AMD Athlon II X2

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Just wondering, it says the 3 year warranty is void if I use any other heatsink than the one provided. Does this apply to Intel. I was also thinking does this only apply to non-Black edition AMD processors?
 
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I wouldn't worry about that, how would they even know what heatsink you had used? ...in the extremely unlikely even that you would ever need a cpu warranty, I doubt they would even ask. And if they did, tell them you were indeed using the provided one.
 
I wouldn't worry about that, how would they even know what heatsink you had used? ...in the extremely unlikely even that you would ever need a cpu warranty, I doubt they would even ask. And if they did, tell them you were indeed using the provided one.

Would they care if I used other thermal compound. Would they ask me to leave the thermal compound on as proof that I used there heatsink
 
Well if you had to make a warranty claim, they 'might' but it's unlikely. I have had a lot of cpu's over the years, and the only one to ever actually stop working on me, was entirely my own fault, back in the old AMD socket A days, I cracked the core on a Duron when reseating the HSF unit as AMD thought it was a brilliant idea to not bother with heat-spreaders, which also protect the cpu then.

I really wouldn't worry about it, besides the one in your signature is really cheap, people will buy those in multiples just to see how much speed they can ring out of it, while I'm not suggesting you do that, I'm simply saying, as far as cpu's go, the Athlon X2 240 is virtually semi-disposable. They very rarely go wrong anyway, it's almost never the cpu that gives up the ghost, unless you are pumping a lot of voltage beyond the recommended into it over a period of time. If you are running it at stock voltage or close to, it'll go on working well beyond it's useful life.

As I say, not worth worrying about really.
 
Well if you had to make a warranty claim, they 'might' but it's unlikely. I have had a lot of cpu's over the years, and the only one to ever actually stop working on me, was entirely my own fault, back in the old AMD socket A days, I cracked the core on a Duron when reseating the HSF unit as AMD thought it was a brilliant idea to not bother with heat-spreaders, which also protect the cpu then.

I really wouldn't worry about it, besides the one in your signature is really cheap, people will buy those in multiples just to see how much speed they can ring out of it, while I'm not suggesting you do that, I'm simply saying, as far as cpu's go, the Athlon X2 240 is virtually semi-disposable. They very rarely go wrong anyway, it's almost never the cpu that gives up the ghost, unless you are pumping a lot of voltage beyond the recommended into it over a period of time. If you are running it at stock voltage or close to, it'll go on working well beyond it's useful life.

As I say, not worth worrying about really.

Well, could you recommend a heatsink for it. I was looking at the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro. My mate said he'll lend me Arctic Silver 5. What voltage would I not want to go over.
 
Well a decent and reasonbly priced one for that would be the Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro ...cheaper still but still vasty superior to the AMD stock cooler is the Arctic Cooling Alpine 64

The Alpine is a bit weak as far as aftermarket coolers go, but it's less than £10 and I don't imagine you want to be spending near the purchase price of your cpu on a highend cooler, I wouldn't recommend it anyway, it's not really worth it.

I think the 1st one I linked will probably yield you the best alround price-performance ratio

As for voltage, well I'm not sure quite what the general limitations of the new Athlons are, but I would say don't go beyond 10% over stock voltage, I expect you will see something like 3.6-3.8ghz out of it, from what I have seen of others.
 
Well don't hold me to that overclock, you 'might' not get that, but from what I have read, the evidence thus far, suggests that you should get about that. Those new Athlon II's have a lot of untapped potential.
 
Well don't hold me to that overclock, you 'might' not get that, but from what I have read, the evidence thus far, suggests that you should get about that. Those new Athlon II's have a lot of untapped potential.

Don't worry, I won't but it would be nice to get that.
 
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