CPU cooler upgrade

joxca

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Hello world.
I need help. I have amd fx8350 cpu with some bad cooling thats not doing its job so my cpu gets to hot and in games it tend to freez or crash my pc.
I was searching for its replacemant and I found Coolermaster hyper 212 evo cooler.
My question is does Hyper 212 evo fits in my Chieftec CG-01B--SL-OP case and on asus M5A99X EVO R2.0 motherboard next to which are 2x4 Kingstone HyperX fury 1866 black.
I hope you guys a little bit of time and help me out .
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Does my casing supports liquid cooling?
 


I just mounted to Corsair H60 fan to the back fan slot on my case man. You should be able to do the same with yours. I have mine in a pull configuration so it brings in cool air into my system.
 

Sweet! But does my casing supports liquid cooling, because it's pretty old

 

So this is my casing from behind
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It has 1x 80 mm fan sloth
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And this is from the side view.
 



Well the H60 has a 120mm fan, but if you do a pull configuration like I did, where it's pulling in the air, you shouldn't run into many problems with it, if any. If you want to get a different case, this is the one I got when I built my system and it's great and at a low price:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811853002
 
These few can fit in most cases because they fit on a regular fan mount
Im pretty sure a 120mm fan mount should be about right.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181010&nm_
The liquid cooling people need special cases for are the big liquid coolers and water cooling.
 

Ok mate, sorry , can u rephrase it, cuz my english ain't that good.
 


The Corsair H60 should have no problems as long as you mount the fan so it pulls air INTO your system.
 


That cooler you linked is Intel only. He has an AMD FX-8350.
 

These are my specs
Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0
AMD FX 8350
GEFORCE GTX 960 WF2 OC EDITION
KINGSTONE HYPREX FURY DDR3 1866 MHZ 2X4 RAM
some blue storm II psu
my question now is what casing do i need and that is the cheapest and kind of ok that will support liquid cooling ?
Please dont call me dumb for amd-nvidia combination
 


It's a myth that systems run better using either Intel+Nvidia or AMD CPU + AMD GPU. Nvidia will run great on both. And like I said, your current case SHOULD be fine as long as you mount the H60 cooler so it pulls in the air instead of pushing the air out.

If you really want, you can go with the case I linked before. It works just fine, is cheap and has USB 3.0 slots on it:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811853003
 


I even tried that with mine when it was getting extremely hot. It's just the CPU that gets amazingly hot. I got 2 aftermarket air coolers, Arctic 5 thermal paste and the only thing that brought it down was the liquid cooling. Unless I wanted to spend like $80 on a air cooler, but at that point I just went ahead and got the H60 for like $60 lol.
 
Thermal paste is important for sure. I got rid of dried up thermal paste on both of my 290's and reapplied Arctic Silver 5. One of em dropped 7C and the other one dropped 5C.

 

I doubt that its because of thermal paste since the one i have on is not even a week old. its just that i have some bad aftermarket cooler that runs on smaler rpm than the standard one and so on some games ( not all ) like PD2 or Insurgency my pc just freezes and or restarts and or gets blue screen.