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Need quick answer: Safe to use AMD boxed heatsink?

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I am setting up my first Athlon 64 for a friend and we got a boxed 2800. We are wondering if it is safe to use the standard boxed heatsink and the putty that comes with it...

In other words, is the cooling on that thing ok for a standard clocked 64, or do we need to get artic silver?

Thanks
 
I am not a big fan of retail cooling but it will work just fine at stock speeds. I wouldn't recommend overclocking that's all.
 
The thermal putty it comes with works. AS is more cosmetic than it is necessary, but yeah, there is a bit of improvement if you use AS. But pretty much any putty is acceptable.
 
Lol, AMD wouldn't provide heatsinks and thermal compound that wasn't safe!

I've had no trouble with these retail AMD hsfs:

1x Athlon XP 1900+
2x Athlon XP 2500+
1x Athlon 64 3000+
 
You can probably do a modest overclock with the stock heatsink, especially if it's a 90nm processor. I recall many of the early articles on the 90nm A64's had pretty descent results with the stock heatsinks.

Do a little searching and you should get a good idea of what is reasonable with a stock solution.
 
AMD's stock A64 HSFs are nice; it has a nice, tight pad(so tight that you have to worry about ripping the CPU out of the socket when you remove the HSF), and the same HSF is powerful enough to cool all their A64 CPUs(my 3400+ @ 2.5ghz doesn't break 49C).
 
Thanks for the replies guys. We got it in there and it seems to be working fine.
 
Originally posted by: Deleted member 4644
I am setting up my first Athlon 64 for a friend and we got a boxed 2800. We are wondering if it is safe to use the standard boxed heatsink and the putty that comes with it...

In other words, is the cooling on that thing ok for a standard clocked 64, or do we need to get artic silver?

Thanks
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They offer a 3 year warranty on this and you feel the need to ask this question?.......
:frown:
 
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