AMD 64 Cooling

[Bushmeister]

Hi All,
I am looking at buying an AMD athlon 64 3500,
Just wondering what sort of heatsink/cooling you guys are using, Whats the
best for this type of processor ?
It will be linked with
Asus A8N-E mobo
Geforce 6800 GT PCI-e graphics
120g maxtor H/D
2 x 512 mb elixir ram
Pioneer dvd/cd writer

Thanx in anticipation
Bush

 

[Derek Baker]

Hi All,
I am looking at buying an AMD athlon 64 3500,
Just wondering what sort of heatsink/cooling you guys are using, Whats the
best for this type of processor ?
It will be linked with
Asus A8N-E mobo
Geforce 6800 GT PCI-e graphics
120g maxtor H/D
2 x 512 mb elixir ram
Pioneer dvd/cd writer

Thanx in anticipation
Bush

I'm using an XP-120 on my 3400+. Works great with a Nexus 120mm fan turning
at only 774rpm as I type.

 

[Tim Burgess]

using stock cooler on my 3200+ with cool'n'quiet enabled - they run very
cool, i.e sub 40c under load - i do have good case cooling though

 

[Ed Light]

Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 without the fan, with an aluminum tape duct to the
case fan (80mm 2300 rpm). Idling at 26C throttled down, waiting to pounce.


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[OldFartJC]

3700+ San Diego core @ 2.6GHz with stock retail cooling and no problems.

 

[f/fgeorge]

Hi All,
I am looking at buying an AMD athlon 64 3500,
Just wondering what sort of heatsink/cooling you guys are using, Whats the
best for this type of processor ?
It will be linked with
Asus A8N-E mobo
Geforce 6800 GT PCI-e graphics
120g maxtor H/D
2 x 512 mb elixir ram
Pioneer dvd/cd writer

Thanx in anticipation
Bush

I use stock cooling but also have a fan in the rear.
I have the side off but will put it back on soon, I was making some
changes to drives etc.
I have 3 hard drives and 1 dvd burner and 1 floppy drive. I also have
1 gig of ram, 2 512 meg chips. The cpu runs flat out 100%, 100% of the
time!!! I run Seti and that uses ALL of the cpu cycles that other
programs do not.
The motherboard is at 45C and the cpu is at 64C right now, according
to Everest.

 

[f/fgeorge]

I use stock cooling but also have a fan in the rear.
I have the side off but will put it back on soon, I was making some
changes to drives etc.
I have 3 hard drives and 1 dvd burner and 1 floppy drive. I also have
1 gig of ram, 2 512 meg chips. The cpu runs flat out 100%, 100% of the
time!!! I run Seti and that uses ALL of the cpu cycles that other
programs do not.
The motherboard is at 45C and the cpu is at 64C right now, according
to Everest.

I forgot to say I have an AMD 64 3200+ on a Soyo board.

 

[Peter van der Goes]

Hi All,
I am looking at buying an AMD athlon 64 3500,
Just wondering what sort of heatsink/cooling you guys are using, Whats the
best for this type of processor ?
It will be linked with
Asus A8N-E mobo
Geforce 6800 GT PCI-e graphics
120g maxtor H/D
2 x 512 mb elixir ram
Pioneer dvd/cd writer

Thanx in anticipation
Bush

I'm sure you get the drift of the responses so far...
The AMD 64 90nm core CPU's don't run hot and don't require any special (read
expensive) cooling effort. The retail HSF's do fine, although you may want
to reduce the noise by getting a 70mm - 80mm or 70mm - 92mm adapter and
replacing the retail fan with a slow and quiet 80mm or 92mm. Personally, I
don't find the noise from the retail fan offensive, but I got a 70mm = 80mm
adapter and stuck a Vantec Stealth on just to see. Now, my case fans drown
out the CPU fan .
Running 3200+ Winchester at 2.5 GHZ. Room = 24C, Case = 26C, CPU = 35 - 40C.

 

[John Weiss]

I am looking at buying an AMD athlon 64 3500,
Just wondering what sort of heatsink/cooling you guys are using, Whats the
best for this type of processor ?

AMD retail box.

 

[Ed]

Hi All,
I am looking at buying an AMD athlon 64 3500,
Just wondering what sort of heatsink/cooling you guys are using, Whats the
best for this type of processor ?
It will be linked with
Asus A8N-E mobo
Geforce 6800 GT PCI-e graphics
120g maxtor H/D
2 x 512 mb elixir ram
Pioneer dvd/cd writer

Thanx in anticipation
Bush

AMD's A64 chips are nothing like Bartons and T-breds, CPU heat is really
not that big of a deal, ( I think of how much BS I went threw with case
fans and HSs on my K7's, and the noise, what a joke that was, and still
ran pretty hot!) If your PC room is fairly cool you'll be amazed at how
cool A64's run, especially the newer ones.

http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041115/pentium4_570-20.html
http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/p4_840/18.shtml
http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2389
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/athlon64-venice_5.html

have fun,
Ed

 

[mark]

im using an akasa evo 33 (ak-913) cant say much about temps, i rarely look!

 

[Wes Newell]

im using an akasa evo 33 (ak-913) cant say much about temps, i rarely look!

Since the AMD cooler fell off because it only has a one tab clip which
broke, I'm using a TR2-M6.

CPU Temp: +32°C
M/B Temp: +29°C

 

[Dave]

Hi All,
I am looking at buying an AMD athlon 64 3500,
Just wondering what sort of heatsink/cooling you guys are using, Whats the
best for this type of processor ?
It will be linked with
Asus A8N-E mobo
Geforce 6800 GT PCI-e graphics
120g maxtor H/D
2 x 512 mb elixir ram
Pioneer dvd/cd writer

The standard one will be quite OK if the CPU is a 90nm one. I clocked a
friend's 3200-939 and for the most part, the CPU runs 3C above the board's
temp with CnQ. The board is a GA-K8NXP-9 and is set for 246MHz, 10x
multiplier (standard), 4x HTL and 1.55V (1.4V standard) with memory at
166MHz setting (about 208MHz real). The CPU temp, according to whatever
winbond chip gets to about 44C in a room temp of 25C when stress testing
(prime95) and converting an AVI to DVD at the same time. Running F6 BIOS,
one DDR500 and one cheap DDR400 (hence the 166MHz memory setting).

The standard CPU cooler should be fine unless you will be running the CPU at
100% 24/7.

Dave