Im still thinking about switching to Intel and obviously every single review mentions how hot this CPU can get. Thing is: This is mostly at STOCK SETTINGS and in BENCHMARKS. How about real world usage? Can anyone share his experience with this CPU and with reasonable powerlimits/undervolting? Im also planning to use my aircooler, a Noctua u12A. My goal is to keep the PC quiet, would this be possible with aircooling and a bit of fiddling in BIOS? Im cool as long as I could keep the RPM under 1000 much like I do right now on my Ryzen CPU.
It depends what you’re after. That’s a smaller heatsink with only a 120mm fan, so if you’re looking at maxing out all the cores rendering, that fan is going to need some serious RPMs to get enough air through the find. If you’re talking moderate load on some cores, you can probably keep noise quite low by setting an appropriate fan curve. At idle you can probably set the fan to turn off and go passive.