AMD recommends at least 280 All-in-One compact water cooling for cooling the 105 watt TDP CPU. From pure experience, I would rather say that the cooling block should be the critical element here and not the pure radiator surface. Round pump housings and cooling plates are therefore rather not optimal. But even that can be tested later in the final sequence. For my part, I would rather rely on pre-filled and ready-to-use open-loop systems that are also suitable for Intel's Socket 2066. Then the area of the cooling fins in the cooler is certainly large enough. Or you can immediately rely on coolers, which were developed for thread rippers and also have an AM4 holder.
When it came to connectivity, you put your money back on the PCIe Generation 4 and cost USB 3.x, depending on the manufacturer and motherboard. However, the advantages of the new bus will only become apparent gradually if there are other and, above all, affordable products such as appropriate SSDs.
With the new Eco-Mode (which in the end will amount to PBO and TDP limit), limit the power consumption to 65 watts. After all, Cinebench (multi-threaded) still promises 77% of total performance with 44% less power consumption. This in turn logically leads to 7 °C lower temperatures, although unfortunately we could not find any information about the actual cooling system used.
The bottom line is that it is a highly interesting CPU whose gaming performance is quite competitive, which performs superbly in content creation for a consumer CPU that also seems energy-saving and efficient, and with PCIe 4.0 a unique selling point of the 3. Ryzen generation.
As always, reality must prove the rest when the Ryzen 9 3950X has finally materialized in the editorial offices and dealers. Because then instead of slides there are real facts. And in the end, it is they who will decide on the success of the whole action. But one can be quite curious, because even the Ryzen CPUs tested so far have not left a bad impression.
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