Water cooling is almost a must if you intend to mine. I have a 1700 with stock cooler and a box
fan blowing through the open case, and it still gets over 80C on some algos.
In other news...
The market is about to be shaken up with Intel's Cascade Lake X with huge price drops.
Way-to-go AMD for putting the screws to Intel!
Some points of interest...
AMD agressively pushing 7nm has had some issues with yield and consistency.
Intel sticking with 14nm limits improvements but maturity should bring reliability.
Cascade Lake X will br priced to compete with Ryzen 3000 series.
Ryzen, with the bigger cache, is better suited to mining CPU algos.
Cascade Lake X with AVX512 will only improve algos that have already lost the race to
GPUs or ASICs.
Limted supplies may keep AMD from lowering the price of Ryzen3 but they may be loading
up for the next Threadripper.
What else might Intel be holding back to respond?
This is exciting.