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Well, I got my Noctua NH-D15 and I got it installed. What a difference in temps and noise. My old Corsair H100 240 was causing thermal shut down on Prime95 at 85+ degrees C. I ran Prime95 for an hour and it didn't break 66C. I expect this to improve as the paste sets up more thoroughly.

And it's so quiet. I should have done this a long time ago.

Now I can play games again!

Ghot said:

Well, I had to weigh my rocket, to decide which engines to get. (post #2053)
But I have no scale. The rocket is supposed to weigh about 20 oz.

A lot of the small digital scales I looked at only go up to 2 lbs. or so.

But I finally found a decent kitchen scale, zero to 33 lbs., USB rechargeable or batteries. $17

Amazon.com: Food Scale -33lb Digital Kitchen Scale for Food Ounces Grams Rechargeable 304 Stainless Steel,Batteries and Type-C Charging | Perfect for Meal Prep, Cooking, and Baking, Black : Home & Kitchen


‎ 8 x 5 x 0.7 inches, feather not included.

20 ounces is 1.25 pounds... If your rocket weighs less than 2 LBS it'd be fine... But a 33 LBS scale is alright I guess. Especially for $17. You should double check the accuracy of the scale with a known weight or something with a known weight like a bag of store bought sugar.

At Bob Lazar's website United Nuclear, he has an awesome scale I want to get that is pretty damn accurate and can count things. So say you need a 500 marbles. You weigh one marble and program that in the scale and then dump a bunch of marbles on the scale and based on that weight the scale will tell you how many marbles there are. Many companies in manufacturing do this with other things that need to be counted quickly. Like crack cocaine... LOL! J/K.

At the United Nuclear website he's also got a pretty decent crystal radio I want to get. Pair that with a good outdoor loop antenna, and the stethoscope headphones and you now have a SHTF receiver...

Catnip said:

Well, I got my Noctua NH-D15 and I got it installed. What a difference in temps and noise. My old Corsair H100 240 was causing thermal shut down on Prime95 at 85+ degrees C. I ran Prime95 for an hour and it didn't break 66C. I expect this to improve as the paste sets up more thoroughly.

And it's so quiet. I should have done this a long time ago.

Now I can play games again!

I use an Evo 212 and have no issues once so ever.... Very cool gaming and not gaming. The difference between air and liquid is actually negligible (small or unimportant). Proper case cooling also plays a major roll.

F22 Simpilot said:

I use an Evo 212 and have no issues once so ever.... Very cool gaming and not gaming. The difference between air and liquid is actually negligible (small or unimportant). Proper case cooling also plays a major roll.

I was looking at the EVO as well, and it seemed that the Noctua got better reviews. I'm sure I would be good with either one, though my CPU does tend to get pretty hot. I may turn down the Vcore and see if my machine still runs.

This thing sure is a monster though, there is only about 1/4" space between the cooler and my graphics card. I was able to get both fans on it, even though I had to lift the front fan slightly to accommodate my the height of my RAM, I was still able to close my case. Without my AIO radiator in the way at the top of my case, I was also able to remount my DVD drive.

As I sit typing this, my PC is idling at 29C. Room temp is 20C. I haven't gone above 51C today since I adjusted my fan curves. What an improvement.

The Ryzens do run a little hot... Yours is apparently 105 watts. My i7 7700 is 65 watts.

It's bad enough though that my RTX 3060 is a monster watt consumer when I game. I can't even imagine the power bill if I had a Ryzen. LOL! I was thinking about going Ryzen, but damn, those TDPs are insane.