It's building time again and I feel compelled to point out that the stock cooler included with both the Ryzen 5 2400G and the Ryzen 5 2600 is a very tiny pathetic piece of metal that doesn't even have a copper core. The included Wraith Stealth cooler is insufficient for these CPUs by a wide margin yet AMD pushes you to accept these into your home and then you're stuck with them until you either get them to a recycling center or hand them off to someone dumb enough to accept them. They could be fine for a 35W TDP CPU, but they sure aren't close to big enough to cool down a 65W.
Using the stock cooler will make the CPU run a lot slower and cost you performance. You absolutely must resist. Various shills have claimed it's good enough because the CPUs don't overheat with the stock cooler. Well, that's not strange, THEY THROTTLE. As an example, the 2400G with no overclocking can go to 3.85 GHz (supposed "boost") and stay there for hours with all cores loaded with a real cooler (like the one I will abuse for this build). It barely stays at 3.6 GHz with the stock cooler and it's loud fan running at full speed.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. I TRIED TO WARN YOU BUT YOU PROBABLY WON'T LISTEN.
it's worth noting that the stock Cooler Master made cooler is specially bad on the APUs because the VEGA GPU part will also clock down due to insufficient cooling.
Wyatt Baker
Post this on /pcbg/
Adrian Allen
>Ryzen 5 >X470 chipset What did he mean by this?
Nathaniel Roberts
We had literally same thread yesterday but abought asrock non-public beta bios having bugs (which is why it's non-public beta). Looks like shilling to me. AMD stock coolers are incredible.
Isaac Price
>AMD stock cooler >shit Tell me something I ALREADY DON'T FUCKING KNOW
Bentley Long
gold rated psus are a meme
Jordan Jackson
Literally any stock cooler is shit whether intel or amd just get the meme evo cooler if you are such a baby about it
Brody Barnes
Ehh. It's not shit. It's not great, but it's usable if you don't overclock and have otherwise good case cooling. That said I want to replace the cooler on mine. Any recommendations?
Brayden Parker
I guess I should but I doubt they will listen. They never do.
The (only) reason I bought the normally much more expensive ASUS ROG STRIX X470-F instead of the usually much cheaper STRIX B450-F or some other B450 board was that there happened to be a really good weekend sale on it at a local webshop. The choice is obvious if you can get the X470 at the same price as the B450 even if it's basically the exact same board. And it is. For example, the X470 chipset supports two more SATA ports yet both the X470-F and B450-F come with six so it's not like they've bothered to add the extras the X470 supports.
>asrock non-public beta bios The broken AGESA BIOSes are, in fact, not beta. Gigabyte lists them as stable releases on their website which is why I ended up with a unbootable system and complained about it yesterday.
>shilling more like shitposting
>gold rated psus are a meme The EVGA G2's were made by SuperFlower. I've used them in other systems and really like those, prefer them over the G3. But that wasn't the reason for buying it or a gold one, it was 30% off a few weeks ago (probably because the G2 series is discontinued).
