However, where, you mount the Rad is important and depending on your Motherboard you might have to look at cooling of your VRMs. CPU coolers usually play a part in cooling the VRM's by stirring the air around.
If you go with liquid cooling for the CPU, cooling the VRMs can be done pretty easily. I have even seen suggestions of using double sided tape to stick the stock cooler fan (not heat sink) on the motherboard I/O to blow on the VRM area. Just don't choke off air to your VRMs .
I too would suggest not investing in AM3+ platform. Zen (or Ryzen) is coming and if you want to upgrade even your DDR3 RAM can't be used.
Hold on, so you are swapping in old stuff. I.E. you already have AM3+ platform. If you can get the CPU for cheap, and you should be able to then it MIGHT be worth it.
If you don't have AM3+ platform, put the cooler money into a better platform.
Explosivebicycle reacted to Sabbilon in Will my cpu be ok with this cooler
