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In order to squeeze the most performance out of that 8320, you'd have to buy a new motherboard, a 990fx one, that would have a beefier/ more stable power phase design- anything designed to be compatible with a 9590 would work.

 

I won't tell you how to spend your money, however...

 

If you're already buying a new motherboard, why not spring for the much higher performance intel lineup, or wait to buy a zen processor and motherboard, because you're almost there in price. Especially because selling your old motherboard and cpu should still get you a decent amount of money, but maybe not enough to entirely fund a switch to a more powerful platform, and using the money that you would be using to buy custom watercooling instead would definitely push you over the edge.

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Hey guys, first of all sorry for my bad english, I hope it is good enough to ask you something about watercooling because I am a newbie to this.

 

My actual system is:

AMD FX8320 @4.3Ghz (Corsair H100i)

AMD R9 290x MATRIX @1080Mhz (Raijintek Morpheus)

8gb Gskill memory (1333mhz)

ASRock 970 Performance

bequiet straight Power e7 700w (oldest part in this PC ^^)

Samsung Evo 850 SSD (250gb)

some 1TB HDD's

 

I'm planing to build a custom water cooling loop for my system with a single 480mm radiator at the top of my case for cpu and gpu, is that enough? Are the components even worth watercooling or are they too old to get a benefit of more OC? Just that you know, I don't care about silence, my PC is in another room and could be as loud as a starting Jet if the Performance is okay, I only want a water cooled system to get better OC Results.

 

Thats all I guess, if I forgot something feel free to ask me and thanks in advance for your amswers :)

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Tbh it wouldn't be worth spending the money on a custom loop for your PC. No offense but I wouldn't spend money on the parts for a FX 8320, maybe the 290x but even then I would just let your system run and when you get a new PC, splurge out on the water cooling parts you would of got for this PC on your next one.

 

 

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45 minutes ago, MadMurl0c said:

Hey guys, first of all sorry for my bad english, I hope it is good enough to ask you something about watercooling because I am a newbie to this.

 

My actual system is:

AMD FX8320 @4.3Ghz (Corsair H100i)

AMD R9 290x MATRIX @1080Mhz (Raijintek Morpheus)

8gb Gskill memory (1333mhz)

ASRock 970 Performance

bequiet straight Power e7 700w (oldest part in this PC ^^)

Samsung Evo 850 SSD (250gb)

some 1TB HDD's

 

I'm planing to build a custom water cooling loop for my system with a single 480mm radiator at the top of my case for cpu and gpu, is that enough? Are the components even worth watercooling or are they too old to get a benefit of more OC? Just that you know, I don't care about silence, my PC is in another room and could be as loud as a starting Jet if the Performance is okay, I only want a water cooled system to get better OC Results.

 

Thats all I guess, if I forgot something feel free to ask me and thanks in advance for your amswers :)

Not worth it at all.  Your cpu will end up frying the motherboard,  and the 290x with that massive air cooler really shouldn't be running that hot atm anyway. I think you would be better off changing out cpu motherboard and ram as your next upgrade.

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AMD Threadripper 5990WX@4.8Ghz

Asus Zenith III Extreme

Asrock OC Formula 7970XTX Quadfire

G.Skill Ripheartout X OC 7000Mhz C28 DDR5 4X16GB  

Super Flower Power Leadex 2000W Psu's X2

Harrynowl's 775/771 OC and mod guide: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/232325-lga775-core2duo-core2quad-overclocking-guide/ http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/365998-mod-lga771-to-lga775-cpu-modification-tutorial/

ProKoN haswell/DC OC guide: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/41234-intel-haswell-4670k-4770k-overclocking-guide/

 

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1 hour ago, MadMurl0c said:

I'm planing to build a custom water cooling loop for my system with a single 480mm radiator at the top of my case for cpu and gpu

Don't do that. Please, don't do that. Put that money towards a new CPU and mobo instead. The 8320 is hardly worth its weight in scrap metal at this point.

I enjoy buying junk and sinking more money than it's worth into it to make it less junk.

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In order to squeeze the most performance out of that 8320, you'd have to buy a new motherboard, a 990fx one, that would have a beefier/ more stable power phase design- anything designed to be compatible with a 9590 would work.

 

I won't tell you how to spend your money, however...

 

If you're already buying a new motherboard, why not spring for the much higher performance intel lineup, or wait to buy a zen processor and motherboard, because you're almost there in price. Especially because selling your old motherboard and cpu should still get you a decent amount of money, but maybe not enough to entirely fund a switch to a more powerful platform, and using the money that you would be using to buy custom watercooling instead would definitely push you over the edge.

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Thanks for your answers, I guess I'll wait for how the new Zen's perform and buy one of these or switch back to intel. Could I buy a used xeon for my system or do I habe to buy an i5/i7 (I dont like buying a Cpu with graphics card integrated if I'm never going to use it :/ )

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If that happens I still got my old GTX 560.

I think I'll just wait for Zen and then decide to buy one of them or an intel.

Thanks for your answers, you saved me from wasting much money ^^

 

 

Can someone close this thread or can I do it on my own? Sorry I'm new :D

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