Should I get the FX 8150 version with water cooler? Overclocking ability?

[holygamer]

I could only overclock the FX 8120 8 core from 3.1 to 3.8 Ghz with a £30 motherboard.

The FX 8150 has an 8 core 3.6 Ghz CPU. I'm doing video restoration and I need every bit of Ghz I can get. What speed do you think I could overclock it to if I bought a decent 3 star scan motherboard such as the Gigabyte Motherboard GA-990FXA-UD3?

Should I get the stock FX 8150 or the one that comes with a water cooler?

Does the water cooler make the CPU less noisy or is it just there to lower the temperature for the purpose of overclocking more?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

AMD CPUs tend to overclock better if temperatures are lower. The motherboard you linked to is for Intel CPUs. As in the other thread I suggested this motherboard:

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/gigab...-%28x16%29-atx

It seems even with an FX8120,you can hit a decent overclock with the motherboard:

http://www.overclock.net/t/1237551/s...yte-990fxa-ud3

Looking at this review,the cooler is basically an Asetek Kuhler 920:

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1743/1/

This cooler is £68 alone on Scan,meaning the bundle saves you around £16.

However,the FX8350 should be at least 15% faster for video encoding,perhaps more IMHO.

[holygamer]

Just wondering if I should get the Gigabyte Motherboard GA-990FXA-UD3 which has 3 stars instead of the Gigabyte GA-990FXA-D3 Motherboard that you suggested which is 2 stars? What's the difference between them?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The GA-990FXA-UD3 has a better VRM section which is actually cooled.