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JacTech17
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34 minutes ago, JacTech17 said:

hey so i have a AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Vishera and an MSI Gaming 970 Gaming  motherboard with a SAPPHIRE NITRO Radeon R9 Fury 100379NTOC+SR 4GB 4096-Bit HBM with like 7 or 8 fans i was wondering if its ok to overclock the cpu with this setup or should i change the stock CPU cooler 

If you are using the stock CPU cooler, then it is best to get an aftermarket cooling before overclocking.

You can still do some low/mild overclocking with the stock cooler...but you won't get far.

 

Given how AM3+ and the FX-8350 is a pretty old platform, I would not spend too much $$ on an aftermarket CPU heatsink.

$30 ~ $50 (USD) would be ideal.

  • Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO, or the updated 212X
  • Arctic Freezer 33 (many colours available)
  • Cryorig H7
  • Cryorig M9a

 

The MSi 970 GAMING is not the greatest AM3+ motherboard out there, but certainly not the worst -- more or less middle-of-the-road.

 

@JacTech17 what program/software are you using to measure temperatures?

Do you mind posting a screenshot?

 

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hey so i have a AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Vishera and an MSI Gaming 970 Gaming  motherboard with a SAPPHIRE NITRO Radeon R9 Fury 100379NTOC+SR 4GB 4096-Bit HBM with like 7 or 8 fans i was wondering if its ok to overclock the cpu with this setup or should i change the stock CPU cooler 

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34 minutes ago, JacTech17 said:

hey so i have a AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Vishera and an MSI Gaming 970 Gaming  motherboard with a SAPPHIRE NITRO Radeon R9 Fury 100379NTOC+SR 4GB 4096-Bit HBM with like 7 or 8 fans i was wondering if its ok to overclock the cpu with this setup or should i change the stock CPU cooler 

If you are using the stock CPU cooler, then it is best to get an aftermarket cooling before overclocking.

You can still do some low/mild overclocking with the stock cooler...but you won't get far.

 

Given how AM3+ and the FX-8350 is a pretty old platform, I would not spend too much $$ on an aftermarket CPU heatsink.

$30 ~ $50 (USD) would be ideal.

  • Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO, or the updated 212X
  • Arctic Freezer 33 (many colours available)
  • Cryorig H7
  • Cryorig M9a

 

The MSi 970 GAMING is not the greatest AM3+ motherboard out there, but certainly not the worst -- more or less middle-of-the-road.

 

@JacTech17 what program/software are you using to measure temperatures?

Do you mind posting a screenshot?

 

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54 minutes ago, JacTech17 said:

hey so i have a AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Vishera and an MSI Gaming 970 Gaming  motherboard with a SAPPHIRE NITRO Radeon R9 Fury 100379NTOC+SR 4GB 4096-Bit HBM with like 7 or 8 fans i was wondering if its ok to overclock the cpu with this setup or should i change the stock CPU cooler 

Fyi on my old fx 8320 a hyper 212+ got me to 4.4Ghz and a 240mm aio liquid cooler got me 4.7 which was the max stable i could get.

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