Left is idle, right is under full gaming load (Helldivers 2). My previous rig (Intel) easily went up to 85-90°C in the same circumstances. Ambient temps are slightly elevated as well since we've been having ~30°C temps daily here for a while now.
To me this is almost ridiculous. I had never dreamed I could get my temps under load under 70. CPU is at stock speed since there is literally no reason to push it any further at this point. Can always choose to up the clocks later if I still want to.
Cooler is a Noctua NH-D15 G2. I don't see myself returning to watercooling any time soon. And Noctua has a new customer for life.
Gekoloniseerd. And personally i've also been considering air cooling my cpu again just to switch it up a bit and see what it's like, plus on linux it might make my life easier because i can just let the bios control the fan speed instead of relying on reverse engineered open source alternatives to get it to work. I don't think i'll buy a new cooler until my current aio dies though. I'm pretty sure i've had it for 6 years now and it's still going strong.