Ryzen 9 5950X with all 16 cores at 4.5GHz base clock is a beautiful thing. Next step is PBO for single threaded workloads working so it can boost a single core to 5GHz or beyond when the overall CPU load is quite low. It already does it to 4.9GHz @ stock.
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Noctua needs to hurry up and release a new revision of the NH-D15 and 140mm fans.
It'd likely a help a bit to replace Fractal's 140mm rear exhaust with a nicer Noctua fan. It can't keep up with the NH-D15 fans and a fair bit of heat is leaving through the mesh top of the case.
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Clean build times are now around 15% lower than before. It will get better with the single threaded boosting enabled, especially for incremental builds.
There are parts of the build process that are quite bottlenecked. Someone needs make modern implementations of zip/unzip...
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Might as well get one of these since the pricing is barely higher than the standard 1500 RPM variant and is lower than the 2000 RPM one now:
amazon.ca/NF-A14-iPPC-30
Can just keep the maximum RPM at 2000 RPM. GTX 1080 Ti FE is far louder than it would be even at 3000 RPM anyway.
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Go try NH-U12A with the Sterrox fans. It's an absolute cheat wrt fans and coolers.