Pemalite said:
disolitude said:
While the FX9590 is an absolute non-consumer oriented product with a non-consumer friendly price, the 9370 priced at 329-349 depending where you look is not too bad. But like I said before, you could probably buy an 8320 for 160 and overclock it to 4.7ghz to match a 9370.
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I haven't had a chance to play with the 8320 yet, but I do have an FX 8120 in another system and it's been sitting on 4.8ghz for the last year or so.
It's performance at that speed was equivalent to a Phenom 2 x6 at 4ghz with a 3ghz NB clock that it replaced. (So I would expect Piledriver to do better!)
Value wise it's not a bad proposition as long as you don't go for AMD's greatest and they really do hold their own against Intel's quads if you do allot of Multi-tasking. (I.E. xSplit + gaming.)
If it wasn't for the fact I do more than just gaming, I would probably be very happy with a FX in my primary machine.
CGI-Quality said:
CORSAIR Hydro Series H60 (CWCH60) High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
Hope that helps! 
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Do a custom water loop! :D
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Yeah i breifly rocked an 8120 when it came out. was a little dissppinted since before it I had a fully watercooled i7 950 but it was great for overclocking.
The problem with watercooling these days is that you really have to go all out and watercool everything or just stick with AIOs for the CPU. However recent intel CPUs (3770k, 4770k) really dont benefit from watercooling much. 2600k was able to do 5ghz and beyond as long as you cool it properly but these new ones tend to crap out at 4.8/4.9 no matter what you do or how you cool it.
On the AMD side, the cpu does benefit from watercoolin but even at 5.2 ghz, it bottlenecks the GPUs with a proper GTX 780 sli that are overclocked and watercooled.
