Luke warm Microcenter 8320e 50ar

[rhansen5_99]

Just a heads up Microcenter has 8320e and 8350s for $50 \ 70 At $30 b&m only.


Might be warm to upgrade an existing am3 board, also get $30 off an AMD board so if you have ryzen and want a different board maybe a deal

These are still good for Plex servers and VM type stuff

 

[Burticus]

Not a bad deal for what they are. I have one I need to pull off a dead board and sell. I'd consider keeping it but AM3+ motherboards are drying up quick and I refuse to spend any real money on one.

 

[vividshock]

Its not lukewarm when these heaters run hot. Winter is coming so I'd stock up on these bad boys.

 

[quiktake]

Mine tops out at 45c with stock fan. A tad noisy but not too shabby. Makes 50 cents a day in my mining rig so it pays for itself and it's electricity.

Finding a decent motherboard new is the bigger challenge.

 

[buttons]

Mine is mining too, much to my disbelief it makes the same amount as my Ryzen 1700 with nicehash mining client. I did replace the stock heatsink with an AMD wraith cooler for some piece and quiet. I paid $115AR with asrock 970a 3.1 motherboard

two geforce 1080s with power target at 80% and this mining -- entire system is drawing 520 watts at the wall.

 

[Burticus]

So this thread made me want to see what the deal was with my bad FX-8320e system. I assumed it was the motherboard, it had stopped posting months ago. But yesterday I pulled out the mobo (asrock 970m something), put it on the test bench with a loose ancient 350w Antec power supply and it fired right up. Maybe it was the power supply in the system, but it was spinning everything else up... curious.

So I guess I won't be running out to buy one of the last of these, since now I have a working spare, LOL.

Going to put it in something a little more permanent and torture it for a week. If it lives, I'll either put it back in rotation or sell it.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Its not lukewarm when these heaters run hot. Winter is coming so I'd stock up on these bad boys.

WTF? How do these run hot at stock?
My 8320 non-Es run perfectly comfortable at stock speeds.

We're not talking about an FX-9590 here...