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What cooling are the best for a fx 6300?

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Anton Myrenius

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Hi i have a amd fx 6300 in my pc and i want to get a new cooler and i dont know what i should get.
I am thinking to a corsair H80i but i don't know whats the best.
i don't want it to be so expensive but around 65 £.
please help me i need it cus my temps are to high
 
I have:
msi 970A-G43
sapphire radeon r9 280 3gb gddr3
2 sticks kingston hyperX 2x4gb 1600mhz
2 sticks corsair 2x8gb 1333mhz
cooler master B500 500w
WD Desktop Blue 1TB 7200 rpm
and my temps on load is around 70 C
 
AMD processors run cool. The FX 6300 is rated as a 95 W CPU. Doesn't have big power requirements. Even with reasonable overclocking, a 125W to 140W cooler should be be plenty. Almost any decent air cooler would work.

I can't really see any reason to go with water cooling or a massive 140 mm air cooling tower on an FX6300. If you needed that much heat dissipation for the CPU, other parts of your MB, like the VRMs with no heat sinks would be failing.

In a full size case with lots of clearance for height, the Noctua NH-U12S would be a high-end choice, with 140W+ capability. The EVO212, a good budget choice. Basically, any tower cooler with a 120mm PWM fan would be good.

If you have a smaller case or just to take up less room, the 92mm Noctua (NH-U9S) would work great with an FX 6300. That's rated at 125W, so you've got plenty of reserve over the stock FX 6300 95W rating. You might not be able to win overclocking contests, but you could certainly overclock the CPU to a reasonable degree at or near stock voltages and have plenty of cooling. It probably wouldn't be smart to start cranking up voltages for ultimate overclocking with your board and power supply anyway.

If you're not overclocking, any of those cooler would run really really cool and/or really, really quiet, even under torture test loads. With no overclocking, I would expect even the small 92mm fan Noctua to keep max CPU temps at or below 50C even with a Prime 95 torture test and still be much quieter than the stock fan (2000 rpm versus 3400 rpm the stock cooler).
 
Okey, i want to overclock the cpu a little bit to something like 4.5 ghz. Can i do that on this board or is it bad?
Should i get some VRM heatsinks?
What Heatsink is the best if im going to 4.5?
 
Looks like the Noctua NH-U12S is 61 pounds from Amazon UK:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Noctua-NH-U12S-Ultra-Quiet-Cooler-NF-F12/dp/B00C9EYVGY

That would be an awesome choice. Won't fit in a mini tower, but would fit in any standard size case. Needs a case that's 180mm tall/wide.

To be honest, real estate on the board is so tight on the AMD northbridge boards, that the smaller 92mm version is a great way to go and cheaper at 47 pounds:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/noctua-NH-U9S-Noctua/dp/B00PIPCEQA

It'll fit better (not so close to the northbridge heat sink), not as tall. And is really a great match for the MB and the CPU.

Less expensive versions of these types/sizes of coolers would also work great. These just happen to be super high quality. The best fans, easy well-engineered idiot-proof installation, complete kits, etc. 15 minutes to install on your AMD board. Even the thermal paste and screw driver you need is included.
 
i have a nzxt guardian 921 case so i wont fit the Noctua NH-U12S in there. Only if i reomve the side fan.
I found: Noctua NH-U9B SE2 on "komplett" and what is the diferent?
 
Yeah. it looks like the NH-U12S would only fit in that case without the side mounted case fan.

The NH-U9S is the new version of the NH-U9B SE2. It uses one higher speed PWM fan to get the same cooling performance as the two slower 3-pin fans on the SE2. If you have a choice, get the U9S. It's smaller, so it won't even reach to the memory slots. And, the 4-pin PWM fan is what you really want for a 4-pin PWM CPU fan header. Plus, it comes with everything you need to mount it front to back on an AMD MB. With the old version, you need an NM-A90 bracket kit. You can get it free from Noctua, but it probably takes a week or two.

I would say that the Noctua NH-U9S is the best cooler that will fit easily in your case and a perfect match for the FX 6300 and your MB.

I went with the discontinued NH-U9B SE because the new version isn't yet available in the US. I put two of the new PWM fans on it and used the 3-pin fans that came with it as chassis fans. I've got an FX 6300 on order.
 
From everything I've been reading here, it looks like you can probably get 4.4 gHz from an FX 6300 with stock voltages. I think the Noctua U9S should be able to cool that level of overclocking.

Any faster and you've got to start increasing the voltages, which is probably not a great idea with your setup (or mine!).

It would not hurt to heat sink the VRMs. I ordered a set of 10 6.5mm x 6.5mm Enzotech heat sinks for mine. Looks like your MB layout would let you use one big heat sink to cover all of them.

The Noctua and the rear fan are going to move some air over the VRMs and give you some cooling.
 
I think your board has two holes for spring mounted posts to secure a single long thin heat sink to the circuit board. There's probably a white line on the MB outlining perfectly the size and shape of the right heat sink. Probably can see one looking at other MSI boards.

I would try to find one of those, with the two mounting posts. A tiny dot of thermal past on top of each chip and attach the thing to the board by pushing the two posts down into the holes in the circuit board.
 
I am from sweden and i can't buy a new MB cus my mom says no 😀
i have told her that my pc needs more cooling.

Enzotech MST-66
Enzotech MST-88

do these fit on the msi 970A-g43?
 


One of those might well fit perfectly. Best to measure your motherboard and see if it matches the dimension on the Enzotech site.

I had to go with their little 6.5 mm single heat sinks, one for each MOSFET. Capacitors on the board prevent using one long heatsink.

 
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