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New Athlon 1800+....heatsink question

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dmw16

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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
 
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.
 
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
 


<< 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. 🙂
 
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