Motherboard and Watercooling replacement help

[ben Vairet]

Good morning guys!

This morning my computer started to continuously shutting down. After reading posts on this forum, I installed a software and realized that my CPU was at 109 Celcius. 🙁

I brought it to a store nearby and the guy confirmed that my watercooling fan was not working anymore. He told me to find one, order it and he would install it for me. He also noted that my ram was not working properly and that only 8gb were showing instead of my 32gb. After a few test he mentioned that my ram slots on the motherboard were deficient. He advised to change the motherboard as well.

Now, I really don't know anything about motherboards or CPU cooling. But I would like to keep my spending to a minimum if possible. ( I still don't mind spending a little more just for better quality).

This pc is mostly for multimedia and gaming. I have a AMD FX-8320 3.50 GHz Eight-Core AM3+ CPU 8MB L2 Cache & Turbo Core Technology. And my current motherboard is [CrossFireX] GIGABYTE GA-970A-DS3P AMD 970 Socket AM3+ ATX Mainboard w/ On/Off Charge, Ultra Durable 4 Classic, 7.1 Audio, GbLAN, 2 Gen2 PCIe X16, 3 PCIe X1 & 2 PCI and my CPU cooling is Asetek 510LC Liquid Cooling System 120MM Radiator & Fan (Enhanced Cooling Performance + Extreme Silent at 20dBA) (Single Standard 120MM Fan).

I guess my question is do you guys have anything you can recommend to replace my motherboard and Watercooling fan? Oh, and do I need watercooling for gaming or a regular cooling is enough?

Thank you so much for your help!

 

[ben Vairet]

Could this motherboard and CPU cooling work?
https://pcpartpicker.com/user/ZeBenV/saved/#view=LHMXLk

 

[Mikel_4]

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First of all you need to watch video tutorials on replacing TIM, if TIM replacement isn't working then get top TIM such as Hydronaut, MX5, just googling with keyword " best thermal grease". There're many good AM3 compatible cooler, one of them is Cryorig H7.
■ You can also add good fan that matches your CPU cooler (90mm, 120mm and 140mm), maybe the fan or pump have been degrading either of dust or electronically aging.
■ If you not doing specific hardware requirement task such as Solidworks with Professional graphic cars (Quadro or Radeon Pro) then add good reviewed PSU such as Seasonic, FX-8320 is considered obsolete (bad power consumption to given performance to Intel CPU), good news is AMD strikes back with Ryzen CPU, I notice Intel LGA 2013-V3 CPUs price are dropping, so if you like to invest on PC build, then X370 motherboard + Ryzen CPU beats Intel par at the similar price range.

Conclusion

- Replace with good CPU air cooler such as Cryorig H7
- Replace with good PSU such as Seasonic Prime series

Order of failure

■ Cheap fan
■ Cheap mouse and keyboard
■ Cheap PSU
■ Mechanical HDD or ODD
■ Motherboard and Graphic card
■ CPU and RAM, you wouldn't believe my AMD Sempron + DDR2 is still working.