New Athlon 1800+....heatsink question

[dmw16]

My xmas present just got here...a new 1800+ just arrived at my door. I bought the retail box because it was only $15 more and it came with a heatsink. But I was feeling the weight of the box(my mom wont let me open it) and the box doesnt feel very heavy for having a heatsink to cool a 1.53ghz CPU. So my question is this, so long as I dont plan on overclocking is the retail heatsink w/ a delta fan on it good enough? I dont wanna put it all together xmas day and then find out my cooling is insufficent.
thanks,
-doug

 

[dmw16]

bump

 

[Rectalfier]

Sure that will be enough. But why would you want to put a loud ass delta fan on a crappy heatsink? You would have mediocre cooling, but heinous noise levels.

 

[dmw16]

Right now Im using the stock heatsink and the delta fan and temp changes are noticable with the delta fan. The reason i didnt get a different heatsink is because I had a horrible time with my last non-stock heatsink. I tried using AS2 but it never made good contact and the system was never stable. I guess I never made good contact with the chip. I was lookin at the PAL8045 because it has those bolts. Any thoughts?
thanks,
-doug

 

[rbaibich]

Get the TAISOL CGK742092 here. Great HSF with very low noise levels.

 

[flood]

Flood recommends the alpha pal6035 which can be had here for $19.99 +s/h

 

[777joee]

<< My xmas present just got here...a new 1800+ just arrived at my door. I bought the retail box because it was only $15 more and it came with a heatsink. But I was feeling the weight of the box(my mom wont let me open it) and the box doesnt feel very heavy for having a heatsink to cool a 1.53ghz CPU. So my question is this, so long as I dont plan on overclocking is the retail heatsink w/ a delta fan on it good enough? I dont wanna put it all together xmas day and then find out my cooling is insufficent.
thanks,
-doug >>



You answered your own question. If the retail box comes with the heatsink/fan combo do you think that AMD wants any of them to fail? I use them all the time and I have yet to have one fail. Not to mention that way you get the 3 year warrenty.