Thank you dale, yes Thermaltake cases are awesome looking.

The key is to make the loop simple, have a drain at the bottom of the loop and replacing the water can be done in less than an hour. I can drain, flush and refill my setup in 30 minutes, I have it down to a science though.

Haha thank you. Yes I am a huge nerd for sure.

85 is a bit warm for sure. Water cooling is great and I highly recommend it.

No problem man, good luck with the 3700, I'm sure you will be happy with it. Thanks foe watching.

Thank you very much

Haha thank you.

There is a shortage in manufacturing at the TSMC factory where they make the chips. Compounding that there is more demand due to more people working from home, not necessarily for high end chips, but the high demand for low end and mid range chips means the manufacturing of high end chips will suffer. And there are people scalping these things and selling them for inflated prices, and those that are willing to pay nearly double what retail is enables the scalpers. The 5950x has 8 core CCXs while the 3950x has 4 core CCXs. This means in the 5950x there is less cache sharing which makes the IPC much faster. That and some refinements in the core design, faster clocks and better boosting behavior. I got the 3950x because it will work with my current X370 motherboard. The 5950x requires 500 series and select 400 series motherboards. The performance improvement of the 5950x IMO doesn't warrant to cost of replacing the motherboard as well as the inflated price of the new chip.

@@EtherealProject3D Thanks so much for the detailed explanation here! Thanks so much :)

You are very welcome.

Haha yep you win.