Is it just me or are there no decent AM3+ heatsinks that are under £30. I need to get one as my FX 8350 has a bad stock cooler. If anyone had any suggestions that would be great.
I bet there is a total easy solution but i am new to to Gaming Pc's
Do you whant one that fits the original clip on the mobo?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cooler-Master-Hyper-212-EVO/dp/B005HIRDVY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1364464378&sr=8-2
fits amd and intel (you need to install some clips you get with the cooler)
Most decent aftermarket CPU coolers are AM3/AM3+ compatible.
The best you can get for under 30 quid is the Scythe Grand Kama Cross Rev.B if you're looking for an all-round cooling solution (CPU+RAM+VRM). If you have a high airflow case with very good cpu cooler exhaust air extraction and parallel cross-angle cooling for the motherboard and RAM, the best result comes from a tower cooler, and for that price the best choice might be the Arctic Cooling A30, which is under 30 quid and has a theoretical cooling power over 320 W or so. Just don't use tower coolers in cases that are not optimised for tower coolers, if the hot exhaust air of the tower cooler isn't evacuated fast enough, it will cool less efficiently than a top-down-blowing cooler. And even if you have a high airflow case, you can still benefit from a top-down-blowing cooler if you don't need the extreme overclock cooling capacity of a tower, because a tower cooler does cause hotspots in the system, almost as bad as a prefilled consumer grade water cooler.
Be careful with socalled "direct heatpipe contact" coolers, because the cooling potential of the different heatpipes is joined solely by the stock heat spreader of the CPU, as there is no baseplate, and the tiny crevasses between the heatpipes can cause hotspots because the stock heat spreader doesn't distribute the heat as well as a flat copper baseplate. Another problem is that by design, the heatpipes pointing upwards typically perform better than those pointing downwards, and that difference is not evened out on direct contact coolers due to the lack of baseplate other than the stock heat spreader. Generally direct contact heatpipe coolers cool faster, but not as well, as classic copper baseplate coolers.
Thanks