On 23/06/2012 07:55, Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 21/06/2012 7:21 PM, Seasidepeter wrote:
Hi all - I recently upgraded my asus m2n68 motherboard with a Phenom 2
x4 955 cpu - a decent step up from the original Athlon 64x2 2.7Ghz.

Everything runs great - but the supplied cooler for the Phenom has a
really noisy fan.

Any reason I can't swap just the fan, leaving the heatsink in place?
They look about the same size...?

You'll have to remove the heatsink to remove its fan anyways. Why not just get a
full heatsink/fan combo?

Yousuf Khan
Actually, the fan on the AMD supplied unit simply clicks into place behind four
small tabs on the heatsink.

And I'm ashamed to say I don't want to replace the whole thing because I'm lazy
and don't want all that mucking about with thermal paste again.

As a ps: I swapped the fan for my quieter one, and it put ten degrees on the cpu
temperature. So I turned up one of the case fans - and all is well again with
minimal noise. Hooray...