AMD Athlon 64 Stock Cooler

[Confusednewbie1552]

Does the stock fan of the AMD Athlon 64's and FX 53 decent? I may do some very mild overclocking, but I will be gaming a lot and leaving my computer on for a long time and be playing games for a long time.

 

[Algere]

It's decent enough even with mild OC'ing in mind. Now if your talking sound-wise it can get loud under full load.

 

[Confusednewbie1552]

So what heatsink/fan/thermal paste would you reccomend? I don't enjoy fans as loud as lawn mowers.

 

[orangat]

What is mild oc'ing? 10%? I would never oc CPUs with their stock h/s unless
you know for sure the same exact stock h/s is used in a higher model.
I'm the type who needs to know everything is rock solid instead of chasing after 3 extra fps.

EDIT: Thermal paste - use artic silver v5 (svc has cheaper shipping), its good and only 6 bucks shipped.
The OCZ/Compusa silver pastes were found to contain no silver - major scam there.

 

[Algere]

Originally posted by: Confusednewbie1552
So what heatsink/fan/thermal paste would you reccomend? I don't enjoy fans as loud as lawn mowers.

I haven't tried any other after-market HS/F. I can however say that under load the stock AMD HS/F spins @ about 6000 RPM's and the temps never go past 51-53 C keeping in mind my room temps haven't ever reached above 90 F / 32 C since I got this processor. Also the thermal pad on the stock AMD HS/F is comparable to Arctic Silver 3/5 too.

 

[Confusednewbie1552]

Ok forget what I said about overclocking. What would be the quietest yet coolest fan/heatsink for the AMD Athlon 64 (Socket 939) and the FX-53 (socket 939).

 

[CidHighwind]

I'm not sure off the top of my head. check out NewEgg for the best combination of Low dB, and High Airflow & RPM.

 

[Operandi]

Originally posted by: Confusednewbie1552
Ok forget what I said about overclocking. What would be the quietest yet coolest fan/heatsink for the AMD Athlon 64 (Socket 939) and the FX-53 (socket 939).

For heatsinks I would recomend the Alpha PAL8150 or Thermalright SLK-948U.

As for the fans, that depends. Can your motherboard dynamicly control fan speeds? If iit can I'd get somthing like this Sunon and let either the system control the fans speed or use SpeedFan to control the fans RPMs in relation to CPU temp. If you can't control the fan's RPM's this Y.S. Tech lets you go from 800-3300 RPM's.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: Algere

Originally posted by: Confusednewbie1552
So what heatsink/fan/thermal paste would you reccomend? I don't enjoy fans as loud as lawn mowers.

I haven't tried any other after-market HS/F. I can however say that under load the stock AMD HS/F spins @ about 6000 RPM's and the temps never go past 51-53 C keeping in mind my room temps haven't ever reached above 90 F / 32 C since I got this processor. Also the thermal pad on the stock AMD HS/F is comparable to Arctic Silver 3/5 too.

6000 RPM's on a stock Athlon 64 Algere? 😕

 

[MoobyTheGoldenCalf]

I am OC'ing 10% on my 3500+ with the stock HSF & artic silver 5. Temps never go over 60C at full load & system is stable.

BTW - I've never seen my CPU fan never go over 3200.

 

[Illissius]

Check out Zalman's CNPS7000A-Cu and AlCu, they work for pretty much all the more recent sockets (A, 478, 754, 940, very likely 939 as well though I haven't checked). They're silent at low RPM and have very minimal noise even at high, and are very comparable to the Thermalright stuff in cooling performance. I haven't seen any review which made me conclusively decide that one or the other is better, which is mostly because there's so many variables involved - what fan speeds to use, what fan to use in the first place with the TRs, Cu or AlCu, SLK or SP, processor to test it on, method to measure temps with, et cetera, et cetera - though if anyone can find me such a review, it would be much appreciated.

 

[imported_chrisbtx]

I have the CNPS7000A-Cu and it rocks. Very quiet compared to other HSFs, especially the stock one (that thing was LOUD), and cools better as well, as I've gone from idle temps of 43-45C with stock HSF at full speed to 39-41C with Zalman CNPS 7000A-Cu at full speed. I definitely recommend it 😉.

 

[oldman420]

I haven't tried any other after-market HS/F. I can however say that under load the stock AMD HS/F spins @ about 6000 RPM's and the temps never go past 51-53 C keeping in mind my room temps haven't ever reached above 90 F / 32 C since I got this processor. Also the thermal pad on the stock AMD HS/F is comparable to Arctic Silver 3/5 too.[/quote]

those temps are high and any fan spinning that fast has to be more prone to failure. the stock thermal pad on amd and intel hsf is NOT comparable to as5 the first thing i would do is ditch the stock hsf and get a zalman cnps7000cu hsf that will keep it at 40-42 at idle i would shut down my system if it was running in the 50s esp with a high priced cpu.
not yelling here i have just through expereince gotten to know the nature of computer cooling