AMD Heatsink Question

MoHa

Junior Member
Jul 4, 2002
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I just put together my sytem a couple of months ago and have a question regarding heatsink/fan. The specs of my system are

AMD Athalon XP 2100+ processor
Giga-Byte GA-7DXR+ (AMD? 761 AGPset)
512 PC2100 DDRAM (Mushkin 1 module)
60 GB IBM HD and 30 GB Maxtor HD

My system is always very loud and when it first starts it makes an aweful noise for about 5 mintues then it goes away, but still continues to be very loud. I am currnetly using a Coolermaster heatsink/fan which shipped with my processor. I am wondering if buying a new fan would help my sytem performance, at times i think my system is getting too hot but I do not know how to be sure. Please let me know if you have any suggestions. I do not know anything about heatsink and fans so please let me know about an exact modle and if anyone else has had these problems. Thank you very much for your help.

 

spanky

Lifer
Jun 19, 2001
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i have a retail xp2000+... the fan from amd is rather quiet compared to most others. i also have an alph 6035... that is pretty quiet, but i dunno if it is speced to cool an xp2100+.
 

amdskip

Lifer
Jan 6, 2001
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Is there a fan on that motherboard to cool the chipset? What about a fan on the video card? These fans are usually very loud and can be annoying as heck.