For newbies pondering a build of a new computer with Ryzen platform.

( to run Fedora, of course, or at least an rpm-based Linux distro )

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that would interest the general audience, or to correct any errors in the post.

Regarding temperatures of hardware using two budget components:

Ryzen 3 and Radeon 5500XT.

The link below is a readout from the package "glances."

This is with more applications running simultaneously than I would ever use in the real world

( Torcs, SuperTuxCart, Firefox, Gmail, Youtube, glances, CPU-X, OBS-Studio, etc )

My computer case is enormous and with lots of premium fans: two 120mm's on the front

and exhaust fans on the rear top, and a rear exhaust fan, and a giant

Noctua air-cooler with two fans.

graphics card: a refurbished PowerColor 5500XT ( is at 40 degrees C according to CPU-X )

cpu: Ryzen 3 1200AF ( is at 35 C according to CPU-X )

OS: Fedora Rawhide with Gnome 3.38.1 ( kernel 5.9.0.rc8 )

Room temperature: 22.78 C

I have no idea what I am doing, so please do not shoot the messenger.

Summary:

I am attempting to suggest, that if you are a newbie exploring Fedora and only do basic

computing stuff, to build a Ryzen computer with case that has a mesh intake front and a good

exhaust fan. Maybe that is common sense, but lots of cases on the market have a front

glass panel that blocks a whole lot of the intake and changing the dust-filter is squirrely on some

older cases.

Conclusion: If you build a new computer with the new 12 nm Ryzen 3, and use a good air-cooler, and a case

with good air-flow, then you will be able to do basic computer task, with no temperature problems.

In addition:

If you carefully build your computer with optimum parts, you will likely

experience similar temperature results using the new 12 nm Ryzen 5 ( 1600AF ). I would be

making assumption that the cpu load temperature would be around 4 degrees higher. I would

have bought that instead, had it been available on sale at the time I bought my Ryzen 3 1200AF.

David Locklear