Test Setup
Our test rig which is comprised of the ASRock X870 Steel Legend WiFi motherboard, along with an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X @ default speed, and a GeForce RTX 4080 Super.
All tests were conducted at turbo clock speeds at a minimum resolution of 1920×1080 or higher. High or Ultra settings enabled.
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 9 9950X @ default clock speed |
| Cooling | Thermaltake Ultra 360 V2 AIO cooler |
| Motherboard | ASRock X870 Steel Legend WiFi |
| Ram | 32GB of Patriot Viper Xtreme 5 DDR5-7200 |
| XMP/EXPO profiles | Yes XMP 3.0 Profiles |
| SSD/HDD | Crucial T700 1TB (PCIE Gen5x4) |
| PSU | Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 1000W 80 Plus Gold |
| VGA card | Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER |
| Drivers | Latest GeForce drivers from Nvidia (Graphics)
Latest AMD Software Adrenalin (Chipset) |
| OS | Windows 11 |
Although the motherboard was able to support both EXPO and XMPO memory modules, at the time of testing we didn’t have any EXPO memory on hand, so we decided to use XMP memory for our tests. We set the ram at DDR5-7200 speeds.
AIDA64 Info
CPU-Z Info
Load Temps
Using the Thermaltake 360 Ultra AIO cooler mounted with 3 x Corsair RX120 RGB cooling fans, the processor produced a full load temperature of 93 degrees Celsius for the CPU, with a high of around 96.4 degrees Celsius. It’s what we expected considering for the Ryzen 9 9950X, so no issues here.
Advice: It’s always good to get yourself a good 360mm AIO Liquid cooler, if you plan to build a system with an AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors.
