I have 3 builds in the house, 2 of them have stock cpu coolers.
7870k with the stock cpu cooler. quiet heat-pipe design and does a great job.
8320e with stock aluminum heat sink. This one shocked me how quiet it is. I was expecting the fx cooler, They really improved the casting(more fins) and the fan. I am curious if it can handle OC'ing:)
They really aren't that loud on APU's. Maybe if you crank em all the way to 100% sure. But then so are my JetFlo fans at 100%.
If you really don't want to cough up 20 bucks for a Gammaxx 300 then at least get some aftermarket thermal paste.
You'll be able to do a small OC.
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There's a reason why aftermarket coolers are always used for OC. They work a hell of a lot better than the stock ones and generally don't even cost that much. Yeah you can probably do a little bit of overclocking on a stock cooler but if you want good overclocks get an aftermarket cooler
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I'm horrified, whyyy???
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True, and will be on my short list when I get the "gotta upgrade" bug. 4+1 power phase on the 8320 limits OC'ing to 140 watts and would like to keep it at 125 or 4 ghz, whichever I hit first.
A few months I want to get something nice like noctua or Zalman low profile. I was expecting the stock one to be as bad as the one on my Phenom 8350 and was flat out surprised.
@SoulFallen, It was a two trip each way for the parts and leaves an upgrade path.:)
Because the 8350 is factory overclocked 8320. I assume this is a mini ITX build?
Asrock 970m Pro3, I wanted to do one more build and promised wifey I would keep it under 400. I had 8 gig of ram in the house so that helped. Wanted a pure Linux build also.
Rest of the build:
LEPA case for 30 bucks
EVGA 600B for 50 w/ 20 buck mail in
WD 1 tb 50 bucks
8320e with MB for 125 w/ 15 buck mail in
GTX 770 reference card/open box for 135
Ram is EVGA 2400 I bought a few months ago for 50 and forgot to return.
OS Mint 17.3
If your case can fit it, you can never go wrong with a cooler master evo 212.
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The Evo 212 is a tall one, but I've always had good luck with it.
I've got a Corsair H60 liquid cooler on my 8370e right now, and honestly I think even that is holding the CPU back. Its able to keep up at 4.6 ghz but any higher and temps get uncomfortable for me.
I actually had better luck with the massive Raijintek heatsink which is huge, but pretty cheap for what it is.
If I was going to do something low profile I think I'd been looking at Noctua.
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First before I think about an OC I need a better way to monitor cpu temps, these temps are not believable, reboot into bios shows 38 C. This is a screenshot after a round of csgo
I was using the stock cooler that came with my AMD 7850k and didn't notice a change in fan noise coming from my system after changing changing fan settings to silent in BIOS. I also didn't notice a change in fan noise while playing World of Warcraft at 1600x900 with main settings bar set to good. The cpu did run a bit hot usually in the high 60 degree's Celsius range while playing WOW.
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