I Need VRM Cooling...

[DGB]

my VRM's have no cooling on them and i want to overclock my cpu. Does anyone have any suggestions for cooling solutions? Thanks!

Motherboard- ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0

CPU FX 8350

[Electronics Wizardy]

You don't need vrm cooling to oc your cpu. Then don't make much heat.

 

Id probalby just go easy on it and don't increase voltage.

 

 

[manikyath]

i wouldnt even put an fx8350 on that motherboard even if the vrms had cooling...

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

You don't need vrm cooling to oc your cpu. Then don't make much heat.

 

Id probalby just go easy on it and don't increase voltage.

it's one of those potato boards that has a 4-pin cpu plug, it's not even made to run an fx8350...

[Enderman]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

You don't need vrm cooling to oc your cpu. Then don't make much heat.

 

Id probalby just go easy on it and don't increase voltage.

 

 

Maybe you need to ask yourself why every good quality board made for overclocking has VRM heatsinks.

[Curufinwe_wins]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

You don't need vrm cooling to oc your cpu. Then don't make much heat.

 

Id probalby just go easy on it and don't increase voltage.

Actually for an FX line you do... (well any high power cpu on a low phase count board you do, but that's pretty much only 970-chipset mobos these days).

 

@OP Not a good idea to oc on that board at all.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

7 minutes ago, DGB said:

my VRM's have no cooling on them and i want to overclock my cpu. Does anyone have any suggestions for cooling solutions? Thanks!

Motherboard- ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0

CPU FX 8350

Should be using a 990FX board for a 8350...

[Sakkura]

Just now, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Should be using a 990FX board for a 8350...

Nah, chipset has nothing to do with it. Should be using a board with good power delivery (and cooling).

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

1 minute ago, Sakkura said:

Nah, chipset has nothing to do with it. Should be using a board with good power delivery (and cooling).

But usually 990FX boards would be better built to handle the 8350. Especially for overclocking.

[SLAYR]

12 minutes ago, DGB said:

my VRM's have no cooling on them and i want to overclock my cpu. Does anyone have any suggestions for cooling solutions? Thanks!

Motherboard- ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0

CPU FX 8350

Possibly liquid cool them so they don't catch on fire(literally).

 

Get a better board like a 970/990fx board for the 8xxx line which will have the power delivery to handle the 8 cores, I am suprised that your motherboard hasn't caught fire running at stock speeds on a low end board.

[Salomon Smeke]

Aside from all the objections listed here, have you considered just attaching some small heatsinks with thermal tape? Raspberry pi ones might do you.

There are some kits available with basically all you need to install them.

[TheRandomness]

11 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

You don't need vrm cooling to oc your cpu. Then don't make much heat.

 

Id probalby just go easy on it and don't increase voltage.

 

 

You were saying?

The 8350 can be overclocked to be a 9590, you know.

[xgn]

If the mobo dosent have heatsinks at all i think you're better of buying a new mobo. Also 4 pin power delivery dosen't nessesarily means bad overclock.

My has a 6 pin connector. I have a whopping +42% cpu overclock.

[Skiiwee29]

26 minutes ago, DGB said:

my VRM's have no cooling on them and i want to overclock my cpu. Does anyone have any suggestions for cooling solutions? Thanks!

Motherboard- ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0

CPU FX 8350

if you need it, you can buy small copper heatsinks that you can use a thermal pad or thermal tape to put on top of the VRM to help keep them cool. 

 

Something like these.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Enzotech-MOS-C10-Forged-Copper-Heatsinks/dp/B004CL89D8

[Cyracus]

pffftt, all these people and their heatsinks, just put some delta fans full speed blowing all over them, that should keep them cool....just remember to buy ear plugs or noise canceling headphones, your ears will thank you (since people have whined at me twice now taking my sarcasm literally, this might work...like 32.33, repeating of course, percentage of survival)

[manikyath]

56 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

You were saying?

The 8350 can be overclocked to be a 9590, you know.

to be fully correct, the 9590 *is* an overclocked 8350.

 

and yeah... dont put 8350s in kraits, msi should be slapped for making their krait am3+ garbage

 

24 minutes ago, Cyracus said:

pffftt, all these people and their heatsinks, just put some delta fans full speed blowing all over them, that should keep them cool....just remember to buy ear plugs or noise canceling headphones, your ears will thank you (since people have whined at me twice now taking my sarcasm literally, this might work...like 32.33, repeating of course, percentage of survival)

please tell me you're kidding... even with all the cooling in the world that's a fire waiting to happen..

[TheRandomness]

Just now, manikyath said:

to be fully correct, the 9590 *is* an overclocked 8350.

 

and yeah... dont put 8350s in kraits, msi should be slapped for making their krait am3+ garbage

 

please tell me you're kidding... even with all the cooling in the world that's a fire waiting to happen..

No, the 9590 and the 8350 are from different bins, but they're very similar anyway.

[manikyath]

Just now, TheRandomness said:

No, the 9590 and the 8350 are from different bins, but they're very similar anyway.

well, it's the same silicon... since i doubt they sold a lot of 9590s i wouldnt be surprised if at least part of that bin went into 8350's.

[Cyracus]

1 hour ago, manikyath said:

please tell me you're kidding... even with all the cooling in the world that's a fire waiting to happen..

I got through the trouble of mentioning that I'm being sarcastic, I even whipped out an old dead horse to beat and... you know what, just roll the ****ing tape 

 

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, Cyracus said:

I got through the trouble of mentioning that I'm being sarcastic, I even whipped out an old dead horse to beat and... you know what, just roll the ****ing tape 

sarcasm doesnt work over the internet, it's hard to know in what magnitude you're even being sarcastic.

 

besides, it's not even about the cooling, it's about them straight up frying because they go way out of spec the moment you hook up what'll basicly turn into an FX9590 to it. there's no amount of cooling that can save a part that's so far out of spec it fails "spectacularly" (refer to msi 970 krait on fire)

[manikyath]

EDIT: please forum.. stop duplicating my posts...

[Cyracus]

56 minutes ago, manikyath said:

sarcasm doesnt work over the internet, it's hard to know in what magnitude you're even being sarcastic.

 

besides, it's not even about the cooling, it's about them straight up frying because they go way out of spec the moment you hook up what'll basicly turn into an FX9590 to it. there's no amount of cooling that can save a part that's so far out of spec it fails "spectacularly" (refer to msi 970 krait on fire)

any time someone suggests using delta fans, it's a joke, or you shouldn't listen to them anyway

[manikyath]

7 hours ago, Cyracus said:

any time someone suggests using delta fans, it's a joke, or you shouldn't listen to them anyway

yesterday we decomissioned a server at work that had 6 fans, all of which pulled a good 40 watts.

 

delta fans have their place