Does Athlon X2 4200+ AM2 come with heatpipe heatsink?

[zaku178]

I know the x2 3800+ AM2 comes with the crappy aluminum and the x2 5000+ AM2 has the heatpipe heatsink but does the x2 4200+ AM2 come with the heatpipe heatsink? Anyone purchase one and knows the answer? If it does id go for the x2 4200+ thanks

 

[Averox]

I'm wondering this myself but for socket 939.

I'm planning on getting a X2 3800 and X2 4200, because apparently the 4200 should come with the new heatpipe heatsink. But I'm also hearing otherwise. So has anyone recently bought a X2 4200 retail and care to share what type their heatsink was?

 

[the Chase]

Same question here. If the 4200+ has the heatpipe cooler I go with that. If not, I go 3800+. (AM2 for me). Anyone know for sure?

 

[Budman]

$11.95 AMD heatpipe. 🙂

 

[CoasterGuy]

Neither of my 4200's came with a heatpipe cooler. I have a 939 and AM2 models.

Interesting. Should I have gotten this in the box with my retail cpu's?

 

[cmrmrc]

mine is coming sometimes this week, ill tell you when ill get it...

 

[polypterus]

Originally posted by: CoasterGuy
Neither of my 4200's came with a heatpipe cooler. I have a 939 and AM2 models.

Interesting. Should I have gotten this in the box with my retail cpu's?

There are several threads about this over at the AMD forums (here's one). Apparently AMD will send you a heatpipe hsf if you didn't receive one with your 4200. From what I can tell though most don't come with it, even though some sources say they are supposed to. The reviews at Newegg complain about the hsf being small and inadequate, so I doubt they're talking about the heatpipe one. Maybe the older ones did? I don't know, but I don't think you'll get one unless you call AMD.

 

[stevty2889]

My socket 939 4200+ came with the heatpipe cooler. It works pretty well too, 51c load at 2.618ghz isn't bad at all for a stock heatsink.

 

[BlueWeasel]

If you're looking at getting one, make sure you get the new quad heatpipe cooler with the 4 pipes all on one side. It cools much better than the older one with only 2 pipes.

 

[lumbus]

My 4200+ came with a heatpipe cooler.. But that was a year ago when they cost $555. 😛

 

[wolfman11]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
If you're looking at getting one, make sure you get the new quad heatpipe cooler with the 4 pipes all on one side. It cools much better than the older one with only 2 pipes.

QFT

 

[Averox]

From what I heard on AMD.com forums, someone mentioned that the the heatpipe heatsink only comes with the 1MB cache per core processors and the 512KB per core processors come with the old aluminum. Granted from the NE reviews, everyone is complaining about getting a better heatsink. Went with some X2 3800+ chips and will buy from heatsinkoutlet for the heatpipe heatsink.