[SOLVED] Stock cooler good enough for streaming?

[AscendantLag]

So I have the ryzen 3600 with wraith stealth cooler and wasn’t wondering if it’s good enough for streaming?

Gamemax f15 case and cpu temps are 60-70 when gaming and 94 on cinebench run

 

[Darkbreeze]

Not only is it NOT good enough for streaming, it's not good enough, period.

At 94°C you are 14°C past the recommended advisable maximum temperature. You should not in fact even be able to reach those temps as the CPU should be thottling like a mad bastard by 90°C.

Even without streaming as a consideration, I would HIGHLY recommend, not just for you, but for ANY Ryzen 3000 series owner, that they SERIOUSLY consider an aftermarket cooler and there are tens of very experienced Ryzen builders and tweakers on this forum that can verify that the stock coolers are simply not good enough for the default PBO/2 and XFR2 boost behavior.

If you want a very good cooler, with near the performance of many of the huge twin finstack coolers, the two best options that come to mind are the Noctua NH-U14S and the Thermalright True Spirit 140 direct. The 140 direct is only about £55.00 and is an excellent cooler that I've used to resolve entirely many of the thermal problems on Ryzen 3600, 3600x and 3700x builds that simply couldn't handle thermals with the stock Wraith cooler.

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU Cooler: Thermalright TRUE Spirit 140 Direct 73.6 CFM CPU Cooler (£55.29 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £55.29
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-07-18 02:47 BST+0100

 

[HerrKaLeu]

If by streaming you mane watching youtube and Netflix, it should be enough. And when you watch movies, you have sound on, so the fan noise shouldn't matter.
I can't imagine streaming puts that much load on a hexacore. I run ancient i3 2-core HT CPUs for my media PC and it doesn't go over 20-30% and not over 40°C on stock cooler.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Watching Youtube and Netflix is not "streaming". It's watching Netflix and Youtube.

Streaming means streaming. Specifically, I'm pretty confident the OP is referring to video game live streaming, not "watching videos or movies on Netflix or Youtube".

Obviously, even integrated graphics are enough for that, and primarily the speed of your ISP connection will determine the quality of your watchable stream. But that is not what people are talking about when they ask "can this hardware handle streaming" in 99% of cases.