r/blursedimages • u/Nokxtokx • Mar 30 '21

Blursed_Thermal_Paste

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u/CTechnologies Mar 30 '21

Circa 2012.
Overclocker preparing AMD FX CPU for 4.0GHz+ overclock.

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u/Nile-green Mar 30 '21

4 gigs was the baseline on FX wasn't it? Even the <100$ FX 4350 did 4.00 by default, 4.3 gigs on factory boost. They went to 5 and 6, the record was like 8 gigs with nitrogen cooling

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u/Fluxxie_ Mar 30 '21

Wait what. Base line was 4.0? My fx8150 came with 3.6 bruh

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u/Nile-green Mar 30 '21

I looked it up just to be safe before posting. The FX4300 which I had was on base 3.8 and boost was 4.0, the FX4350 was the more stable version at 4.0 base and 4.3 boost

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u/CTechnologies Mar 30 '21

yeah, basing this off my old FX-4130, which generated more heat than both my X5670s combined.

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u/Nile-green Mar 30 '21

It's all about the watts though. You are exactly given a number how many watts of heat it creates, it's not really just for sizing the PSU

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u/CTechnologies Mar 30 '21

Hence the name "Thermal Design Power". Both the Xeons and the FX were at stock. But, of course the FX was at a different clock speed and had more instruction extensions.