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I have an fx 8320, which I believe has the same cooler, and the coil whine is horrid. I get temps in the upper 50s and lower 60s in the bios, and up to 80 while doing light gaming. I don't even overclock. I wanted to get an aftermarket cpu cooler anyways, but now it's a matter of my sanity...

Hey guys, I'm getting pretty sick of my fx8320's stock fan and I'm ready to upgrade to an aftermarket heatsink. Here's the relevant specs: fx 8320 msi 970a-g43 motherboard corsair 500r corsair vengeance 2x4gb ram What is the best cpu cooler (reluctant to do water cooling as I don't intend to...

I have an msi 970a-g43 motherboard and I was messing around in the bios and I enabled msi fast boot. Now I get the following message when I try to boot. EFI Shell version 2.31 [4.653] Current running mode 1.1.2 map: cannot find required map name Press ESC in 1 seconds to skip startup.nsh, or...

You can get a 7970 or even a 7970 ghz edition for $330 right now. That would be much better than a 660ti. Or if you really want to go nvidia, you could get a gtx 760, which performs about as well as a 660 ti. Also you will need to upgrade your psu. Try to get one from seasonic, xfx, or...

Looks great, but just make sure you live near a microcenter, as that deal on the cpu is in store pickup only. I especially love that case, so your girlfriend definitely sounds like a keeper. You may want to consider a seasonic psu rather than that antec one, but the one you listed looks fine.

Unless you plan on upgrading your cpu, don't get a z77 motherboard. An H77 chipset would do quite well.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130826&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID= Boom, great deal.

That ram is not from a great manufacturer, so I would recommend getting some from corsair, g.skill, mushkin, etc. For $10 more you could get the msi 970a-g43 motherboard, which has a better chipset and is better all around. You should consider the 650 ti boost for ~$30 more (2gb version). It...

The only thing that's really worth upgrading would be the gpu, so you could either go with a gtx 770 or wait until amd's next gen flagship gpu's. I would wait for the 8950/8970 if only to get your money's worth from your current card, which is quite good.

Budget?

If you can, try to get a 650 ti boost. Not much more expensive, but much better performance.