I opted for the slightly bumped 3600X as a daily-driver / gamer on An Aorus B450 Pro Wi-Fi mostly because I will not be entering a manual overclock. Given how PBO and XFR are designed to work, and given I won't be doing any heavily multi-core work on this machine, this CPU will happily churn along, boosting alternating cores when it needs to. Even this supposedly weakly VRM'ed board will be just fine. I have a Spire RGB with the copper core lying around, so I'll start with that instead of the included Spire. It would indeed be pretty much futile to expect a "better" cooler to deliver a lot higher clock speeds. Incrementally higher, perhaps. If the Spire won't support AMD's advertised boost clocks, I'll install something a little stronger, but in the interest of simplicity and longevity, I won't be using water.