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    How good is this Heatsink?

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    BIOS:fan speed-medium.

    put some good thermal paste in there if you can aswell if you get the chance.

    still, big cooler=probably not worth it (still unlock it though, if it stable and it likely is, its litterally double the performance and that cooler is used on a quad core phenom so itll cope with an athlon dual core fine)

    If you're talking about her old one she doesn't have it anymore. Thank God. And it already has some MX-2, which is pretty good.

    How good is this Heatsink?

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    Ahaa, the am3heatsink as used on such processors as the athlon x4 640 (and my phenom x4 960t for some unholy reason).

    TBH it's probably not worth the money to get a better heatsink, EVEN IF you wanted to upgrade cpu later you'd be wanting a new board, EVEN unlocked.... that heatsink shouldn't get hot or loud enough to be a problem. BTW Reading your board manual you might be able to unlock it on that board, in OC tweaker enable "Unlock Cpu Core" and give it a minor voltage bump and see if it starts, boots and stress test (and so on, same as overclocking)

    If for some reason it does get too loud for your liking check your bios for a lower fan speed option like "silence/quiet" mode or something, failing that use a fan speed reducer, they cost like £5/$5 though i cant imagine this needs to be done.

    The idea of putting a tower cooler on what should be a cool and quiet (pun not intended) single core sounds so wrong  :blink:

    My grandma gets a little nuts. Her old one used to have a MONSTER of a Cooler Master cooler that was identical to stock, but it sat around 1000-1200RPM, but then when it got hot, it would kick up to full tilt and sound like it was taking off. She asked my dad what it was the one day and he said that it was just getting hot and that's how it was programmed to work so it was quiet in most cases. She likes quiet and cool now. And I'm not going to OC it since she would kill me.

    How good is this Heatsink?

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    Tower coolers all pretty much the same, there is no "best" but there are bad onces, they generally share the same design... 1#stack of fins, 2#heatpipes that touch the heatsink, 3#stick on a fan, 4#charge £££...

    There isnt such a thing as "the best cooler" because it depends what cpu you have, what thermal paste you use (though thats pretty much the same, no "best" but there are bad ones) how you apply it etc etc.

    as linus has said cooling is about surface area and airflow and just that, if you can conduct/convect heat away from the cpu via a solid heatsink, heatpipes, cooling blocks with watercooling etc and then get that heat into an array of fins (radiator, tower heatsink..), the larger the better... and the get a fan to move it away quickly, efficiently and preferably quietly....thats good cooling

    most tower coolers will come close to within a degree or so (id say 3-4*c is next to nothing considering its probably beatin any stock heatsink by 10+*c), the hyper 212 evo is popular for these reason...

    1#It works very well, its only a few degrees behind the biggest coolers such as the nh-d14, be quiet dark rock advanced 2 and so on, these big coolers weight anywhere from 600grams to over a kilo/1000grams/2.2lb, thats alot of weight hanging on a socket....

    2#its a clean and simple design, theres no gaudy bright green fan (or brown) no finicky mounting setup, its just bolt on and go, it has 4 heatpipes which do the jobvery well and the fans decent (if its loud use a reducer, it its too hot, switch to watercooling)

    3# its cheap, in the uk its about £30 so about $45 in the states or whever you are and other coolers start at this price and go up, buying something cheaper usually means your losing out somewhere, coolermaster know we like their cooler and that price is an issue, they read forums.... so they make sure retailers price it correctly to remain popular and keep sales up.

    I don't like coolermaster as a company, theyre not as good as people think they are (cases, powersupplys) I think for the money there are better options, but with the hyper 212 they hit the nail on the head,  its onyl recently occured to me that an improvment they could do/should do is swtichign the heatpipe oriantation from being 4 pipes on each side of the heatsink into 2 rows (front and back), i think that would improve it maybe 5% but no heatsink manufacturer has done this yet except on the BIG coolers i mentioned before.

    back on topic, the sempron shouldnt be loud...got a pic of the heatsink? 

     

     

    This is the one i got from a sempron 140 that i used briefly on the 215 and even ran tests with a fx4100. its the best stock heatsink ive used. im unsure if its am2 or am3 (should be am2+ish) it has a delta fan and is silent...pretty much literally, untill you put it at 100% fan speed then it could blow an oil tanker off course..

    Oh my... That is one MONSTER heatsink for stock... The pic of the heatsink I currently use is below this (obviously).

     
    It does well. At about 50% speed which is less than 2000 RPM, I believe, it will keep around 40C under full load. But, I want something better.

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    5 million users saying "Evo" to follow (including me)

    cheap+great=evo

    expensibe+awesome=h100i (or h220)

    expensive but the best-watercooling

    for a sempron....who cares, buy a fan speed reducer or something a sempron shouldnt get that hot unless the fan is off, I tried an athlon x2 215 with an am2 heatsink (with the 80mm delta fan) but with the fan unplugged but attached and the heatsink active passively, in a HTPC case in general usage it only went up to 60*c.....with the fan on but unplugged

    edit: get this board the M5A78L-M/USB3< unclock that sempron, overclock it to 3.5ghz overclock that 6570 to 800mhz core and 1000mhz memory and for all intents and purposes your sig rig would be..(theoretically speaking)

    amd athlon x2 445@3.5ghz+6670 (with half the memory bandwidth).

    nice little gaming rig to play skyrim, bioshock infinate etc on, i know because ive had a sempron 140, an athlon 215, a 6670 and unlcocked and overclocked where possible.

    I might get an Athlon II X3 somethingorother off NewEgg eventually.

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