AMD FX-8350 Cooling (Speccy and AMD Overdrive Readings)

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Hello there, I am not new to the world of PCs in general but I am fairly new to understanding my CPU cooler and if Speccy/AMD Overdrive readings can be called accurate. I have the stock cooler that came with the AMD FX-8350 but in the last month I have upgraded from a Nvidia GeForce GTX 650ti and 450W PSU to a Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0+ and a 600W PSU. My computer used to shut down because I was running too much power through the PSU but after I upgraded to the 600W PSU, everything seemed fine. I don't overclock anything and don't force the maximum out of my graphics card when it comes to ingame settings (I prefer to have 60+fps consistently even though I know the GPU can do more). So, when my computer started shutting down again under heavy load from beefy games such as Skyrim (beefy graphics mods included), The Crew (most notably and quickly) and a few others, I figured the CPU temp was most likely where my problem was. Running the aforementioned games again while monitoring speccy, it sure enough climbed its way up to 80C before shutting down again. I then installed AMD Overdrive and (didn't let the computer shut down again because it feels wrong to push it to the point of it quitting on itself for its own good) got a (I assume) bad thermal margin reading of -9.2C consistent through the 8-cores of the 8350. I have read up on a few other articles and maybe it is time to get a fresh coat of thermal paste on but otherwise it seems that Speccy and AMD Overdrive agree and it might be time to upgrade. (Most other games that aren't so bearing on the CPU and GPU easily push the CPU to 70C nowadays so that was when I began thinking it might be time to upgrade after 3yrs... the GPU and PSU were the first to upgrade so it seems time to upgrade the CPU cooling as well).
 
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it always good to use after market cpu heat sink no matter intel or AMD over clock or not.
if you don't feel like spending much to it i understand. even a Evo212 do a good job cooling the cpu. it under 30 buk sometime. the only thing about that is the size. make sure your case will fit the oversize heat sink.
if you are not on a budget and want to do air. Noctua make very well heat sink.
both heat sink will work with very low noise on normal uses. and when it on load...i think you will hear your GPU fan over it LOL

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Indeed, It would seem that Amd stock cpu cooler is not up to the job.

You could go the water cooling route with an AIO from corsair.
Where you should see the FX-8350 cpu never go above 50c + under heavy gaming load.
A H60 or H80 i should do the job just fine.


 
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The AMD stock cooler is not up to what you are doing. A Thermal margin of lees than 10C blue is insufficient. Those temperatures are too high.

Liquid cooling is not needed. A decent budget air cooler, like the CRYORIG H& is easy to install and will being your temperatures down by a lot. If you think you might overclock in the future, then I'd get something a bit more powerful. There are only a couple of good reasons for using a small AIO liquid cooler and you don't seem to have either of them. In general, a good air cooler will be easier to install, quieter, cheaper, and more efficient than a small AIO.
 
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As I stated in my above post, I just have the stock cooler that came with the FX-8350 3yrs ago... which comes from AVC and is only listed by its part number if I even found the correct model... more simply its a 2-pipe cooler with a 80mm fan (I'm just guessing that number).
 
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I currently have an Antec Three Hundred Illusion ATX Mid-Tower with 2 120mm fans for cool air intake on the front, 1 120mm fan in the rear to get rid of the hotter air, and 1 140mm fan up top and to the rear of the case to intake more cold air. The general tower cooling itself is solid but the CPU can't keep up with the massive changes it has gone through in the last month.
 
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Indeed, Corsair water cooling was where I turned to first since my father used to have a fairly beefy computer 5-6 years ago using Corsair water-cooling. For what I want to do and can understand... I have decided to stay with air cooling until I have a rig that will require water cooling all around once I fully understand exactly how everything should work and be maintained in such a state of cooling. I have decided to purchase the Cooler Master Hyper 612 ver. 2 as my upgrade for CPU cooling. It should arrive tomorrow and I will have it installed Friday since Thursdays are one of my busier days. I shall post one last time for the new readings and how the rig is running but otherwise thank you to everyone who gave any suggestions or help to my topic.

 
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So, after installing the Cooler Master Hyper 612 ver. 2, the CPU temp has gone no higher than 40C when pushing the GPU and CPU to the best of their capabilities on any of the most taxing games that I have. The cooler fits nice and snug with the width of the Antec Three Hundred Illusion Case that I have and there is plenty of room between the Heat Sink and my 970. Thank y'all for helping me understand my issue and I'll be around here whenever something else comes up in the future.
 
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it always good to use after market cpu heat sink no matter intel or AMD over clock or not.
if you don't feel like spending much to it i understand. even a Evo212 do a good job cooling the cpu. it under 30 buk sometime. the only thing about that is the size. make sure your case will fit the oversize heat sink.
if you are not on a budget and want to do air. Noctua make very well heat sink.
both heat sink will work with very low noise on normal uses. and when it on load...i think you will hear your GPU fan over it LOL

 
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