I am thinking about buying a new processor, the FX 9590. I heard i gets quite hot and i am not sure what cooling unit would be good for it. I'm using a Crosshair V formula Z motherboard. I would like to go for air cooling but if i have to, liquid cooling could work to. Noctua seems good but i don't know what model is the best. I am currently running a FX 8350 using a Noctua NH-U9B SE2. When the NH-U9B SE2 arrived i noticed that it would face the fans up and down not sidways. This kinda broke the airflow so i had to buy a special mount-kit thing that would turn it 90 degrees. I find that the current noctua isn't doing a good enough job cooling my 8350. Also i have a fractal define r4 case. So what cooling is the best option?
Thanks for any help!
The 9590 really isn't worth the money, otherwise how is your case set up? the Noctua should be fine for cooling.
You could also just go to like an 8320/70e which uses less power and will run cooler.
Well, i have my graphics card in the first slot (Asus R9 280x). Is there a big difference between the 8350 and the 8370?
The best cooling option for the 9590 is a different processor.
No, seriously, why would you want a 200 TDP processor? That's insane, I don't know what AMD was thinking making that. You already have the 8350, arguably the best non-APU processor AMD has right now till Zen. Just OC it to 5GHz and call it a day. The 9590 is 4.7 and I wouldn't even try to OC it since its stock temperatures are already insane.
I'm pretty sure the 9590 was made just so overclockers have kinda guaranteed better chips.
Just stick with the 8350 that you have right now. The 9590 is essentially an 8350/20/00 that has been cherry picked for 5ghz not at 4ghz. If upgrading go to Intel.
The e parts have a lower TDP of 95W I believe, so they just naturally run cooler.
I meant more your case fan set up, maybe where the PC is located, how the thermal paste was applied.
What do you mean? Made specifically for intense cooling to OC the 9590?
No its not. The 9590 is just cherry picked, good luck getting 5.5 ghz on that chip.
Yeah, well it feels like to much of an effort to change to intel. I have never overclocked before and i am not sure if i want to even.
Overclocking an FX chip is as easy as it gets.
AMD ocing is easier and safer than intel imho. All i seen is that people who oc on intel ended up burning the contact pads on the back of the cpu/
I used the "pea" method. I have two fans in the front, one in the back, one at the top and one in the side-panel.
And like they're all set to intake/exhaust properly?
yeah but an e component is just a lower binned black edition running at a lower clock rate, hence the lower TDP, if anything go with the normal version. So it's rather hard to recommend for gaming, considering they are the same price
Are you sure? People seem to be able to get decent overclocks on them from what I've read
Save yourself the money, and keep the FX-8350. Beyond 4.4ghz there is very little gain in performance, and beyond 4.2ghz there is just a crazy amount of efficiency lost. The FX-9XXX parts are binned in a such a way that a certain amount of performance is guaranteed, and the FX-8XXXE chips are binned to operate under a certain thermal/power threshold. The former was created to help combat the growing performance gap that Vishera had to endure through Ivy Bridge and Haswell, while the latter was to give lower-end platforms (970-chipsets with 4+1 phase VRMs, and the like) an upgrade path and to help AMD's energy efficiency image. Both are good examples of market segmentation used by advertising to sell more product.
Anyway, FX CPUs usually overclock pretty damn well; you can often gain 500mhz with stock voltage fairly easy. Most FX-8-core chips can make it to 4.6ghz, so chances are you'll be able to match the 4.7ghz stock clock speeds of the FX-9590 - it is all a question of how much voltage it is going to take for you to do that. If you are set on doing this, invest in a better cooling solution. Anything beyond 4.4ghz requires some serious power, and you will need, at least, some sort of dual-tower cooling solution, if you are going air. A double-wide radiator would be best for water. Jayztwocents will tell you how to get there. But, honestly, 4.2ghz is enough.
FX9590 is a total waste of money, because its totaly the same chip as a FX8350,
its just overclocked out of the box, nothing more nothing less.
There wont be any mindblowing performance increase realy.
Also the FX8320E and FX8370E for powersavings, is just one big load of nonsense.
THey are just the same as any other FX83xx chip,
The only time those E models will consume less power, is wenn its on idle, since its lower clocked.
But wenn its on load, it will consume just as much power as any other FX83xx chip.
This is because they are totaly the same,
You sure about that on the e parts? Seems it consumed less over here during handbreak, gotta look for some more though
I upgraded from an AMD FX-4170 to the 8320E. On the 4170 I got around 140 Watts in Idle and up to 400-410 under CPU and GPU load (prime95 and fur mark). If it is of interest I could plug in my watt meter and check the power draw. It would be interesting whether there is a power draw difference between the 125Watt TDP chip in comparison to the 95 Watt.