for 120 euros, and it drops and you think about it? The old AM4 1700x broke down after 7 years (max 64c in summer went with at least 5 hours of gaming every day) and since I can't afford to go to AM5 now, I decided to get this monster (with an extra 50€, you can go for the 5700x, purely for gaming it’s not necessary unless you find something demanding (like Tarkov), but the 5600x will manage). But it gets very hot, even with an aftermarket cooler of 150W (NOCTUA NH-U12S). Guys, when we say hot, we essentially mean that for the performance we get - we paid, how many watts - temperature it consumes - our chip reaches (it will pull several times above the 65w TDP). That's why we say it's a beast. But it heats up. (This is what damages a CPU, the temperatures) Many who say the stock cooler is good, it works well for them only because they haven't tried with an aftermarket cooler (minus 10-20c from the stock), or they don't do any heavy tasks or games that require the CPU to be stressed. If you don't care, fine, they can withstand up to 95c from the factory but it will smell! The room will be like an oven. Not that anything happened, but consider in summer definitely +10c or even more, and simply better temperatures help to not die quickly, to boost (especially multicore) more easily, more frequently, and for longer at max frequencies of our chip, to have less power consumption and less heat production and thus to get the best performance for what we paid, e.g. (fps and watts). Some who say to disable PBO for temperatures (auto = disabled, it will always boost that’s how they are made), will essentially pull 10 watts less, we come back to the point of what game (multicore 4.2-4.3MHz will run with it off), or that we didn't pay for this drop in performance. There is also ECO mode. (Max will pull 65w) 5-15% performance difference as if PBO is off and better temperatures (in non-CPU games, for example, roughly 5-15fps). Otherwise, the solution is undervolt with CO Optimizer. Literally, there’s no reason not to do it (better than PBO off). My chip accepted -28 undervolt on all! cores (lucky - different for everyone). Temperature dropped 10-15c under full load WITHOUT! losing performance. Idle the difference from before is small, it sits at 28-30c and max where it reached 75c under full load (with the stock cooler you might see 90s in tests don’t be alarmed) now it doesn’t exceed 62 - 65c under full load! (10-30min Cinebench). In game (WoW Classic) 200fps capped 2k it sits and looks at me at 45-47c. This is to avoid misunderstandings or misinformation because it plays a role in the performance we will have and the temperatures, the aftermarket cooler, the graphics card, the fps, 1080p, 2k, 4k, 24-27 inch screen, room temperature but also the GAME! (will it pull us single core? Multicore?). And for Cinebench lovers, here’s something to benchmark:
CB r20 Multicore: 4481 Score 60c MAX MULTI temp
SingleCore: 599 Score 40-48c temp
CB r23 Multicore: 11516 Score 65c MAX MULTI temp
SingleCore: 1530 Score 40-50c temp
Nothing crazy, I also had HWMonitor open but these scores without any other tuning just for the temperatures and to check if the undervolt is stable. And a video to start from if you want. It becomes easier through Ryzen Master (4 clicks, and it also shows us which are our faster cores that will actually crash), just go to the settings first and disable saving to the BIOS because if it is unstable every time you test and it fails, you may need to reset the BIOS. Try first on the default profile to familiarize yourself with the stock settings of our CPU, and it will accept undervolt more easily, because in the Precision Boost Override tab or in Auto Overclocking, if you don't change the settings, it will draw as much power as the motherboard allows (105 watts! The beast pulled that) and is considered overclocking (warranty), and you will see crazy temperatures (and better scores of course 12k r23 reached 4750mhz-4850mhz multicore) but generally it will tweak the PBO in the BIOS and the difference in performance is small, it doesn't need to draw 100+watt. Essentially, it is a 5800x with 2 cores disabled. And another tip if you want to overclock, never set static voltage on a chip designed to boost (don't pay attention to the YouTubers with their static all-core overclocks)
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