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AMD FX OC'ers Club

I'll go for Prime95 1 hour Small FFTs test @ 4.7 & after that 5.0GHz with these fans - wish me luck: if it passes, i call it C:R (Carmageddon: Reincarnation) stable. lol
 
I'll just leave this here ;)

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Found some review @ RelaxedTech, they used Noctua's NH-D15 cooler in combination with NF-A14 iPPC 2000 & 3000RPM PWM fans, see the review yourselves, haven't found too many reviews of these fans throughout the web: http://www.relaxedtech.com/reviews/noctua/nf-a14-industrialppc/6

Off-topic sorry, but: the Corsair's HX1000 PSU - will it give enough juice for 5.0GHz/1.450v FX-8350, 16GB RAM & 2xASUS GTX 760 DCII OC GPUs? Not willing to buy 1200W one just yet.
 
Found some review @ RelaxedTech, they used Noctua's NH-D15 cooler in combination with NF-A14 iPPC 2000 & 3000RPM PWM fans, see the review yourselves, haven't found too many reviews of these fans throughout the web: http://www.relaxedtech.com/reviews/noctua/nf-a14-industrialppc/6

Off-topic sorry, but: the Corsair's HX1000 PSU - will it give enough juice for 5.0GHz/1.450v FX-8350, 16GB RAM & 2xASUS GTX 760 DCII OC GPUs? Not willing to buy 1200W one just yet.

@manofthem ran an HX1000 with an overclocked cpu and 2x 7970's with no issues.... it should continue to run your setup just fine! ;)

Fun fact- an HX1000 is actually 2x 500w psu's stitched together
 
Found some review @ RelaxedTech, they used Noctua's NH-D15 cooler in combination with NF-A14 iPPC 2000 & 3000RPM PWM fans, see the review yourselves, haven't found too many reviews of these fans throughout the web: http://www.relaxedtech.com/reviews/noctua/nf-a14-industrialppc/6

Off-topic sorry, but: the Corsair's HX1000 PSU - will it give enough juice for 5.0GHz/1.450v FX-8350, 16GB RAM & 2xASUS GTX 760 DCII OC GPUs? Not willing to buy 1200W one just yet.
@manofthem ran an HX1000 with an overclocked cpu and 2x 7970's with no issues.... it should continue to run your setup just fine! ;)

Fun fact- an HX1000 is actually 2x 500w psu's stitched together

You are correct sir, the HX1000 was/is a great unit imo, it only was replaced by a sexier AX1200 from a buddy ;)



@YautjaLord according to W1zz's review, Max power draw for those cards is 210w, and normal gaming is likely much lower than that. That should out your cards under 400w while gaming, which leaves a hefty amount of power for your cpu OC, drives, fans, etc.



Also @Mussels' power thread is definitely worth looking at. There's likely a rig or so that's close to what you're looking at that'll give you an idea.
 
I'm sure you will be fine I ran my 7950's and phenom ii on the 850w in my sys specs before getting the 1200.
 
I also concur, I am running my Fx 8350 overclocked with a pair of 7850's with 3x 1tb platter drives on a 750 watt Antec psu with no issues.
 
Awesome! Left with just GPU + 2 NF-A14 iPPCs to buy next Sunday, set these up & ready to rape 8350 with 5.0GHz OC & Prime95 1 hour Small FFTs test; if it runs for 1 hour without any hiccup, Blend test for 1 hour & than just wait to buy 2nd GTX 760 DCII OC when September 10 comes-a-knockin'. lol Thanx ALOT!!!!!!! Keep headbangin'. :rockout:

2manofthem:

Saw the Mussel's power thread, there's one named FX-GMC - you talked about his setup? Guy have Seasonic's 650Watt PSU & he only touches a bit more than half of it in 3DMark11, less than half in wPrime 1024 test & the CPU @ same frequency as mine, 100MHz less but doesn't really matter. I have overkill PSU? lol No need for PSU upgrade in near future. Thanx man.
 
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So, I think I may have figured out what I was doing wrong with my fan set-up to never get an idle temp below 43C. I had the fans on my H80 pointed in the wrong direction... DOH!
 
So, I think I may have figured out what I was doing wrong with my fan set-up to never get an idle temp below 43C. I had the fans on my H80 pointed in the wrong direction... DOH!

Do you mean blowing at each other. I've done that before when reassembling. Now I pay a lot more attention.
 
No, I may have forgotten to have them suck in outside air... >.>;;
 
ordered some deepcool iceblades... making a psu cover for my PSU. arylic was a fail XD
 
Thanks for the heads up @Norton , good ram is getting harder and harder to find these days. I'm all set my self but this should make decent benching kit.
 
maybe you should put Ram in the facebook search box. There are plenty of them :p
 
What's Facebook??
 
Facebook, bitch I ain't going to no libary to get no book I can't read.
 
Should I be looking at CPU temps or the Temperatures under the FX-8350? There is usually a fair difference between the two, and not real sure which one I should be focused on...
 

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CPU temps. on die temps are crap with the FX series. it uses some weird algorithm to calculate the temp rather than an actual sensor.


if you have a motherboard software use that.
 
The on die sensor is designed to be correct at peak temps.
 
CPU temps. on die temps are crap with the FX series. it uses some weird algorithm to calculate the temp rather than an actual sensor.


if you have a motherboard software use that.

Should I be looking at CPU temps or the Temperatures under the FX-8350? There is usually a fair difference between the two, and not real sure which one I should be focused on...

The CPU temp is what they call the socket which as you say ddd is calculated, the package temp is an actual sensor that monitors the Cores but only one not one per core as they used to do.
So Dionysus you need to watch both. The "CPU" is good till ~70c then some boards will star to throttle. The package is good to about ~62c around there any way for day to day use. There has never been anything official from AMD on max temps.
 
Use HWinfo64. HWMonitor messes with the ATI GPUs Zero core, sometimes it doesn't allow the fans to stop when idle and monitor is going to sleep, it keeps waking up the GPU. Also keeps waking up the Hard drives to monitor the temps. At least on my machine, not sure if others have the same issue. I stopped using that program. Using only HWinfo64.
 
Use HWinfo64. HWMonitor messes with the ATI GPUs Zero core, sometimes it doesn't allow the fans to stop when idle and monitor is going to sleep, it keeps waking up the GPU. Also keeps waking up the Hard drives to monitor the temps. At least on my machine, not sure if others have the same issue. I stopped using that program. Using only HWinfo64.

I've never noticed any issues myself but I seldom use AMD GFX and my PC never sleeps it's either on or off.
 
Paid for GTX 760 DCII OC (should arrive tomorrow or Thursday, Friday @ most) & 1 Noctua's NF-A14 iPPC 3000RPM PWM fan (have it, in it's box for now). By end of this month will have the 2nd NF-A14 & than - sh*t happens. lol jk
 
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