looking for advice about cpu cooling

Nightmare24 · Apr 5, 2017

could anyone help me out looking to buy a AIO water cooler for my fm2+ mobo but i dunno what will fit any tips. cheers

i did buy a coolmaster hyper d92 but it didnt fit

im looking at these 2 coolers

Deepcool Maelstrom 120T

DeepCool DP-MAELSTROM 120

kol12 · Apr 5, 2017

What case do you have? Why didn't the coolmaster hyper d92 fit?

Nightmare24 · Apr 5, 2017

kol12 :

the case is fine it was the motherboard it had stuff in the way where the mounting frame for the pins go in
my mobo is a cheap asrock fm2a88m-hd+_r2.0

kol12 · Apr 5, 2017

Knowing what case you have will help with choosing the right size cooler. What exactly on the motherboard was in the way? This would also help.

Any of these water coolers are compatible with your motherboard, it just depends which brand your interested in and what your budget is...

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/cpu-cooler/#c=23,26&sort=d6&W=10120,10140,10240

Ecky · Apr 5, 2017

I'll be honest, I would not spend that kind of money on cooling for any FM2+ CPU. Even the best FM2+ chip is outperformed by the $60 Pentium G4560 in just about everything, so spending $60+ just on cooling to get maybe another 5% performance from overclocking, if that, doesn't strike me as a good idea.

Nightmare24 · Apr 5, 2017

Ecky :

not looking to overclock just my temps are bad the cpu is quite fast

Nightmare24 · Apr 5, 2017

kol12 :

My case is a coodmax f8b budget for a cooler is about $60-$75 spent most my money on a gtx and a ssd

Ecky · Apr 5, 2017

What are your temps?

Nightmare24 · Apr 5, 2017

Ecky :

pretty high 80c-90c full load idle 65c-70c i live in queensland australia so its hot here 80% of the time

Ecky · Apr 5, 2017

FM2+ CPUs don't have normal temperature sensors, so you can't possibly have those readings. If you're seeing a degrees C reading, it's nonsense. Only AMD Overdrive can give you the temperature, and the reading it gives is in "thermal margin". Any number greater than zero is good, because thermal margin is how close you are to overheating.

What does Overdrive report?

Nightmare24 · Apr 5, 2017

Ecky :

never ran a overdrive test just used a app called CAM ill download overdrive and run a test

Nightmare24 · Apr 5, 2017

amd overdrive says my idle temps are min 48 max 61 avg 57

Ecky · Apr 5, 2017

Those are great temps. When you load it, it should go down, but as long as it's above zero it's fine.

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