Good Cooling Solution for AMD FX-8320 CPU on stock clocks

Veda Swaroop

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I am Swaroop. I have a PC with AMD FX-8320 Processor on stock clocks.The CPU cooler that came with the CPU is not good enough to keep my cpu temperatures under control at full load. I mean when playing games like Battlefield 4, GTA 5 or editing some videos etc, the CPU temperature goes as high as 85 degrees centigrade and the whole system shuts down automatically.Due to this, i can't play games for long time or the video that i am editing is lost in the middle of the editing process.So i need a good cooling solution that keeps my cpu temperature under control at full loads.

I have no problem during normal operation of the CPU.The stock CPU cooler works fine.I came to know that CPU coolers are two types.
1.) Air coolers
2.)Water Coolers or Liquid Coolers.

I have read some other threads on this site about good cooling solutions for AMD FX-8320 processors and came to know that Cooler Master Hyper 210 Evo is best.
But i have one problem with my cabinet.I have a Zebronics cabinet which is small and found out that i can't install CM Hyper 212 Evo in my Cabinet.Due to it's huge radiator size and the 120mm fan, the CM Hyper 210 Evo can't fit in my cabinet. So please suggest me a good cooling solution which solves my problem.
 
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Assuming you can, picking up a new case will help a lot. Choosing one that has larger capacity for coolers (I'd recommend something that allows for 160mm heights) and better airflow and then picking up a new cooler would take care of your issues.

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I have the following Zebronics Cabinet :

Case Dimensions : 176 x 385 x 406 mm (W x D x H)
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Veda Swaroop

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I have ASUS M5A97 R2.0 Motherboard
 
Unfortunately it doesn't list the max size cpu cooler it can support. How did you find out your case wasn't big enough to support the Hyper 212?
Since it looks like a pretty thin case you'd likely want to stick to coolers that don't come up very high.

What motherboard, RAM, and number of RAM sticks do you have? Some coolers will overhang the RAM slots so its important to know height restrictions you might have with your RAM.
 
Since we're looking at keeping the height down
Cryorig M9 - 124.6mm height. This won't have any overhang of the RAM slots but I don't know if you can buy them in your country.
Cooler Master GeminII S524 Ver 2 - 105mm height. Taller then the NH-L12 (below) but much lighter. 47mm RAM clearance
Noctua NH-L12 - 93mm height. There is overhang of the RAM slots but if you dont have any RAM taller than 43mm it should fit just fine. Shorter than the GeminII above but much heavier.
Zalman CNPS8900 - 60mm. Lower height of the list, decent cooling. This one will overhang the first RAM slot a bit so if you have all the slots taken up it may be a problem with memory over 35mm in height.

The Cooler Master, Noctua and Zalman all push air down so cooling the VRM cooling wont be an issue. You have very large heatsinks on your VRMs so even the Cryorig wont really effect their cooling very much.
 

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I have ASUS M5A97 R2.0 Motherboard and two Corsair Vengence 4GB RAM Sticks that go into 2 RAM slots of the four.
 

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It is true.No good airflow into the case.That is what i am worried about.
 
Assuming you can, picking up a new case will help a lot. Choosing one that has larger capacity for coolers (I'd recommend something that allows for 160mm heights) and better airflow and then picking up a new cooler would take care of your issues.
 
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