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Greetings everyone.
Been a PC enthusiast for almost 20 years. First full-on build was around 2004. First watercooled build was based around an Athlon X2 5000+ Black Edition with an HD4870 in late 2008.
Last WC build was in 2011 or so with the ultra-rare Core2 Duo E8700 (attempting 5.0Ghz...got 4.8 stable). Retired that in 2013, been on air-cooled Intel Z87 / i5-4670K ever since. Think its time to build new and go back to AMD.
Current case is a TT Core X9, so i have lots of radiator space options. Going AM5...haven't decided if it'll be the 7900X3D or 7950X3D along with a 7900XTX. (Current graphics is a 5700XT) I was hoping AMD would do an RDNA3+ refresh later this year, but i heard that's been mothballed.
An RTX4090 is just not in the budget however.
Currently have 2 Alphacool UT60 420 rads.... I'm wondering if this would be enough? I still have space for even more rads, but don't want to spend unnecessary money.
Thanks everyone.
Been a PC enthusiast for almost 20 years. First full-on build was around 2004. First watercooled build was based around an Athlon X2 5000+ Black Edition with an HD4870 in late 2008.
Last WC build was in 2011 or so with the ultra-rare Core2 Duo E8700 (attempting 5.0Ghz...got 4.8 stable). Retired that in 2013, been on air-cooled Intel Z87 / i5-4670K ever since. Think its time to build new and go back to AMD.
Current case is a TT Core X9, so i have lots of radiator space options. Going AM5...haven't decided if it'll be the 7900X3D or 7950X3D along with a 7900XTX. (Current graphics is a 5700XT) I was hoping AMD would do an RDNA3+ refresh later this year, but i heard that's been mothballed.
An RTX4090 is just not in the budget however.
Currently have 2 Alphacool UT60 420 rads.... I'm wondering if this would be enough? I still have space for even more rads, but don't want to spend unnecessary money.
Thanks everyone.
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