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Have an 8350, was going to get a h80I in my case, since a h100I wouldn't fit without a mod, BUT I was told that a high end air cooler would be better, so i'm thinking of spending around £60-80 on an air cooler, any recommendation?

Currently @ 4.5ghz 1.32v and i'm getting to 60 degrees, want that lower so I can over clock more, my current heatsink was a 92mm £30 for a small case, upgraded since then.

Thanks for the help!
 
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It's a very long list of options tbh, there's lots of big air coolers and many have the same kind of design and performance. Some will be quieter than others, some a couple degrees cooler, some come with ugly colours and some will be a bit cheaper. the best one for you will be down to personal preference

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-009-PT
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-011-NC
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-007-BQ
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-099-AK
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-078-TR
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-008-RT

those are a few examples, bare in mind that a lot of those also have varius models with different fans which you should consider. some fans can also be mounted in certain directions for AMD so that might play a part as well. O and watch out for ram clearance, with my silver arrow I can only have 1 stick of ram in the way I have the fans mounted

edit. also might want to consider one of these maybe? http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=595&catid=678
I'm not a great fan of the all in one closed loop coolers (don't like the risk) but for those prices it's worth thinking about.
 
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How much room do you have between the CPU and the side panel?

Your current chip has a decent clock considering the low voltage. Hitting 4.7 or 4.8 should be easy with a better air cooler. are you hitting 60 on stress tests or every day usage?

If it's just when you run prime or whatever, then i would use your current cooler and clock higher until your every day usage temp is nearing the 60 mark.

I have mostly used custom water for my own builds in last few years and the builds i do for others usually involve huge cases which can accommodate Goliath monster coolers or just standard stock cooler (eeew). I don't know if you can fit any of the beast coolers in your case (deffo not the biggest ones).
 
Forget prime temps, unless your PC is mainly for finding out very large prime numbers.

You likely can get your 4.7 with a small voltage bump. Test with games rather than prime for stability too. If its prime stable at 4.5 and at your current voltage, i'd be surprised if your cooler couldn't let you hit 4.7 safely game stable. Though sometimes you do hit a wall with voltage and it requires a hefty bump to get past some numbers.

Its free to test at least, give it a go!
 
Will do! I doubt the 8350 will ever go near to 100% load anyway.

If you would reccomend a cooler/watercoolers, what would it be? I know it's fine at what I have it, but still rather it be quiet then my https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-008-SV

It is 92mm since I had a micro ATX build, now I have a bigger case, but high profile ram.


Edit - got to 4.7 on 1.38125v but goes to 65 degrees on prime. For gaming that should be ok?
 
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Perfectly fine. 65 prime is loads of wiggle when you think about gaming temps.

Also, great pun on the 'be quiet' i will give you 1 internetz point regardless if that was intended!

Cant really recommend a cooler without knowing how big air cooler you can fit in your case. I am not a fan of closed loop coolers at all and custom cooling is far too expensive for the sake of noise when you have already achieved your overclock.

There is a cooler comparison floating around here (in the stickies of this sub forum maybe?). Would just go down the list and get a ruler, searching specs online and seeing which ones will fit your case.
 
Okay that's great.

Just an overclocking question now, I did my overclocking by changing the NB frequency, it has increased everything.

Here is a picture of my CPU-Z and my Ram, does this look right? is my chip a good one?

Stupid questions, but i'm new to all this.

It has been stable for the last 2 days!

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edit- Shall I put the HT link and ram to stock?
 
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If it's stable, things are fine.

If it was my chip and i was overclocking i would switch off CoolnQuiet in the bios. The multiplier reads 7-21, so i assume this is due to coolnquiet being on. I have always done this for stability sake but tbh, plenty of people still keep CnQ on and overclock perfectly well.

Clocking on the bus can net you some great returns when clocking on fx chips, found bus clocking far easier to find high clocks than jsut relying on multiplier. I will say that clocking by upping the bus can give problems if your increased memory speed causes instability. Your RAM was originally 1600Mhz but the new speed has it running at 1800Mhz, so not too much higher and considering your timings, its not surprising that you haven't seen any memory errors or isntability as of yet.

I am no fx expert and i am sure many on this forum would have their own ways of doing things that differ from mine. I usually knock the ram multiplier down to around 1600Mhz or as close as possible after upping the bus and then tighten timings. No need for this really, you wont notice improvements without really measuring them on benchmarks. Then i aim to have the NB frequency about three times the Dram frequency (so RAM which is 1600Mhz i aim for 2400Mhz on the NB as DDR stands for Double Data Rate and 1600/2=800Mhz). Never gave HT link much attention, just has to be higher than NB freq. Again, all of this wont net you an improvement you could notice without benchmarking though. If what you got works for you now, might be best to not mess about too much in case you lose your pretty decent first clock attempt.

If your current clock is stable, your chip great! Out of interest though, how long did you test the CPU for and with what games?

There is a great, almost 100 page thread on clocking 8320/50's which stays active and has tons of info and other peoples tips and settings. I am a little sad i don't get to play with my FX's as much now my 4770k is paired up with the good GPU.

Enjoy!:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18544198
 
Ah, this is very helpful to me! Thanks so much, the only issue is that I have every power saving state turned off, what does the 7-21 part mean? It stays like that even though i'm playing games.

Ran prime95 for about 3 hours, been playing watchdogs for the past day, played Crysis 3, assassins creed 4, this was for the past few days.


Edit- Could it be due to me overclocking via the other way instead of the multiplier?

This is it in coretemp

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Drop the HT divider down a notch as at nearly 3GHz it's too high. The NB is fine but any more will need voltage increases on the CPU-NB.

If you want to overclock further than start looking into using the appropriate clock dividers for each clock.
 
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