discussion i7 6950X Cooling options.

[wade7575]

I'm going to be getting a used i7 6950X from a friend gifted to me for my ASUS X99 mobo and I was wondering do you guys think this cpu cooler will work well enough.

Th CPU is a 10 Core and say's it's 140 watts.

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0BRNJV34H?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

 

[Marzipan]

I'm going to be getting a used i7 6950X from a friend gifted to me for my ASUS X99 mobo and I was wondering do you guys think this cpu cooler will work well enough.

Th CPU is a 10 Core and say's it's 140 watts.

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0BRNJV34H?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

you should be just fine as the Frost Tower 120 has a TDP rating for 265w.

 

[wade7575]

I was kind of thinking that as well but with all the PC's I have built most people just go with 4 to 8 cores and mainly 4 to 6 if they aren't gaming and I just wasn't sure.

I was thinking that when my friend said here you can have this 6950X for nothing that would be great for because that CPU can run Windows 11 with a new TPM installed.

I don't know for sure if I will run 11 on but most likely Win 10 for sure,depending on how fast it is I may use the 6950X as my main rig for video encoding if it is faster then my i9 9900K .

Either way it will still be a good strong encoding PC,I may also look into getting this graphic's card to see if it helps speed up encoding because I do ton of it for sure,the guy in the video say's it good for .264 and .265 which I do a lot of and the price is pretty dam cheap to.

 

[Shadowarez]

depending on the app most if not all (99.99%) use Cuda instead of openCL, im thinking along same lines turning a delidded,direct die 7980xe into my encoding rig. since i do alot of AI Upscaling with Topaz, intel is DOA as they'd lied about having realtime encoding for this. so ill look into Older Quadro's K5000 i think had 24gb GDDR5 or A series if they come in at a good enough price.

 

[moocow]

I'm planning on getting one once I land a job for QuickSync jobs in HandBrake and Plex. Currently sold out and I seen it go as high as $110 USD.

@Shadowarez are you sure you are referring to K5000? It's showing a 4GB VRAM. P5000 has 16GB and P6000 has 24 and both are still pretty expensive IMO.

 

[wade7575]

depending on the app most if not all (99.99%) use Cuda instead of openCL, im thinking along same lines turning a delidded,direct die 7980xe into my encoding rig. since i do alot of AI Upscaling with Topaz, intel is DOA as they'd lied about having realtime encoding for this. so ill look into Older Quadro's K5000 i think had 24gb GDDR5 or A series if they come in at a good enough price.

Do you find with the Intel Arc stuff it's faster encoding video with Handbrake or have you not used an Intel card yet.

 

[Shadowarez]

havent used intel yet was going to grab a A770 but once i found out intels claims of real time acceleration in Topaz was a lie i kinda lost faith in em but thats just me lol im sure they have the guts for handbrake. ill get my hands on a old Quadro see how it stacks up in test bench as some software i use can use multiple gpus without sli.

 

[Bond007]

I think that cooler should be fine for your uses. It is a solid air cooler.

Worst case scenario is you can use it initially and if you end up deciding you want better in the future you can when a sale pops up. Personally I wouldn’t put any more $ in that platform, as that cooler should be perfectly fine.

As for it vs your 9900K…the 9900K may be down cores, but it should still be faster. I would suspect 9900K as fast or slightly faster in multi core, and 9900K notably faster in single or lightly threaded tasks.