Question Is my cooling sufficient for new build?

[knobeat]

Hi All,
I'm pretty new to the world of custom PC's and I'm building a new workstation for remote vfx that's looking quite expensive. I want to make sure the cooling, in particular, is looking good - last thing I want to do is fry something. there is a warranty for the build, but I'd still like some outside input. any thoughts, cooling or otherwise, is appreciated.
It's been recommended to me that I avoid liquid cooling(by a buddy)... I'm not dead set on that it does seem a bit safer to not have it... but I'm new to this...

Cougar MX330-X Black Mid Tower ATX Case , Front USB 3.0
Dual Case Fans 120 mm Extra Quiet DC fan (two fans)
AMD RYZEN 9 7950X3D 16-Core 4.2GHz (5.7 GHz Turbo)
Noctua NH-D15 chromax.Black, Premium CPU Cooler with 2x NF-A15 PWM 140mm Fans
Gigabyte B650M DS3H AM5, DDR5, USB 3.2, USB-C, 2.5GB LAN
MEMORY DDR5 128GB (4x32GB) PC5-38400/4800MHz Quad Channel
GeForce RTX 4090 24GB PCI EXpress 4.0, up to 4 monitors, HDMI+ 3 display port
2 x 1TB SAMSUNG 980 m.2 Solid State Drive,NVMe PCI-Express 3.0, 3500MB/s
2 x 1TB SSD Samsung 870 Series Solid State Drive, SATA3 6.0Gb/s, 560MBs
Realtek HD digital audio (onboard)
Ethernet network adapter 10/100/1000 (onboard)
EVGA SuperNOVA 1000W GQ, 80 Plus Gold, Extra Quiet Modular Power Supply

 

[knobeat]

Those X3D cpu's are meant for gaming, not productivity.

This is something I have been debating internally. I'm trying to find the balance of CPU and GPU rendering. I have seen that it underperforms in productivity, but I have also seen some vray benchmarks where the x3d does pretty well compared to the 7950x and 7800, assuming it's for the cores. I also like that it is a bit less power hungry, if I understand correctly.
good call out tho. it's a debate I'm not 100% on. I don't do gaming at all.

 

[knobeat]

I don't often do productivity stuff... but when I do I use the 7950x3D.

It really boils down to my 70/30 gaming/productivity usage with said productivity being editing/encoding of high resolution 4-6K video.

I saw a lot of benchmarks where the 7800x3D was way behind in that type of stuff... which makes sense considering 8 cores < 16 cores.

The 7950x3D is good at both so that's why I went with it. At the end of the day I'd rather have the extra cores over a few fps that doesn't make all that much difference to me since the 4090 does all the work at 4K resolution anyway.

Another reason I went with the x3D is the power draw and thermals are much better than the non-x3D chips.

I agree on this, although I don't do any gaming. but the power draw is attractive, and the reality is I will still be doing cpu rendering, in addition to Gpu... that said, I'm still debating internally. Thanks for your input!