[SOLVED] New cooler for a gigabyte ga-990fxa-ud3 r5

[VersionRed]

Hello, thanks for taking the time to read this.

I recently had my liquid cooler give out after five years. I decided to find a new one to replace it, but I'm having a horrible time finding one that fits properly. All of the documentation I have says it is an AM3+ socket, so I have been looking for cooling related to that. The problem comes into the brackets that most I've seen being the wrong shape. The bracket needs to be (if you drew a line connecting all the screws) rectangular, but all the ones that say they are AM3+ are square. I'm not the most tech savvy when it comes to actual parts, and I don't have a ton of money, so I need to really be careful in what I buy. I just am not sure what I'm supposed to be looking for now. If it helps, a new liquid cooler would end up being connected to one 120mm fan.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Darkbreeze]

And, was it successful? Did you try it out after installing? I can't help with the underclocking until this evening, at which time I'll get that information to you but there is a lot of information out there as well regarding underclocking in general and underclocking the 9370 and 9590 FX CPUs so you might be able to find what you are looking for and get it done prior to that.

 

[VersionRed]

I briefly had to shut it all down to reverse a fan and switch where it was plugged in, but since then it's been running perfectly fine. Thanks for the help so far.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Ok, cool. So, here, right here, is what I recommend you at least try. You can tune things on a personal basis from there.. If you need specific, board and hardware specific guidance, I'll do that.

I mean, and I apologize, but literally there are a lot of this is how you do it, here, but I am willing to help with actual step by step if that is really necessary.

https://www.google.com/search?q=FX+...oXkgEFMTguMTKYAQCgAQHIAQTAAQE&sclient=gws-wiz

 

[VersionRed]

After a few videos/websites, I got it done. Took turning the turbo off for it to work, which a surprising number of them didn't mention needing to do. I ran a few different things here and there to check temps, but haven't really stress tested it yet. It's functional at least. Thanks for the help.

 

[Darkbreeze]

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