Should I get this one and strap a liquid cooler too it and overclock it or just spend the extra and buy the 8320 and use the stock cooler with it?
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It depends on what you plan on doing with your system. If you're just gaming, a 6300 will be fine. If you get a decent video card to match. But if you use a lot of programs that take advantage of multiple cores like the Adobe creative suite or video editing programs, you will definitely see a boost with 8 cores vs 6. But with the 6300 you can get away with buying a cheaper motherboard. Where as with the 8 core FX CPU's you need to get a better mobo with decent power delivery and cooling(990fx chipsets). So that will cost more too. I've been using my FX 6300 for 1080p gaming, and light content creation (making/editing videos for youtube) for about a year now. And it's been great. I bought an aftermarket Air cooler. I found that the stock cooler would run hot. Personally, now I'm looking to invest in a Corsair H80i. It's a decent all in one liquid cooler. And it even uses the stock AMD mounting hardware. (so no backplate installation needed. Bonus!)
1874749
Yes, but I would suggest getting an after market cooler. Especially if you plan to do any overclocking at all. The stock cooler isn't that great and this particular chip runs hot under load.
393196
Yes, but if you are planning on overclocking, or even pushing the CPU pretty hard, I WOULD get an aftermarket cooler. You don't need to go overboard with water cooling (although Corsair offers some nice closed loop systems that work very well), but you SHOULD go with something sufficient. I like the EVO 212 air cooler for a cheap, well made, and good performing air cooling solution. Noctua makes one like the 212 that works very well also, but at a higher cost (much better fan, but as far as the cooler itself, not so sure about performance difference).
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The included fan is a 3-pin. And it is quite loud. I replaced it with a 4-pin pwm (with equivalent size and air flow) from Cooler Master. It is much quiter, but this cooler only performs OK for the amount of money I spent in total. Luckily that build will not be overclocked, and I can be happy with the definite improvement over the stock part. It will cool your fx-8350 according to the specs on the box, but I would not use this on a high performance CPU like yours over something like the CM Hyper 212 unless your case cannot fit a tall heatsink.
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I'm not familiar with watercooling but with good air circulation in your case, a cool room and adequate case fans you should be fine to overclock safely even with the stock heatsink as long as you aren't pushing it past 4ghz. Be sure to monitor core/mobo temps until you know how your rig will perform, there is abundant software around to do so. Also keep in mind the EVO 212 cooler is HUGE. It may be difficult to fit depending on your mobo and case.
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nooooo way, the standard cooling barley covers the cpu without overclocking. And remeber, when you start changing your processor's settings you invalidating the warritny. The fans they provide really arent engineered to maintain that sort of heat. However, you can purchase a nice cheap cooler master aftermarket fan like i did. It cost me 15 bucks and is actually better than watercooling which can be coslty to obtain and costly to clean up if you screw it up
1685247
Yes, it comes with an AMD fan/heat sink that works very well. If you plan to overclock, then you should probably look for an after-market set up.
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AMD Rated it at 3.10 GHz to 4.00 GHz Max Turbo. Some People push it to 4.20 but it is not recomended. The new 8320 is rated 3.5 GHz and the new 8350 is 4.0 Ghz at normal speed. Seems there is a problem with the 35nm Process exceeding 4.2 GHz stabily. {Info from AMD News Flash from AMD} I have one running at 4.0 GHz with a Corsair CWC-H100 Water Cooler.
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Depends. Do what everyone here says and pair it with a good GPU - I am using an EVGA 670 FTW and have had no trouble with any game maxed out. The only issue you may run into, and it is slight, many games are coded to use 1,2, or 4 cores. The 8350 is not as peppy in regards to single-core tasks. It's like having a V-8 engine but only being able to use 1 or 2 cylinders. To find out which games can take full advantage of all 8 cores, my suggestion would be to Google "(game name) CPU Core Usage" or something like that. Hope that helps.
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Don't put an 8 core CPU in this, especially the 8350. Believe me I researched it myself and the truth is this board is decent but it can't handle the power consumption of an 8350. An AMD 990 series board would be safer. You'll be fine with an r9 290 though, this board should handle any video card. Just make sure you got a power supply with enough wattage.
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Yes it will fit. I have a NZXT Vulcan case and have both the 200mm side fan and NH L12 with both fans on. With room to spare too. However, if you are doing high overclocks with that 8350 you would need a more substantial cooler as it is only rated to run on 95watt cpu's and the 8350 is 125 watt. Cheers.
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The only difference is their cooling solution and which brand you prefer. Factory overclocks are very low and you can easily increase them over what is done at the factory yourself. Basically just look for the price and brand you want, the clock speed shouldn't be a factor.
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This one is better than the 212 evo but it is depend on the power supply that you have to support for the liquid cooler the H75 have 2 fan so it cool down your cpu faster. That is my opinion.
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Depends - aAre you going to overclock the CPU? - if no then the intel stock cooler works just fine; however, if you want to over clock and run this CPU to its higher performance capabilities, then an after market cooler needed - liquid is not absolutely needed but the cooler u keep that CPU the longer it will last in high performance.
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The stock ps won't be sufficient. This is an excellent box, but you will need more juice to take advantage of that cpu. You'll will never be able to add a water cooler for that I7.
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Go with an a8-5600k trinity. It's the same price. You could also go with an fm2+ socket a10 kavari core.
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Max temp on this processor is 62c, for a longer lasting lifespan you don't want it above 58c under full load, I thought you should know this so you can make a fair judgement. The stock heatsink is not going to OC and keep you in that temp range under full load. The coolermaster hyper 212 is an excellent low cost replacement, I personally use a zalman 9900max but its a bit pricey for air cooling. When you OC this chip it can pull up to and a bit over 300 watts on 12v. Save your components the stress and spend a bit for a hyper 212