Scythe Fuma 2

Am i part of the cool kids now?

MB: Gigabyte B550i Aorus Pro AX

CPU: Ryzen 7 5800x

GPU: Gigabyte Vision RTX 3080

PSU: Corsair SF750

RAM: G.Skill Trident Z Neo 3600 CL16 (2x16)

Cooler: Scythe Fuma 2

Glad the vision fits, it's a beautiful card.

The Good: - Well built cooler and great at keeping temps down. - Installed with my Ryzen 5600x and dropped temps by over 20c compared to the stock cooler. No more thermal throttling when rendering even under 100% load with an overclock. - Very quiet cooler, not even noticable even at 100% fan speed....

The Scythe Fuma 2 and MAYBE the Ninja 5 does not have this problem. Conclusion: this cooler is actually pretty damn good at cooling and looks good, but the installation method and especially uninstallation method leaves so much to be desired. If you're literally never taking this off a build, then have at it. But if you frequently change coolers, I wouldn't recommend this at all.

UPDATE: Scythe states that this pipe crushing is "normal" and does not affect performance or function. They acknowledge it does not look like the pictures on Amazon or their own website. Just be aware of this cosmetic difference in case you expect the pipe tips to look all smooth and sharp like in t...

With pretty good case airflow, a Scythe Fuma 2 air cooler ($60) and a tube of MX-5, I have been able to apply a +200MHz boost with PBO and with about 15 minutes of tweaking in Ryzen Master, I see max temps of 76c on AIDA64 and OCCT both on extreme settings (small FFT's, cache used, etc.). I have yet to even touch curve optimizer or scalar. I am blown away by how good this thing runs.

Scythe Fuma 2 brought my temps down about 25-30 degrees Celsius while running cpu intensive games so that's damn good. The mounting is fine for how big the air cooler is but it covers my first ram slot (Asus prime b560m-a motherboard) which kind of sucks but I'll never upgrade to 32 gig ram so for m...

2080S was the second best at the time, the choice of the majority of high end buyers. 9700k is also a high end part too. If it’s running loud try and determine what CPU cooler, gpu model and case you have since these are all things that can be causing the loud noise. I wouldn’t recommend liquid cooling, manufacturers will lead you to believe it’s superior but they do run a lot louder and are more expensive than air coolers so a good air cooler like the scythe Fuma 2, Noctua D15, Be Quiet dark rock 4 pro or Noctua NH U12S will work just fine.

Prologue: The Wraith Spire cooler I had with my Ryzen 7 2700 was doing okay, but it would have big spikes in temps whenever the CPU was used to transcode. The temps would idle at 39-40C (22C Ambient) and peak at 65-70C (on Prime95). The Wraith Spire would frequently spin up its fans to cool the CPU,...

From a Scythe Fuma 2, I went with water cooling (NZXT Kraken X53) this time since my GPU won't fit the air cooled version of this case. The hardest part should be installing the GPU. The height fits but including the PCI-E cable, it just hits the rad fans so much.

First off, the machine I built has a Ryzen 5600X as the CPU, and the case is a Lian Li LANCOOL II-X, so there is some decent cooling available. I started off with the stock cooler since I’ve been told I may not immediately need an aftermarket cooler since it’ll handle playing games good, which it di...