Cooling necessary?

[cnjmorris]

Okay I got a Phenom II x4 940 Deneb chip, stretching my budget in favor of the 940 black edition over the 920.

I would like to overclock in the future but right now I don't see the need and I'm wondering if I can run the chip with stock fan if I leave the chip at stock speeds until I can affort to spend some money on a nice cooling fan.

I saw a nice cooler at $20 down from $30, but with the $7 shipping it kinda kills the savings. Anyway, let me know what you think. I mostly play World of Warcraft, no FPS or anything maxed out.

 

[LoneNinja]

You'll be just fine, AMD wouldn't ship a cooler if it couldn't keep the thing cool. Besides I hear the Phenoms come with rather nice coolers.

 

[Denithor]

Should be fine, just don't overdo the overclocking with a stock cooler.

 

[cnjmorris]

Thanks for the input. I've never upgraded a chip before unless I also upgraded the motherboard, etc... so I wanted to splurge and get the higher priced 940 but doing that means I don't have extra money to spend another $30-$40 on a cooler, compound, and shipping.

 

[garritynet]

Let us know how well it OCs on the stock cooler.

 

[NXIL]

I would like to overclock in the future but right now I don't see the need and I'm wondering if I can run the chip with stock fan if I leave the chip at stock speeds until I can affort to spend some money on a nice cooling fan.

Hi, hi think he said he is going to run stock with the stock heatsink/fan: 100% perfectly good. I think I read that the CPU you are getting comes with a nice copper heatsink.

From a newegg reviews dated 2-10 to 2/12 (out of several hundred rave reviews....almost everyone who got this CPU loves it):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16819103471

+ 5Rating WOW Pros: Very nice. Easy install and it runs cool. No need for overclocking. If you are a gamer, you will appreciate it. Stock heatsink is good. It's nice and quiet and keeps cool. Everything you need included. No need to purchase thermal compound.

Stock heatsink is nice and beefy though on the smaller side compared to aftermarket. No complaints. It does the job and it's included. Has built in copper base and heatpipes plus pre-applied thermal compound.

Stock cooler is nice. Copper heat pipes and aluminum fin block with decent fan

Some even mention O/C with stock heatsink....anyway, stock unit is just fine...enjoy!

HTH

NXIL

 

[someone16]

Does the CPU ship with the heatsink with heatpipes like this one?
http://www.frostytech.com/arti...iew.cfm?articleID=1962

It basically does as well as the other aftermarket coolers, but at a slightly higher noise level.

 

[Denithor]

Stock heatsinks do a fair job cooling the chip, just not as effective & quiet as aftermarket models.

I was able to clock up my e6400 to 3GHz (from 2.13GHz) with the stock heatsink and only saw temps around 60C under heavy load. Ran that way perfectly fine for over a year before I upgraded to the e8400 I have now. Which is running 3.6GHz under an older first-gen stock cooler (just like the one from my e6400) and never gets above 55C under load.

So you should probably be able to run ~3.6GHz without worrying too much about heat, just keep an eye on the temps & you'll be fine.