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How bad is the AMD stock cooler?

  • 13-06-2013 5:10pm
    #1
    Champ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 677 ✭✭✭


    Hi,
    I will possibly be putting together a budget PC build with an FX-8350 and was wondering what to expect of the stock cooler?

    I won't be overclocking and the PC will probably be used for medium gaming.
    I wouldn't be too obsessed about quietness (for reference I find the stock Intel coolers fine in that regard) though hearing tales of AMD stock coolers sounding like hairdryers / vacuum cleaners is making me consider an aftermarket cooler. Though I suspect in some of these horror tales a BIOS configured to run the fan at a high RPM is responsible?


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  • #2
    BloodBath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,299 ✭✭✭✭BloodBath


    Why not buy an 8320 and get a good cooler with it? You could easily set it to a minimum of 8350 speeds and higher if you wanted. Something like a coolermaster hyper 212 evo or a thermalright macho should net you around 4.5ghz.

    http://www.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=59387&agid=669

    http://www.hardwareversand.de/Intel+AMD/67114/Thermalright+HR-02+Macho+Rev.A+%28BW%29.article


  • #3
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    Champ wrote: »
    Hi,
    I will possibly be putting together a budget PC build with an FX-8350 and was wondering what to expect of the stock cooler?

    I won't be overclocking and the PC will probably be used for medium gaming.
    I wouldn't be too obsessed about quietness (for reference I find the stock Intel coolers fine in that regard) though hearing tales of AMD stock coolers sounding like hairdryers / vacuum cleaners is making me consider an aftermarket cooler. Though I suspect in some of these horror tales a BIOS configured to run the fan at a high RPM is responsible?

    The stock cooler is fine there not that bad at all tbh there a little noisey. but syre they have a job to do


  • #4
    dazberry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,152 ✭✭✭dazberry


    I ran stock cooling on a Phenom x6 for a few years - with cnq enabled, so for the most part it was fine. But I moved house and whatever way I rearranged my setup I started to notice it a lot more to the point of it beginning to annoy me. Was looking at reviews and the like for a replaced but in the end just picked up a €30 Coolmaster Hyper TX3 EVO in Peats and it's so much quieter :)

    D.


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