Cooling & Ram for FX8150/990FXA-UD7

terry55404 · **Cooling & Ram for FX8150/990FXA-UD7 -** 07-03-2012, 00:00 | posts: 1

Hello,

I'm aware that the 990FXA supports 32GB Ram.. Why is everybody running 16GB? I'm getting ready to buy ram.. I don't care about the price too much. I just want to make sure it's the best of the best. Please let me know what I should get?

Question 2.. I have the Thermaltake MK-i case that has ample amount of room. The specs say it can support a 240MM water cooling system. I want to know which one is the best without being ridiculously expensive. I also have never installed water cooling.. Any pointers for me as what I should buy and such?

Please and Thank you!

FX-8150/990FXA-UD7
Two Geforce 9800GTX+ in 2-way SLI
1500 w SilverStone ST1500
Thermaltake MK-i tower with stock fans.

Pill Monster · 07-04-2012, 00:36 | posts: 20,473 | Location: NZ

Most people aren't using 16GB ram afaik...8GB is what most guys here use....

Gripen90 · 07-04-2012, 09:52 | posts: 681 | Location: Denmark

16GB Ram is great for heavy picture editing. But 8GB to 16GB in games and normal windows use there 0 difference.

BLEH! · **Memory**: 24GB @ 1600 @ 9-10-9-27

Lot of RAM is good for e-peen and virtualisation, but can be a headache when coming to running it fast (er than 1333/1600 MHz) as larger DIMMS (and more of them) put far greater load on your CPU's memory controller (my 6 DIMMs are rated at 2000 MHz, can only run reasonably at 1600 MHz, only got 24 GB for audio recording). If you need 16 GB for photoshop, get it, if you don't 8 GB should be fine for everything else, including all games you can throw at it, better investing the money in an SSD boot drive, your mobo has SATA 6Gb/s ports on it.

As for cooling, a ruddy great heatsink can be cheaper and perform about the same as an integrated water cooler like the H100. My Noctua NH-D14 is about on par with that in terms of cooling performance going off benches, only problem being you need low profile RAM. AFAIK, the integrated water things are just as easy to install as a standard CPU cooler.

Hope that helps.

brendanvista · 07-12-2012, 08:30 | posts: 175 | Location: Oregon

I just bought the FX-8150 and the 990FXA-UD3 and 8 gigs of ram. I just got 8 gigs cus it's good enough for what I'm doing right now. I have an SSD too, which helps speed things up. As for cooling, my friend sold me his H60 for $35. It works quite well. In a 75 degree farinhite room, the cpu idles at 26c. After half an hour of prime 95 on all cores, I'm at 46c in the same room. The H100 would be plenty nice.

Athlonite · 07-27-2012, 06:10 | posts: 776 | Location: Hawkes Bay

have you installed the two MS patches for the 8150 for win7

you'll get a nice little speed boost

first one deals with threading which win7 doesn't quite do right for the FX CPU's
second one deals with core parking in lightly threaded situations

as to 32GB of ram unless your bulding a video production PC or want to run several VM's then you'll probably never use it so really its a waste of time and money which could go to better GPUs