Am2 stock cooler any good? Keep cooling paste?

salami1212 · 7 Sep 2006 at 20:15

i will be doing some medium-heavy overclocking. And im wondering if the stock ***AM2***, not 939 stock cooler (as that was reaaally good) is any good? How loud is it and should I keep the cooling paste?
CHeers

welshtom · 7 Sep 2006 at 20:29

change the cooling paste, The stock 939 cooler wasnt that good.

salami1212 · 7 Sep 2006 at 20:34

well the x2 fan was ive heard. why do i need new cooling paste and how loud is the fan?

welshtom · 7 Sep 2006 at 20:52

well if you are doing "heavy" overclocking, I would change the paste.

I dont know what the stock cooler is like on AM2.

salami1212 · 7 Sep 2006 at 23:25

if you dont put enough cooling paste on, will the cpu overheat and will it affect the temps a lot, as i moved the heatsink around and took it off a few times and spread a lot of the paste away from the cpu area

salami1212 · 8 Sep 2006 at 21:03

salami1212 said:
if you dont put enough cooling paste on, will the cpu overheat and will it affect the temps a lot, as i moved the heatsink around and took it off a few times and spread a lot of the paste away from the cpu area

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salami1212 · 9 Sep 2006 at 12:06

come on.. someone must know the answer

welshtom · 10 Sep 2006 at 08:52

you have to put the right amount of paste on to get optimum temps.

You can put too much on and you can put too little on.

Nice thin layer you want or a blob in the middle and let the heatsink spread it

gam3r · 10 Sep 2006 at 11:31

Is the AM2 cooler that new heatpipe one?