AMD FX 8350

Doomedspeed said:
What motherboard have you got?
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This is really good question because if you have an early am3+ board or a budget one with bad vrms it will not be able to handle the amount of power this chips need when it gets over clocked.

Thus if you have one of these boards there will be no point to get a cooler as when you over clock it your mother board will just throttle it back any way.
 
swiftmetal said:
This is really good question because if you have an early am3+ board or a budget one with bad vrms it will not be able to handle the amount of power this chips need when it gets over clocked.

Thus if you have one of these boards there will be no point to get a cooler as when you over clock it your mother board will just throttle it back any way.
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Im not just a pretty face. :)
 
Doomedspeed said:
Im not just a pretty face. :)
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Ha.

Assuming the board's up to it, for air cooling I'd strongly recommend the Be Quiet Dark Rock Pro 2. It can keep my 4770K cool at 1.35v (65-70C at load), and people usually say you can only do that under water.

You only need this level of cooling if you want 4.8GHz or higher though.

If it's a poorer quality board, you may be limited to 4.2-4.3GHz overclocks, in which case a £25 cooler is more than enough. The Coolermaster Hyper 212 for example can do 4.5GHz.
 
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I am using Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler with 3 fans.

If you go with a big air cooler check that your cooler fits in your case and it clears your memory with the fan.
 
teppic said:
Ha.

Assuming the board's up to it, for air cooling I'd strongly recommend the Be Quiet Dark Rock Pro 2. It can keep my 4770K cool at 1.35v (65-70C at load), and people usually say you can only do that under water.

You only need this level of cooling if you want 4.8GHz or higher though.

If it's a poorer quality board, you may be limited to 4.2-4.3GHz overclocks, in which case a £25 cooler is more than enough. The Coolermaster Hyper 212 for example can do 4.5GHz.
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Maybe you've got a lucky 4770K there?
Custom water can't keep my 4770k under 70 during Prime at 1.17v.
I think Haswell chips can be a bit of a lottery both in terms of overclocking and temperatures. So possibly not the best thing to base the performance of a cooler on?
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
Maybe you've got a lucky 4770K there?
Custom water can't keep my 4770k under 70 during Prime at 1.17v.
I think Haswell chips can be a bit of a lottery both in terms of overclocking and temperatures. So possibly not the best thing to base the performance of a cooler on?
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Sounds more like you have a bad chip. The cooler is excellent, check the reviews.
 
teppic said:
Sounds more like you have a bad chip. The cooler is excellent, check the reviews.
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did you take into account the BAD temp sensors on AMD chips? 8 cores @ 4.5 under 70c is a no no on air. unless the chip is shouting off core as they do under full load
 
But who said anything about my cooler on an 8350 at 4.5GHz?

You can definitely run an 8350 at that speed on air anyway, loads of people do so.
 
teppic said:
Sounds more like you have a bad chip. The cooler is excellent, check the reviews.
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Yeah, I think mine is pretty poor. Seems to clock ok-ish, doing 4.3GHz @ 1.17v, but gets hot even with watercooling.
So it sounds like the cooler is much better than custom water based on our temps.
Which to be fair I doubt it is, hence my comment that Haswell (and IB) chips might have a larger temperature varience than chips that were constructed 'properly' (i.e. with solder).
 
Your CPU is likely getting far too hot. I've tried the 4770K under a decent £25 air cooler as well, and temps got to 80C above 1.2v.
 
Corsair H60 works just as good as the H100 or go H80 and have a double thick rad but at the width of the H60
 
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