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Search Tech-Forums - link takes you to our Forum's search page. Note: The following is only a text archive! To view the actual forum discussion, please visit our website at http://www.tech-forums.net Pages:1 Heatsink for AMD Athlon 64 X2(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)Posted by: suppafreak I am going to purchase the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ or 4400+ CPU once the prices come down later this month and was wondering if the AMD stock heatsink is enough to cool the CPU. I am going to use it mostly for Video conversion and that requires a lot of CPU power. Can you suggest any that are good? I was looking at Thermalright XP-90C but that one requires additional fan and also kind of heavy. Maybe there are better ones that already come with the fan and compatible with AMD 64 X2 CPUS. Thanks Posted by: CrazeD Yes, the stock coolers work very very well. Posted by: Lord AnthraX I was so impressed when I looked at mine they are really nice for stock and all. :amazed: Posted by: Chazzer3 Well, when you buy it, you will receive the Advanced heatpipe cooler, (I assume), which will mean that your stock cooler will be better than most 3rd part coolers, (lucky you!), so it will not be neccessary. Charlie - Posted by: suppafreak Cool, I guess will see then. Posted by: P.P. Mguire Yea, the X2 stock coolers are really great. I still went and got a Thermaltake Copper112 though. Posted by: suppafreak [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by P.P. Mguire [/i] [B]Yea, the X2 stock coolers are really great. I still went and got a Thermaltake Copper112 though. [/B][/QUOTE] WOW. That is one big A** heatsink. I'll try the stock heatsink first and then will see if I need to upgrade. Posted by: P.P. Mguire I dont like the word stock in my vocabulary so i dont have stock anything really. Not to mention i already had that HSF for my Socket A setup. Posted by: CntdwnToExtn yes, i was very impressed w/ my stock heatsink. went from 2.0ghz @ 24C to 2.6ghz @ 31C now... i have a 4400x2 on my 3800x2 and it dropped it back down to 24C :) :) :)..but i'm only at 2.5 right now due to complications Posted by: jonny_uk yes the stock cooling on mine is great and does a good job:D Posted by: Spartan I use a Zalman CNPS9500 to cool my processor. Works REALLY well, but the stock heatsink that AMD provides is also rather good. Posted by: Eranda The Athlon 64 X2 is the first dual-core desktop CPU manufactured by AMD. It is fundamentally a processor consisting of two Athlon 64 cores joined together on one die with some supplementary control logic. The cores share one dual-channel memory controller, are based on the E-stepping model of Athlon 64 and, depending on the model, have either 512 or 1024 KiB of L2-Cache per core. The X2 is capable of decoding SSE3 instructions (except those few specific to Intel's architecture), so it can run and benefit from software optimizations that were previously only supported by Intel chips. This enhancement is not unique to the X2, and is also available in the recently released Venice and San Diego single core Athlon 64's. AMD officially started shipping the Athlon 64 X2 at Computex, on 1st June 2005. Posted by: Eranda CPU Cores Toledo (90 nm SOI) Dual-core CPU CPU-Stepping: E6 L1-Cache: 64 + 64 KiB (Data + Instructions), per core L2-Cache: 1024 KiB fullspeed, per core MMX, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Cool'n'Quiet, NX Bit Socket 939, HyperTransport (1000 MHz, HT1000) VCore: 1.35 V - 1.4 V Power Consumption (TDP): 110 Watt max (4400+: 89 or 110 Watt depending on version) First Release: 21 April 2005 Clockrate:: 2000 - 2400 MHz 4400+: 2200 MHz (ADA4400DAA5CD) 4800+: 2400 MHz (ADA4800DAA5CD) Posted by: P.P. Mguire THats all fine and dandy but pecs of the processors have nothing to do with this thread. Posted by: suppafreak Not sure what was the two posts about the processor specs, but thanks anyway. Posted by: Spartan yah, that was pretty random...anyway, you should find the stocks to work just fine vBulletin Copyright ©2000 - 2003, Jelsoft Enterprises Limited. PPC Management vB Easy Archive Final - Created by Xenon |