FOP 32-1 question

[jcwagers]

Hello! I have a friend who is thinking about upgrading to a 1 gig T-bird or maybe even higher. My dad's girlfriend is also looking at the 1 gig T-bird or higher. She already has the FOP 32-1 and I had my friend order one too. My question is...how high are the FOP 32-1's rated? What's the top processor that they would probably do a good job of cooling? Anybody running one on a 1.2 gig T-bird? If so....how are your temps? I'm just trying to get a little info to see if they should stick with a 1 gig or less or if the FOP 32-1 will still provide adequate cooling if they should go with a 1.1 or 1.2 T-bird. Thanks in advance!

jcwagers

 

[spamboy]

The FOP32-1 is way more powerful than the heatsink AMD includes with it's retail chips. It should be fine.

 

[alpineranger]

If all you're going for is cooling, you can get even better than the 32-1. The fop 38 comes quickly to mind, but of course there are others.

 

[conlan]

the FOP-32 will work fine with either of those cpus , it is the same heat-sink as the FOP-38 except with a 4700 rpm fan instead of the obnoxiously loud 7000 rpm fan on the 38, it cools within a degree or two of the 38 as well. edit- it also is AMD approved

 

[turtle219]

are u overclocking? if not, then u can buy a cheaper HSF... like taisol, the FOP 32-1 is for overclockers since it provides really good cooling, but its kinda loud and expensive... but since u already have one, then, YES it will keep the cpu cool, very cool.

 

[toph99]

the Fop32-1 is fine, so long as the case has good airflow. you could have the world's best heatsin, but if there's no air circulation in the case it won't do jack

 

[shiznut123]

It will do a mighty fine job of cooling that T-bird. If you get arctic silver than it will perform even better.