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Good cooling for FX-8350?

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I'm probably going to be upgrading to an AMD FX-8350, as it's the highest chip I can shove in my current MB. What would be a sufficient cooling method if I were just planning on running it on the motherboard's overclocking speed? I had previously gotten one of those arctic coolers when I thought I was going to be running an intel chip, but they are friggn monsters. I don't even know if I could fit it my case, and it's not a small one at all...
 
Any one of the liquid cooling setups should work fine. I have a Zalman LQ310 on my 8320 overclocked to 4ghz and haven't had any issues. You'll probably want something a little beefier for a 8350, perhaps a Corsair H80 or so.
 
Is there much danger of liquid leaking out? I've never used one, but I've heard people say it's happened in the past. Not sure if it's a valid concern or not, but my CPU is physically at the top of the tower. So if it were to leak, it's going all over my GPU and PSU...
 
A couple of days ago, I installed a FX-8350, and used a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo heatsink. On stock settings, temperature (as measured by Core Temp) doesn't get above the mid-30s when using a Linpack-based benchmark loading all eight cores at 100%. I haven't tried overclocking (and don't plan to, since the stock speed is more than enough for my purposes at this time), but it looks like there's plenty of headroom. And this is a relatively inexpensive heatsink.
 
I have my FX under a H110, can't complain about temps. I've used several different closed loop coolers and never had an issue.
 
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