@bobblunderton Yes true its the smallest PC in the house spec wise, but it will potentially be a great little games system I might sell it on as its in a very nice little case and buy a Synology box

This bad, the 5900 at low tdp was so tasty..

Alessio1989:

This bad, the 5900 at low tdp was so tasty..

Get a 5900x and find out what the clocks are on a 5900 non-x and set them to match in BIOS with curve optimizer. You can configure all that, boom, you'll have a <80w easily air-cooled chip. Just limit the turbo clocks a bit, or a buy a 3900 non-x if you can find it, it's usually OEM only but there's got to be some floating around on ali express. Might be 5~10w difference but if it's the only way you can get a 12-core is by buying the 5900x retail, go right ahead and then you can easily flip it back into overdrive later on in the life of the system when it's soon time to upgrade.

suty455:

@bobblunderton Yes true its the smallest PC in the house spec wise, but it will potentially be a great little games system I might sell it on as its in a very nice little case and buy a Synology box

I can almost promise some kid even a teenager would love a system like that, heck even I think it's a good system and I have a 3950x / 2070 Super combo here. Would run Fort Nite / COD / Counter-strike / minecraft etc just dandy, and probably better than most of their friend's computers too.