Best Air Cooler For Am5 Socket

Blows air like all the others but looks cooler doing it!

Although a bit older since AMD has already announced AM5 socket and the 7000 series processors which are even better. This is still a decent buy on sale for people on a budget looking for a well performing CPU that doesn't consume lots of power like its Intel counterparts.

This motherboard has it all, AM5 socket,16+2 Power Stages,PCIe® 5.0, DDR5,4xM.2 Slots. When you hold it it has weight to it, nothing is cheap. It is solid well built and a breeze to install

Much Better to install then a Air cooler

Someone tried using this cooler with the completely wrong socket and then gave it a bad review which is entirely on them. This cooler is probably the best bang for your buck with older intel platforms. Cooling socket 1156 all the way up to 1151. 1st-9th gen. Ive used this cooler with a 2600k OC to 4.2ghz and was stable. Ive also used it with an i7 7700 and was totally fine. A little noisy but theres no better option sub $10. Would not spend more than 8-10 because theres really good coolers in the 15-20 range that u should consider. Overall its an amazing value and I highly recommend built many systems with it not one complaint, bonus points if your mobo and ram is blue to match.

and a Core i7-9700 processor. (The new Core i7-10700 needs LGA 1200 socket). Crucial DDR4-3200 memory went right in. Installed the processor (with Thermaltake thermal grease) and a Cooler Master Cooler. Everything worked first shot. No issues at all, after over a month of use. Very pleased.

Awesome performance but runs a bit hot. Nothing a good air cooler can't handle though!

This chip comes close to the performance of the X-version. Except with lower power and temperatures. An air cooler can handle this cpu, no problem.

Ever since top vents started coming into vogue, I've longed for a case like this to make an appearance, and it's everything I wanted. The key differentiator of this case compared to most other, modern cases is that it has no vents on the top. For air cooling, this is ideal because you want air to go through the CPU cooler and out the back, not go out the top and skip the cooler entirely or come in from the top and screw up the flow direction. There is a slope in front of the top-mounted PSU that forces the incoming air from the empty space at the top of the front fans down into the CPU cooler. Then the GPU area is fed by additional fans on the bottom to ensure there's plenty of fresh air. This amount of airflow allows you to run the fans at pretty low speeds, being almost silent at 60% in the front and 40% on the bottom, while not significantly reducing the cooling potential. There are mesh filters in front of both sets of fans, keeping the interior a lot cleaner than it would be without them. The panels pop off nicely with some sort of magnetic or tension mounting. Overall, the design of the toolless access and working inside this case feels like an improvement over the Meshify C case I had before. Of course, there is one compromise. If you want non-nvme drives, it only has room for a couple on the rear of the motherboard panel, and there's not much airflow in that area, so I'd hesitate to use a spinning platter hard drive. At this point, I only use nvme drives and a separate NAS for storing media, so that's no problem for me.

Coupled with a Noctua NH-D15 air cooler and everything at stock/default settings, I encode hour long videos using. The CPU was at usage 96% capacity, temp at 65C with the CPU fan at 575 rpm and all cores running at or above 4.2GHz. Haven't tried overclocking yet, but looks like plenty of room. Certainly is great performance straight out of the box