CPU cooler upgrade

[Fatboy]

I upgraded my ryzen 5 5500 to a 5700X3d and bought a new cpu cooler that doesnt fit (wasted 60 euros). So i am stuck with my previous stock cooler AMD wraith stealth. Does anyone know if its sufficient for this CPU so i dont waste more money gambling on coolers? The guy that installed them run a stress test and it seemed to be fine but i worry because games like CS2 seem to push the temp into the high 70's and 80's and i am planning to buy some even more cpu intensive games soon (thats why i upgraded). Should i get another cooler asap ?

[_I_]

what cooler did you buy?

most have adapters for the am4 socket, and it should ave said what sockets it supports

[xDDD]

I'd say you definitely want something better than the Wraith Stealth. That cooler just isn't very good and the X3D CPUs inherently run a little hotter.

What is the other CPU cooler? If it happened to be a Noctua I'm pretty sure they'll send you the proper adapters for free.

[Fatboy]

Originally posted by _I_:

what cooler did you buy?

most have adapters for the am4 socket, and it should ave said what sockets it supports

Be quiet Dark rock slim so it can fit in my kolink unity code X case and it still didnt fit...its not the socket but the dimensions. Motherboard has pretty small Ram clearance (asrock a520m hvs) so those fat short coolers wont fit either by how i look at it. Its so annoyying.

[Fatboy]

Originally posted by xDDD:

I'd say you definitely want something better than the Wraith Stealth. That cooler just isn't very good and the X3D CPUs inherently run a little hotter.

What is the other CPU cooler? If it happened to be a Noctua I'm pretty sure they'll send you the proper adapters for free.

Its a Dark rock slim. I bought because of its good ram clearance but it desont fit because of the height *facepalm*

[_I_]

https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/A520M-HVS/
thats an office pc board, for bottom end ryzen 3 cpus

only supports the r5/r7/r9 cpus due to the same socket and that it will throttle them

the 5700x3d is a 105w cpu at stock clocks
the board can only give ~80w to it before vrm throttling

stock cooler would be best to help keep its vrm mosfets cool

[Fatboy]

Originally posted by _I_:

https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/A520M-HVS/
thats an office pc board, for bottom end ryzen 3 cpus

only supports the r5/r7/r9 cpus due to the same socket and that it will throttle them

the 5700x3d is a 105w cpu at stock clocks
the board can only give ~80w to it before vrm throttling

stock cooler would be best to help keep its vrm mosfets cool

so basically i should be looking at a new motherboard instead of a cooler? before buying the cpu i checked the support list and it was there so i thought it would be ok. There is no danger of anything blowing up right ?

[r.linder]

Originally posted by Fatboy:

Originally posted by _I_:

https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/A520M-HVS/
thats an office pc board, for bottom end ryzen 3 cpus

only supports the r5/r7/r9 cpus due to the same socket and that it will throttle them

the 5700x3d is a 105w cpu at stock clocks
the board can only give ~80w to it before vrm throttling

stock cooler would be best to help keep its vrm mosfets cool

so basically i should be looking at a new motherboard instead of a cooler? before buying the cpu i checked the support list and it was there so i thought it would be ok. There is no danger of anything blowing up right ?

It's not going to explode but the motherboard will marginally limit the performance of the CPU as it's unable to supply enough power under heavy enough workloads

In order for the motherboard to have any hope of keeping up without the VRMs overheating, you have to use a downdraft style air cooler like the stock Wraith coolers or any similar design where the cooler pulls air down towards the CPU socket and spreads it across the components around the socket

[Fatboy]

Originally posted by r.linder:

Originally posted by Fatboy:

so basically i should be looking at a new motherboard instead of a cooler? before buying the cpu i checked the support list and it was there so i thought it would be ok. There is no danger of anything blowing up right ?

It's not going to explode but the motherboard will marginally limit the performance of the CPU as it's unable to supply enough power under heavy enough workloads

In order for the motherboard to have any hope of keeping up without the VRMs overheating, you have to use a downdraft style air cooler like the stock Wraith coolers or any similar design where the cooler pulls air down towards the CPU socket and spreads it across the components around the socket

thanks!

[_I_]

the board will save itself by throttling the cpu

it will work, just be sure to have the correct drivers so windows knows how its throttling and wont bsod

but some games may crash if things get done out of order when its throttling cores

[Heretic]

Originally posted by Fatboy:

I upgraded my ryzen 5 5500 to a 5700X3d and bought a new cpu cooler that doesnt fit (wasted 60 euros). So i am stuck with my previous stock cooler AMD wraith stealth. Does anyone know if its sufficient for this CPU so i dont waste more money gambling on coolers? The guy that installed them run a stress test and it seemed to be fine but i worry because games like CS2 seem to push the temp into the high 70's and 80's and i am planning to buy some even more cpu intensive games soon (thats why i upgraded). Should i get another cooler asap ?

I've used the same CPU on a NH-D15 cooler and X570 board. On full load this CPU will get hot. Prime95 pushed it to 80+c even on this cooler. No power offsets or other tweaks were used, though. The Wraith is barely good enough for the old Ryzens they shipped with.