I'm switching teams... Hello AMD !

Well I checked my tracking information and it seems both are with Royal Fail.

Who are pretty good here and turn up around 2pm.

I doubt Amazon would have sent them by second class not signed for so I should be OK :)
 
AlienALX said:
Tomorrow hopefully !

I got the AM3+ bracket for my H60 today and I've fitted that :)
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would a h60 be enough to cool an OC 8 core ? my friend is thinking of going amd soon and i know he will ask me what i suggest to cool it witth :P

i noticed on some benches i was looking at today the AMD was cooled by H80 and the i7 by a H100.
 
vorticalbox said:
would a h60 be enough to cool an OC 8 core ? my friend is thinking of going amd soon and i know he will ask me what i suggest to cool it witth :P
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I cool(ed) mine with a seidon 120 and had no issues. If he wants to go air I'd reccomend at the very least a bequiet! Dark Rock 2. People have used H100is in the past to hit the 'magical' 5ghz on 8350s.
 
barnsley said:
I cool(ed) mine with a seidon 120 and had no issues. If he wants to go air I'd recommend at the very least a bequiet! Dark Rock 2. People have used H100is in the past to hit the 'magical' 5ghz on 8350s.
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i would either go air or a full water loop :P just seemed weird to me that they were doing a head to head with same hardware "minus mobo and cpu" and used two different coolers :/
 
Yeah :l. I'd imagine there is a very tiny difference in temperature but considering the AMD chip will produce more heat I think it is a bit odd they didn't use the same cooler.
 
Tek Syndicate? They were the ones who pointed out that the 8 cores weren't as bad as everyone said. Well they were for me. I'm sure there is a innocent reason.
 
vorticalbox said:
would a h60 be enough to cool an OC 8 core ? my friend is thinking of going amd soon and i know he will ask me what i suggest to cool it witth :P

i noticed on some benches i was looking at today the AMD was cooled by H80 and the i7 by a H100.
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It's more than enough :)

Due to me buying a 4+1 VRM motherboard I won't be able to clock any higher than 4.2ghz, the turbo clock for the 8350. Any higher and the VRMs over heat and throttle.

The H60 will be used with push pull fans, and you need to remember that a stock AMD cooler is enough to run the chip at a 4ghz turbo, so yeah it's more than enough :)

barnsley said:
I cool(ed) mine with a seidon 120 and had no issues. If he wants to go air I'd reccomend at the very least a bequiet! Dark Rock 2. People have used H100is in the past to hit the 'magical' 5ghz on 8350s.
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I'm done with huge air coolers. Not that I don't think they're good because they are, but I hate not being able to upgrade your ram without taking it off or faffing around and so on. Oh and I don't miss scalping my knuckles trying to plug in the 8 pin EPS with my Noctua !

I do aim to overclock the 8320 but mostly just to turn it into the 8350 for less money. I'm aiming for the "work with all" 4.2ghz that most people run on their 3570k. I'm not looking for extreme clocks or anything that requires very expensive components or eats loads of power.

I will be benchmarking it fairly against the Intel CPU that costs the same. Not the I5 3570k as that costs £171, and not the 3770k because that costs much more. I'm sick of seeing people comparing apples to lemons. Apples to apples !

I just looked and the Intel I5 3470 seems to be the most similar chip to my Xeon (which is a rebadged I5 2400 with more cache) so that will about do it, even though the Intel cost £143.59.

So it's still a little bit unfair, but not as unfair as comparing the 8320 with the I7 3770k and then all pointing and laughing. Nothing pisses me off more than people who do unfair unbalanced tests to make something look bad.

If the 8320 can topple my Xeon (and I'm pretty sure it will) then it will be a CPU worth having for price to performance.
 
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barnsley said:
Tek Syndicate? They were the ones who pointed out that the 8 cores weren't as bad as everyone said. Well they were for me. I'm sure there is a innocent reason.
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i'm sure there is too, just seemed odd to me that they used different coolers. im assuming tey did the tests side by side to save time and didn't have a second H100.

still nice to know that you could use the lower H80 thats more money saved
 
AlienALX said:
I will be benchmarking it fairly against the Intel CPU that costs the same. Not the I5 3570k as that costs £171, and not the 3770k because that costs much more. I'm sick of seeing people comparing apples to lemons. Apples to apples !.
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Finally! I don't think I've ever seen the 8320 compared to intel CPUs of the same price. Actually, I don't find that many comparisons of it come to think of it. :/
 
I'm with ya on being done with gianormous air coolers. I like the open look of my case with my H100 and I like being able to get to all my RAM slots. There are some coolers out there like that monster from Phanteks that blocks a PCIE slot! I'm a big fan of all these closed loop coolers coming out. Not to mention it makes me cringe thinking of that much weight and leverage dangling from my motherboard.
 
To be fair, I'd not touch a heavy duty air cooler unless it was for a case like the HAF XB which doesn't have any weight dangling off the motherboard as well. I'd be constantly checking that the cooler wasn't cracking the motherboard. xD
 
I too have given up on these great metal lumps, mainly from an aesthetic pov, but alot of the mitx board sockets are also too close to the pci-e slot. The weight hanging off the board isn't an issue, unless you move your rig around alot. The fixings for the D14 were pretty darn good tbh.
 
barnsley said:
Finally! I don't think I've ever seen the 8320 compared to intel CPUs of the same price. Actually, I don't find that many comparisons of it come to think of it. :/
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the fx-8320 is £120 on aria the closest intel chip to that price is i5-3330.

i think they pick where they are in the range, so top vs top and so on, and price isn't really ever involved.
 
Well this is a change! Welcome to the dark side! ;)

I must say I'm liking my FX-8350 quite a bit. I managed 5.2GHz out of it, although it wouldn't have been stable, and my cooler wouldn't be up to it long term.

I'm running it happily undervolted at stock now. TBH stock is enough for me really. :p
 
Hi there AlienALX! Do you have any idea why your avatar is gone and your post count is on 0?
Anyway, looking forward to see them benchmarks!
 
Looks like he was either banned, left OC3D or something is updating. Maybe he was hacked? Only time I've seen people's profiles missing is when they've left/banned. :/
 
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