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7950X3D AIO or air?

For my Ryzen 9 7950X3D, should I get a 360 AIO liquid cooler or a Noctua air cooler?

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I use a large tower cooler with a graphite pad because I'm kind of lazy, and fans are easy to replace should they go bad.

DScratch

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You are always going to have to talk me down from Noctua.

borari

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Go custom loop then you can slap Noctua fans on your rads.

Rakonat

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I can't unassociate linus tech tips from noctua in my head and so can't bring myself to buy them given that channel's incredible bias and how much they shilled for them.

Dumbkid

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I mean I think everybody shills for them, they make amazing products

moody

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Can't speak for the 7950 but my 7900 idles near 60c and peaks at 85c on a 240mm aio. It's hotter than I'd like, but my understanding is that the X3D models run quite hot regardless of how much cooling you give them.

vikingtons

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The single CCD X3Ds generally operate at a lower power budget. I think the same is true to an extent with the 7950x3d