FX-8320 - What cooler to buy?

Jabba the Hutt · Jul 23, 2014

My temps are high I would say - 72C w/ stock cooler (NOT core temp) with Arctic Alumina paste after 1 minute of Prime95 and the fan was at 6600RPM!). It is very noisy. Core temp didn't pass 62C. Ambient temperature is 27C.
I played some games (GRID 2, GTA IV) and I'm pretty pleased w/ the results. Note that I'm on Win7.
What cooler do you recommend me to buy? My budget is 40$.

boosted1g · Jul 23, 2014

Cooler master hyper 212 evo, arugably best air cooler out there. Best bang for buck hands down

Jabba the Hutt · Jul 23, 2014

Yeah... I heard of it. It doesn't have any competitors in its price range?

boosted1g · Jul 23, 2014

Its a $30 cooler that meets or excedes the $50-70 air coolers, no reason to try to go for a competitor.

Jabba the Hutt · Jul 23, 2014

Ok. And what about the "only 4 cores" problem?

boosted1g · Jul 23, 2014

what only 4 cores problem are you refering to?

Jabba the Hutt · Jul 23, 2014

My 8 core CPU is seen as a 4 core one.

boosted1g · Jul 23, 2014

That is because your 8 core cpu is a 4 core cpu.

FX series "8 core" cpus are 4 physical cores each core having 2 logical cores giving it a total of 8 logical cores (similar to hyper threading). Thus your cpu physially, is a quad core.

Dark Lord of Tech · Jul 23, 2014

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
cpuz

Jabba the Hutt · Jul 24, 2014

I managed to get 8 cores! I did some research in my motherboard's BIOS and put an option to AUTO and it worked! So, the CM Hyper 212 EVO is the way to go?

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