Recent content by burritobrownie

Yes I was wrong in saying 8c because it actually idles around 25c in the bios which is correct not the incorrect core temp readings. All I know is mine never went above 47c in hwinfo , coretemp and aida64 at 4.8 ghz. Amd's accurate above 40c due to the algorithm they use to get a more accurate...

I would not but my FX-6300 stock hs/f is still in the box so I can't honestly say for sure what it will handle for an o/c without overheating. I use a hyper 212 evo on mine. I had it up to 4.2 on stock voltage but with aftermarket cooling. It should run 4.7-4.8with the right board , ram and...

If you have power saving features enabled it will flucuate the freq. depending on what you are doing and in turn will make the temps go up and down. That part is normal. The min proc state should not affect it in that way. What are your max cpu temps? What o/s are you using? Could you ellaborate...

I would go FX-6300 for the added performance , wallet willing though. That bundle is $220 worth for $160 , hard to pass up. Fry's is my favorite place to go even though it's a 80 minute drive.

I would get an aftermarket cooler with your other build parts. I had to take the back plate off my mobo to install the hyper 212 evo. Removing the mobo later on to install it was not what I wanted to do. It was kind of a pain to install but it was my first aftermarket cooler since Athlon 64...

My FX-6300 o/c to 4.8 ghz with a hyper 212 evo idles 19c , 47c max load during benchmarks. Stock default cpu settings it runs 8c idle and 36c max load during benchmarks. This is in a c/m elite 430 case with 5 120mm fans , 1 front , 1 side , 2 up top and 1 in the back. Ambient room temp stays...

Just as a rough guideline from o/c my FX-6300 , disable the following: cool and quiet , turbo core and any power saving features in your bios first. On my 990fxa-ud3/FX-6300/hyper 212 evo a few of my results were: X21 multiplier stock voltage yielded 4.2 ghz with 14c idle 36c max during...

Well stated jaguarskx! If you want to upgrade just your cpu in a year or so go with Amd. If you want the single threaded (single core) performance go with Intel and in a year buy another motherboard , if you decide to upgrade. I ran a Amd Phenom 9500 quad core from Feb. 2008 until Feb 2013 with...

[/quotemsg] It is not that the games will not run. FX6300 will preform also still better than the old Q6600. It is just that most games still prefer faster cores rather than more cores. Intels i5 processors are faster but AMD FX processor have more cores in the same price class. FX series also...

I have a Cooler Master eXtreme 500W that I have ran since Feb of 2008 with no problems?

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/AMD-Phenom-II-X4-Black-980-vs-AMD-FX-6300 Don't be fooled. I upgraded from 785g chipset and phenom 9500 to a FX-6300 Feb 4th. For $505 USD (including tax) I got a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 board (159.99) , FX-6300 (129.99) , Crucial Ballistix ddr3 1866 2x4 gigs ram (52.99) ...

According to Wikipedia Intel's total assets as of 2012 were over 84 billion dollars , Amd's were just a measly 5 billion. The fact that Amd is even coming close to Intel in comparable price ranges let alone undercutting Intel on price is absolutely amazing to me. Price to performance is where I...