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>Not to mention that the 10900 has a 65W TDP vs 105W for the Ryzens.

TDP is lie these days .The 65W intel chips will use over 200W in most motherboards.[1] The 10 core you're using will use even more. The 5900X would use 130W max.

Watch your temps, your passive thermal solution may not be up to the task and your CPUs may be throttling or dying prematurely.

[1] https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph16343/120661.png

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Now that is a comment that brings a productive discussion. Thank you. :)

I was indeed weary of keeping only the fanless cooler, so I ended up installing the stock one. Coupled with the fact that it is a big case and it has a lot of fans, I assume that would be enough.

Anyway, what you are saying about the misleading TDP is interesting. Perhaps I will get a 3900X or a 5800X system and if it works out I will return the Intel.

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