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    Air Cooler or All-in-One Liquid Cooler With No Fan?

    Never consider running an AIO water cooler with no fan on it. It will do nothing to mitigate temperatures; the CPU simply runs too hot. ITX built air cooler, no question.
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    [Desktop] Random power cycles

    Hello TomsHardware community, long time no see. I come to humbly ask for assistance with an odd issue which will reboot my machine after shutting off cold turkey. Back log: This issue started awhile ago (perhaps a month or so) when my desktop would start shutting off completely -- akin to...
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    CPU temperature instability. Help Needed!!

    Check your motherboard. Biostar makes horridly unreliable motherboards. I had one that was partially DOA, and it wouldn't boot into the OS with any sort of CD in the drive. Even then it took 10 or more reboots to successfully boot up.
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    i7-4710HQ reads 90°C at max load (not OC'd)

    You'd probably feel it if it was truly hitting 90-95c. Try using RealTemp, and see what it says. It could be that HWMonitor isn't getting the right temperature.
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    upgrade to i7 or stay with 8350?

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    upgrade to i7 or stay with 8350?

    No, you're fine with an FX 8350. Upgrading to an i7 definitely won't be worth your time or money. By the time you get a new motherboard, CPU, and presumably a cooler you'll be out several hundred bucks with sub-par performance increases to show for it.
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    Laptop stopped working

    Try popping the battery out for a half hour or so and letting it do a hard reset.
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    Intel 17-4790k or 15-4690k?

    There's no feasible reason not to go for it. Combo up. :)
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    Upgrade ASUS R508CA CPU?

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    AMD CPU for gaming (fanboi question)

    FX 8350/8370.
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    Minecraft Server CPU

    Q6600 Core2Quad hands down. Servers require threading, and the Core2Quad will bode better with four cores, than the E8400 will with two cores.
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    fx6300 vs i3 4130

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    Difference between Core 2 Quad and i3?

    Core2Quad: - Four physical cores - Older architecture - Older socket - Lower frequency - More overall cache (L1/L2 specifically. No L3) i3 4130: - Two physical cores, and two logical cores. (Four in total, due to Hyperthreading). - Newer architecture - Newer socket - Higher frequency...