how much thermal resistance is necessary for a AMD? OCed?

[eLiu]

I am probably getting a 1.2ghz@266 cpu...(tho a 1.0ghz isnt out of the question yet)

anyway, how much thermal resistance do I need? is 0.79 C/W (Celsius/watt) good enough? What if I overclock? Will that still be sufficient?

The unit itself is a "OCZ Glacier2"...which seems to be manufactured by Dynatron...the two prodcuts look identical *confused*

pic of OCZ unit: http://www.dansdata.com/coolercomp.htm#OCZ Glacier2

pic of Dynatron: http://www.tcwo.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/st_prod.html?p_prodid=721&sid=1gi2Ty0Ga9ngE90

at any rate, tcwo requires that i buy a cooler from them in order to get a 1yr warranty on my cpu (which i want, b/c im not necessarily OCing right away...at least, not yet)

Anyway, if .79 is not enough for an OC (to say, 1.3-1.5), would .5-.6 be? (PC Power and Cooling K1-A)

thanks,
-eric

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

eLiu,

Alright my boy, it's time to teach you how to link.

Here is the format you use. Please substitute brackets "[" for "{".

{L=OCZ unit}http://www.dansdata.com/coolercomp.htm#OCZ%20Glacier2{/L}

{L=Dynatron unit}http://www.tcwo.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/st_prod.html?p_prodid=721&sid=1gi2Ty0Ga9ngE90{/L}


The finished links will look like this:

OCZ unit

Dynatron unit

 

[eLiu]

aahhh...ic ic

thanks starcutter

now...hopefully someone will answer the thermal question thingy hehe

-eric

 

[jamarno]

You want as little thermal resistance as possible, and if 0.79C/W is the resistance between the heatsink and ambient air, that's very, very good. But more likely it's the resistance between the chip package and heatsink or between the chip and the heatsink.

 

[bacillus]

isn't resistance futile!
sorry, couldn't help myself.