Will cheap "stock" Cooling Fan work with Athlon 1.33?

[VBboy]

I know there are so many good heat sinks/cooling fans out there, some costing more than $50. But will the cheap "stock" cooling fan work just as well? Assuming you don't overclock, can you buy the cheap AMD-recommended $10 heat sink/cooling fan?

Is it like with older P3 where you could buy a 4-fan beast or a regular 1-fan one, and it would work equally well?

*** If anyone is using a regular (~ $10 or so) heat sink/cooling fan (or a cheap ORB), HOW WELL DOES IT WORK? ***

 

[Duvie]

I asked this very same question to a vendor on friday (www.tcwo.com). They have 1.4ghz chip and then let you buy 9.00 fan and give you a 1yr warranty on the oem chip....I asked sinced my tbird 1.1@1.2 runs 38c idle and 45c, but partly thanks to some good case cooling...If I turn off my case fans except the front intake and ps fan those temps go to like 41-42c idle, but if I load it I fear the system and case temps will go up more dramatically then now and thus the cpu temps will raise more sharply then the 7c range I see now. I was concerned if I built a system for someone and I didn't want to install all the case fans (noise reasons) would I get a good cool system. I didn't want to see the idles up near 50c...on non-asus mobo systems that is...


They said in their investigation it works just fine and they obviously stand behind it to give 1 year warranties while most give only 30 day warranties regardless...

The fan is rated up to like 1.5 ghz by the company and is a good size heatsink with a 55-60mm fan running in my system at 5700rpms...not sure on the cfm exactly.

I think it should be fine as long as you have decent case cooling and don't plan on ocing really any (ie voltage hikes).

 

[Adul]

jonnyguru works there and the fan they provide is enough to handle the athlon. 50c is fine at stock, but it doesn't hurt to try and get cooler.

 

[MichaelD]

I'm with Duvie on this one. The stock HSF will cool adequately provided that there's a constant flow of fresh air thru the case. I.E. good case ventilation. I wouldn't put this CPU in a case unless it had at least two cooling fans; one intake and one exhaust.

 

[jonnyGURU]

Yep... Adequate case cooling is often overlooked. I use the fan to run a 1 GHz @ 1.4 BUT I can't do so with my side panel installed.

 

[Bozz]

To quote MichaelD:
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I'm with Duvie on this one. The stock HSF will cool adequately provided that there's a constant flow of fresh air thru the case. I.E. good case ventilation. I wouldn't put this CPU in a case unless it had at least two cooling fans; one intake and one exhaust
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That is the wrong approach I see taken often, you are basically making one fan push air into the case that the other fan is already pushing out, it is the same as getting to fans blowing the exact same direction and putting them together to blow as one unit. All fans in a case should blow either IN or OUT... The big OEMs are making some wonderful strides with cooling for some of the rack-mounted and freestanding servers, they have many fans next to one-another blowing in the same direction, but if one fan fails then all the fan next to it will do is circulate the air through the fan next to it that has stopped turning, they have designed ingeniously simple and clever lightweight flaps that open when air is flowing in one direction and close if air stops flowing or tries flowing in reverse....

Basically, if your supply blows air IN then all other fans should blow in as well to maximise the airflow (make sure there are places for air to exit, if there aren't then pull out some slot covers at the back of the computer to make room for flow...

 

[jonnyGURU]

I believe all power supplies suck air out of the case, so to agree with AMD who says "if you only have one fan on the case, make it blow out to exhaust the accumulating hot air out of the case". As you said, there should be plenty of holes in the case to allow the fresh air in. I'm sure that's what you mean, right?