Question Is there a fan I can move from FX-8300 to Ryzen 5?

[jimaxwell]

I'm rolling with an old FX-8300 chip and the CPU fan has given up the ghost. I had some great recommendations on building out a new CPU/MB/RAM/PS setup using a Ryzen 5. However, the neccessary ~$500 will not be in the budget for a couple of months. In the mean time I'm wondering if I could drop some cash for a CPU fan that will be an improvement over the stock Ryzen fan that I could use with FX-8300. That would get me up and running w/o throwing money down the tubes.

Doable?

 

[Zephyl]

You could temporarily just replace the fan with a cheap fan from Amazon. Normally the cooler is just a heatsink with a fan screwed or clipped to it, so you could just replace the fan on the cooler for now, just be sure to get the right size.