Cooling Fan for Athlon64

Hi,

I will be ordering my Athlon64 before this month end. I have seen the
Athlon 64 Retail as well as the barebone packages available on various
sites.

Is it better to buy the Retail package which comes with the Fan and
Heatsink or will I be better of buying just the barebone and
purchasing the Fan and HeatSink separately ?

I am going for the Athlon64 3200+. Planning to buy from either
NewEgg.com or ZipZoomfly.com[$280 for Retail]. If anyone knows of a
better price and reliable place please let me know ASAP :-)

Thanks,
Vikram

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 20:59:03 -0700, Vikram wrote:

Hi,

I will be ordering my Athlon64 before this month end. I have seen the
Athlon 64 Retail as well as the barebone packages available on various
sites.

Is it better to buy the Retail package which comes with the Fan and
Heatsink or will I be better of buying just the barebone and
purchasing the Fan and HeatSink separately ?

The retail cooler is actually pretty good. I bought retail strickly for
the warranty. This is the first retail I've ever bought. And while the
retail cooler did a good job, I didn't like the 70x15mm fan and replaced
it with a TMD fan. Didn't really make that much of a difference though,
maybe 1C. The TR2-M6, while a lot quieter was about 1C higher with it's
stock 80mm fan. Either will work fine though.

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Hi,

I will be ordering my Athlon64 before this month end. I have seen the
Athlon 64 Retail as well as the barebone packages available on various
sites.

Is it better to buy the Retail package which comes with the Fan and
Heatsink or will I be better of buying just the barebone and
purchasing the Fan and HeatSink separately ?

I am going for the Athlon64 3200+. Planning to buy from either
NewEgg.com or ZipZoomfly.com[$280 for Retail]. If anyone knows of a
better price and reliable place please let me know ASAP :-)

Thanks,
Vikram


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It might be better to buy the retail version,it will have a much longer
warrenty than the OEM version. Unless you overclock it a lot,the retail fan
works well. DOUG

On 24 Apr 2004 20:59:03 -0700, (Vikram) wrote:

Hi,

I will be ordering my Athlon64 before this month end. I have seen the
Athlon 64 Retail as well as the barebone packages available on various
sites.

Is it better to buy the Retail package which comes with the Fan and
Heatsink or will I be better of buying just the barebone and
purchasing the Fan and HeatSink separately ?

I am going for the Athlon64 3200+. Planning to buy from either
NewEgg.com or ZipZoomfly.com[$280 for Retail]. If anyone knows of a
better price and reliable place please let me know ASAP :-)

Thanks,
Vikram


I agree with Wes.. the retail heatsink/fan actually works very well.

My 3200 cpu temperature never goes over 37/38c when gaming and its usually
around the 32/34c for normal use. The 64bit cpu's appear to run quite cool
with very good OC potential too with the right board. I have mine overclocked
slightly and I am even able to reduce the vcore voltage down to 1.4v from its
default of 1.5v.

The retail heatsink is secured by an easy fit locking arm, you just hook the
spring under the base plate tabs and pressure is applied to the cpu (via a
offset cam action) when you move the locking arm into the locked position.
Its a simple idea but very effective! makes fitting the heatsink very easy..

Regards

John

Good cpu IMO. :-))