I did this for my 3950x, and it works well. The temps on the CPU still spike up quickly and generate a bit of fan noise under brief loads, but apparently that's quite standard for this platform.
Are you happy with the 3950x? I’m looking at the 3950x and 3900x. I’m not sure if the extra $250 is worth it. It’s replacing a i7-7700k so either one will be a nice upgrade.
There’s a base clock frequency drop that comes with the higher core 3950X that I don’t think is worth it for the prosumer, unless you really do a lot of multitasking.
Both the base clock and max turbo clock are never reached with my Ryzen 3950X. It tends to run at about 4450 MHz single core and 4020-4220 MHz all cores. Mainboard is the marginally suitable Asus Prime B350-Plus, cooler Thermalright Macho Direct (for height reasons).
Virtualization, 4K Plex Transcoding, and other Video Transcoding. It would also serve as a home Flask api that will save data collected by various Raspberry PIs and thermostats. All purpose Linux home server box.
