Case and Processor Cooling

Bob692006

Bob692006

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I've been overclocking my AMD Phenom X4 9850 to 3.1 Ghz but seeing the temps hitting up to 57oC under load. I'm still using the stock heatsink/fan and have 3 80mm Raidmax fans that came stock with the case, all pulling out. I'm open to any suggestions but am on a $30-$40 budget for upgrades, which I know isn't really much but I may be able to do more later.
 
that CPU is rated for 61c so your not killing it yet. When you say "load" is that like intel burn test or is it gaming? Stock heatsink on that is quite good, hows your case airflow? Try lowering voltage and see if its still stable.
 
Hm, as for the case cooling.

Have one fan putting cool air into the case, perhaps from the front.

One in the back, extracting.

And have one on top extracting. If your not comfortable drilling a hole in the top of your case then get something like the Antec Nine Hundred gaming case, excellent cooling.
 
By load I mean, using BurnItIn, I ran the CPU at 80% utilization for 15 minutes and that was the highest I seen it hit. I did also use Prime95 though and it got up to about 64oC at the highest point before I stopped the test. The case I have has two 80mm fans in the back beside the output panel for the mobo pulling air out, and another 80mm on the left side, pulling air out by default, that I turned around to pull air in right onto my CPU cooling fan/heatsink. As far as the budget, as said before I'm willing to go a little higher but it'll have to wait until the first of next month.
 
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