Alright, I installed it but it didn’t go very well… tried moving it around and everything but… um, 80c on load? Oh hellllll noooo, I get a lot less then that on stock cooler and this is without any overclock I was at 80c…back on stock refuse to change it again until either I upgrade to Ryzen / Intel or decide to stick with FX 8320 and get a liquid. (Of course, I’m considering becoming a Console Player as well)
Gorkie said in /404:
Alright, I installed it but it didn’t go very well… tried moving it around and everything but… um, 80c on load? Oh hellllll noooo, I get a lot less then that on stock cooler and this is without any overclock I was at 80c…back on stock refuse to change it again until either I upgrade to Ryzen / Intel or decide to stick with FX 8320 and get a liquid. (Of course, I’m considering becoming a Console Player as well)
80 under load is normal for air cooling…and I’ll also take this moment for a “told ya so”. Just go aio and we’ll be done with these “oh i’m going to randomly try some other paste or heatsync and hope things work differently” posts.
There’s also no need to limit yourself to one platform. That’s called fanboism. I have pcs, a ps4, a switch, a wiiu, a wii, a n3ds, a 3ds…etc. I have them for console exclusives. Everything else I play on pc.
If you’d stop dicking about with trying to oc too high and continually swapping paste and heatsyncs you could have bought liquid cooling and actually good hardware to cool with it.
gord0 I was not even overclocked, I have been sticking to about 4ghz which is what I get with the turbo alone on the fx 8320… and I’m not limiting my self to one platform I’m just considering buying a ps4 cause my game I play is on it as well and it would save me from doing a ton of upgrades to my pc.
Gorkie said in o.o Be Quiet!:
gord0 I was not even overclocked, I have been sticking to about 4ghz which is what I get with the turbo alone on the fx 8320… and I’m not limiting my self to one platform I’m just considering buying a ps4 cause my game I play is on it as well and it would save me from doing a ton of upgrades to my pc.
4ghz on air cooling is just plain stupid (with most cpus, let alone FX chips). All of your troubles only underline that. Return the cooler you just got and get an aio and you’ll be set.
gord0 Will be a month or so but ill get the AIO soon, any suggestions on a 120mm AIO worth getting? My case wont handle more then 120mm.
Gorkie said in o.o Be Quiet!:
gord0 Will be a month or so but ill get the AIO soon, any suggestions on a 120mm AIO worth getting? My case wont handle more then 120mm.
I don’t really know much about aios except for when I’m going to buy one. I got this less than a year ago:
https://gamingexodus.com/topic/1834/deepcool-gamer-storm-captain-360ex-cpu-liquid-cooler-aio/11
Keeps things cool no matter if it’s summer or winter. I have a FX9590 x85ghz . If the highest temp I’ve seen is low 70s(with stock thermal pads), then it could handle yours at 4ghz. There’s plenty of AIOs out there and none of the one’s I saw while shopping were expensive. I was literally just looking for one that matched the aesthetic of my rig.
I will have a look at DeepCool I have been seeing them around for awhile and considered them in the past.
From what I can tell you went with the Be Quiet Pure Rock Slim? If so, you partnered a 120W rated cooler with a 125W TDP CPU? The temps you’re getting seem to back up that mis-match.
That cooler will be OK on a current gen chip, but for your FX 8320 I think you needed to go much beefier.
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So go liquid and you’ll not have to think about it anymore. Also way easier to dust out a rad when the time comes vs a cpu heatsync.
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