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well its definately going to be air cooled, i will in fact have a good cooler, will the 5800x go over 90?
i mean if im playing a game and temp is around 65-70 with the 5600x, will it be the same with the 5800x?
Yes, a 5800X will tend to push 90-95C if you don't have a better cooler. That's going to be something like a large 120mm or 140mm air cooler or 240mm AIO...and so will a 5600X. But this is really only with heavy processing on all-core work loads like video rendering or something else that uses a lot of AVX instructions.

Games aren't like that and only hit one or two cores so a 5800X can be fairly cool mid-game where a 5600X might actually be a bit warmer. It's not putting out more heat, it just has fewer cores to spread...

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well its definately going to be air cooled, i will in fact have a good cooler, will the 5800x go over 90?
i mean if im playing a game and temp is around 65-70 with the 5600x, will it be the same with the 5800x?
 
well its definately going to be air cooled, i will in fact have a good cooler, will the 5800x go over 90?
i mean if im playing a game and temp is around 65-70 with the 5600x, will it be the same with the 5800x?
Yes, a 5800X will tend to push 90-95C if you don't have a better cooler. That's going to be something like a large 120mm or 140mm air cooler or 240mm AIO...and so will a 5600X. But this is really only with heavy processing on all-core work loads like video rendering or something else that uses a lot of AVX instructions.

Games aren't like that and only hit one or two cores so a 5800X can be fairly cool mid-game where a 5600X might actually be a bit warmer. It's not putting out more heat, it just has fewer cores to spread the work over so they have less time to cool off. While it is designed to hit 90C, so not really a problem, the better you can cool it means it can continue boosting higher and for longer. That means better performance even if it should still get up to 90C.
 
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