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Also if you go air cooling and are confident with your abilities, consider delidding to drop temps. more (5 to 20C). If you go air cooling I would assume it is on the basis of long term stability, so don't use liquid metal either. Also invest in a nice PSU (gold minimum) with your peak load pulling only 75% of the rated max wattage

Edit: Like most things look at components real-world testing figures, in this case, wattage, as opposed to TDP when planning

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TR is a nine die CPU that is pretty difficult to delid and the improvement is minimal, nowhere near "5 to 20 C". It's not a 7700K.

Yeah to be fair I was basing my numbers on past projects namely Intel. I haven't looked at TR specifically just offered up the suggestion for those who have never heard of it to look into

Ryzen CPUs are soldered, delidding has minimal impact.

To be honest I can't recall any AMD CPUs that weren't soldered... apart from those that didn't have an IHS in the first place ;)

Intel was just like "we can save 4 $ BOM cost on a 500 $ part there" with their 4th-9th generation of CPUs. No thermal headroom? No problem.

0.8%? Could be worth billions.

My mistake, I thought Ryzen CPUs were still bonded with silicone and a ??? grade paste on the IHS

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