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StuMandrake

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Hello there,

This is my first post. I've spent lots of hrs reading posts and trawling through old threads which have been very helpful in helping me during the component selection process of my latest build/upgrade. So Thanks! But now I need specific help.

Basically I need to know how many fans/how much cooling I need in my build.

AMD FX-8350
AMD Radeon R9 280X Sapphire Vapor-X 3GB TRI-X OC Edition
2x Corsair 4GB 1600MHz DDR3 RAM
Asus M5A78L-M/USB3
XFX XXX Edition 750W
Seagate ST31000524AS 1TB
Western Digital WDC WD10EZEX 1TB

All of those components are nicely housed inside a BitFenix Prodigy M case.

At the moment I only have a Zalman heatsink on the CPU
A Corsair 140mm fan as exhaust at the back of the case and I have 2x120mm fans which I have in the top of the case pulling air in directly onto the GPU. Well they are working yet until I get them power.

Anyway, once they are working will this be sufficient cooling.

I will be playing games on high/ultra settings but won't be overclocking anything and not adding any more GPUs etc.

Any info advice would be great

Cheers
Stu
 
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jaimelmiel
You will need more than a stock cooler for your FX 8350.the stock coolers do not cut on 6 and 8 core cpu's especially when you game intensively or run programs that stress your cpu.. You may beed some vrm cooling since you have no vrm neatsink and you cpu may be as High as 4.2 GHz. That is if you have throttling problems. Which you may or may not. I hope you do not. the best cheap boards for the FX 8350 are Fx990 chipset Boards. Some 970 chipsets with an 8+2 power phase are good. Yours has a 4+1 power phase. It is good you are not overclocking. But again your cpu is a higher than normal clocked cpu.
You need at least a Coolermaster Hyper 212 EVO cpu cooler or better.
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You will need more than a stock cooler for your FX 8350.the stock coolers do not cut on 6 and 8 core cpu's especially when you game intensively or run programs that stress your cpu.. You may beed some vrm cooling since you have no vrm neatsink and you cpu may be as High as 4.2 GHz. That is if you have throttling problems. Which you may or may not. I hope you do not. the best cheap boards for the FX 8350 are Fx990 chipset Boards. Some 970 chipsets with an 8+2 power phase are good. Yours has a 4+1 power phase. It is good you are not overclocking. But again your cpu is a higher than normal clocked cpu.
You need at least a Coolermaster Hyper 212 EVO cpu cooler or better.
 
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great thanks. I have the prodigy M case so my psu is in the front (psu fan drawing air in)
My gpu is right at the top and Ive heard some people say its good to have top drawing air in straight onto it.??!

how does one get multiple fans running? ie where do I plug the fan power in? was thinking of getting a 5.25" bay fan controller. but is there another way?


 
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Hi mate, thanks for your reply.
I was saying in my original post I have a Zalman cooler on the CPU. Not stock cooler
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/zalman-cnps8000b-ultra-quiet-low-profile-cpu-cooler-for-lga1366-1155-1156-775-and-amd-fm1-am3plus-am
That one. is that ok??

Oh also, how can I test if I have throttling problems??





 
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Your zalman doesn't look much better than the stock. It may be a little better. If it is using a 92mm fan
or smaller I would not us it. You need something like the Coolermaster Hyper 212 evo or better. You should not have throttling problems as long as you do not oc.
 
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The Prodigy M, which is different then its predecessor that I've used before, uses reverse flow cooling, it draws cool air in from the top and pushes warm air out the bottom and rear. This is not my favorite design, I'd rather help the natural flow than fight it...

Your XFX psu sucks air from the interior and pushes it out the bottom which is as it should be for this case.

You seems to have everything correct fan-wise.
 
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