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Retail (stock) HSF for AMD T-Bird: Must you replace it?

PrelateBishop

PrelateBishop

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Building a new 'puter sporting a 1GHz T-Bird and Asus A7V. Apparently issues abound with heat causing all kinds of grief. Therefore, can I safely and reliably use the stock HSF that comes with a retail AMD processor if I am not going to overclock?

I'm using an IW-S500 case with the stock power supply fan and installing two Panasonic Panaflo 80mm L1A's (21db / 24cfm ... one for intake in the front and other for rear exhaust). Noise was a concern, hence the decision for these fans.

If I have to replace the stock HSF, I was strongly considering the Alpha PAL High Performance Package found at nerdsbyte.com as an alternative.
 
yes, you can us the stock retail heatsink supplied with the chip. but if you want to 'prolong' your chips life due to heat...having a bigger aftermarket hs/fan would surely help 🙂
 
As the retail fan is a taisol 733092 it should perform well. If you think the thunderbird get too hot not only the alpha but also the taisol 742092 is a very good choice and also not very loud.
 
My recommendation to you:
Get the Alpha pal6035 with the SUNON 23cfm fan.
Wire it doen to 7v, and you should be set.

You most definetely don't want a 46.5db fan in your case when you're trying to keep things quiet 🙂
 
I know the calculations might not be correct, but I'm at 39C when in windows after an hour or two on a 1ghz Tbird.
 
You're in Luck! I got the almost same setup with a In Win S500 case and a 1.1 Ghz TBird supported by the Asus A7V(also using stock HSF).

Apparently AMD supplied me with the Taisol 733 HSF as stock. The fan is quiet, but it made a "whirly" sound when air passed over the Heatsink so I replaced it with a panaflo ?? that was laying around, pretty quiet now.

I just recieved 2 panaflo 80mm L1a'a from teamawe.com and I have installed them replacing a more powerful exhaust fan but noisier.

Asus probe with just exhaust fan:
cpu: 46 idle 49 max
mobo: 32 idle 34 max

with replaced panaflo for exhaust
cpu: 49 idle 53 max
mobo: 32 idle 35 max

with replaced panaflo for exhuast and extra for input
cpu: 49 idle 53 max
mobo: 30 idle 32 max

As you can see the panaflo fans are quiet but leave alot of heat inside the case. I don't have any crashes at all so I am ok with that because noise is my biggest concern. It's still within spec so I'm not really worried about anything, plus I have a 3 year warranty if anything does go wrong.

Note that I also have a slot fan.
 
I'm a little shocked that the Panaflo's didn't reduce the ambient air temperature inside the case more. Nevertheless, I would think that this is still a better setup than not adding any additional cooling.

Now this may be super evident once I get everything, but I shall pose the question anyway. I'm presently working under the assumption that the fans (since I purchased 4-pin) will be connected into the same power as the IDE drives. Is this correct?
 
Yes you are correct. I currently have the stock fan and heatsink on the 1.1ghz and it's pretty damn loud. The whirling sound Mule described is bothering me. I used to have four case fans going, but just disconnected the front two intakes, now I just have two exhaust fans and the cpu fan. Cpu fan is the loudest thing in here. I'm gonna look into other cpu fans... I suggest you do the same if you want a quieter computer.
 
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