What's the best way to keep this cool for gaming? Im not familiar with liquid cooling but dont want to overheat
1880813
Get a good case with good air flow. At least 6 fans. I have no issues with heat whatsoever.
1880814
I used a Corsair A70 air cooler. Temperatures are comparable to liquid cooling. I am running a 3rd gen I5 at around 31-33 Celsius.
2239741
In my case I'm using the "Corsair h100i", I think is better have a liquid cooling.
1482448
As long as the fans on the bottom are not covered, personally i have had no problems with noise or getting too hot, gaming on it has ben perfection.
1774889
Well, I have four fans cooling my system and when gaming I let them spin pretty fast. Don't really care about excessive sound because I'm wearing a headset most of the time. With stock fan/heat sink mine is very cool while idle, and have never seen it above 60C while playing some of the most demanding games. Yes the fan and heat sink could be better but for me it's fine.
1204725
i already had a fan, but they have plenty on amazon to do the job.make sure you get the arctic silver thermal paste too. this will keep theamd running cooler.
525700
Sorry for the late reply here bud......The fan on this thing is pretty excellent. After a 2 hour long BF4 session the fan can cool from 75c+ down to about 35-40c in 2-3minutes.
1743987
its amazing. I don't have a water cooling system and it rarely gets warm. (I keep it on lowest fan setting for noise and game pretty hard on highest settings, when it rarely does I turn the fans up and its cool again within a minute)
85894
I had a constant problem with this computer overheating, even tried a HUGE cooler on the cpu, didn't help much. I have this cooler on two of my computers and I've had no problem with overheating whatsoever. I play all my games, FPS, Racers, etc., at highest settings and no problems. Wouldn't build a new computer without one.
1132046
The heat sink and fan that comes with the processor will keep the it cool. However, it is noisy. I put an FX-8350 in a Silver Stone HTPC LC10-E case. I used a Cooler Master GeminII S524 cooler and heat sink. Very quiet.
1949742
I actually had mine in a pretty small, mini-itx build. It stayed reasonably cool during most day-to-day operations with the stock fan, between 35C and 50C--and that's without any other case fans. As long as you aren't doing anything too CPU-intensive, I'd consider the stock fan pretty adequate. Good luck with you build
2104182
that's exactly what I did on mine, mostly because i replaced everything in the case with these and wanted consistency. If the stock fans aren't loud then it might not be worth it. Doubt you'd see much of a difference in cooling performance.
1557303
I don't use it for gaming, I use it mostly for photography, "Photoshop". It does not overheat for me.
1825254
Put it on my gtx 780 works fine. Not as well as a full cooling system. But keeps my graphics card from overheating like it did before I put this on. Before installing this I could only play games in 4k for about an hour before my pc would crash from overheating. After installing it never overheats. Keeps at a comfortable 65 Celsius. Also was relatively simple to install and comes with full instructions.
1347232
There is plenty of room inside this case. I don't have a liquid cooling system but I have seen YouTube reviews showing various installations. It will most likely depend on your video card since that seems to be the largest item installed.
256081
This kit came with a little heat sink. I overclocked it and the heat sink barely even warms up I don't think a fan would be a great investment for this setup. Not to mention you wouldn't be able to close the case being it is very tight as is.
1078461
I currently use this on an AMD a10-5700 and have not had any problems with keeping it cool. I use it as a media PC so it runs 24/7.
422252
I currently use it for my server laptop. I had it on my gaming rig but it does not produce enough air flow to keep her cool so I use a Cooler Master NotePal LapAir for my gaming rig now. I would only recommend this for light use laptops (web browsing, flash games, etc).