AMD Phenom 9950 Alternative Cooler

RobCharles · 4 Feb 2009 at 14:52

Hi All, I've recently invested in the AMD Phenom 9950, and I think its a fair decent upgrade to what my Crosshair can take.

I brought the Arctic Freezer 64 Pro, but its not doing the Job properly temp issues, want to try and overclock it a little:

So I want to invest in a much better cooler I've been looking at the:

Zalman CNPS9500-AM2 CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-021-ZA&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=821

And

Zalman CNPS9700-NT nVidia Tritium CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-027-ZA&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=821

I'm just want to know what are differences between the two??

Thanks

RobCharles · 5 Feb 2009 at 00:13

Can anyone offer me any thoughts?

I ordered (elsewhere) the first cooler?

RobCharles · 5 Feb 2009 at 11:50

Anyone?

FirebarUK · 5 Feb 2009 at 12:18

Personally I just wouldn't bother

(my opinion).

The 9950 pumps out crazy amounts of heat, way too much. Save your pennies and spend it on a Deneb (although presumably your Crosshair doesn't support them?).

RobCharles · 5 Feb 2009 at 12:25

Would I be able to overclock this cpu ???

FirebarUK · 5 Feb 2009 at 14:45

You could overclock the 9950 but watch out for those temperatures

I use a Zalman 9700 to cool it and it's still a stupidly hot chip and I'm reluctant to take it past 2.7Ghz due to the temperatures (65C load approx). More heat = more noise, boooo.

RobCharles · 5 Feb 2009 at 15:49

Temps Now

Mobo - 37
CPU 37

:rolleyes:

AtaRo · 5 Feb 2009 at 15:59

I use the Thermaltake Big Water 745 to cool my 9950 and its clock to 3.2Ghz stable @ around 55°C fully loaded on all cores.

RobCharles · 5 Feb 2009 at 16:27

Eearlier I tired this

15 Multiplier and CPU Voltage 1.375

I didn't check the Bios Temps and Everest was suggesting 60oc!! :eek:

FirebarUK · 5 Feb 2009 at 16:43

Mobo - 37
CPU 37

Rubbish, those will be wrong

I didn't check the Bios Temps and Everest was suggesting 60oc!!

That sounds right.

Rely on something which picks up the temps from the chip directly. Stoopid Asus motherboard's

Mine did the same.

gareth170 · 5 Feb 2009 at 17:19

vcore 2.26v??? :eek:

FirebarUK · 5 Feb 2009 at 17:22

Sounds like the issue I experienced with my Asus board setting the Vcore too high by default

I had to manually set it.

gareth170 · 5 Feb 2009 at 17:23

FirebarUK said:
Rubbish, those will be wrong

That sounds right.

Rely on something which picks up the temps from the chip directly. Stoopid Asus motherboard's Mine did the same.

37c maybe not wrong . my old 9850 idled at 33-35c and underload 40-45c

AtaRo · 5 Feb 2009 at 17:51

use coretemp to check your proc temperature http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/

RobCharles · 5 Feb 2009 at 21:47

Core Temp Downloaded and Rund what do you think?

gareth170 · 5 Feb 2009 at 21:58

i got the same temp as u with my old 9850 which is basicly the same as the 9950..

its the underload temp which is more important.

but tbh i would save up or sell your 9950 to get a phenom 2 they are very cool running, see below.

....

RobCharles · 5 Feb 2009 at 22:34

So my Underload temp is 32?

Yeah I heard about these AMD Phenom 2 but at the moment my Crosshair won't take it not from from what I read on the Asus Forums, unless Asus release a new Bios.

Time will tell.

gareth170 · 5 Feb 2009 at 22:38

RobCharles said:
So my Underload temp is 32?.

no. u should run prime95 or something like that to max out the cpu then u'll see your temps go up while underload

RobCharles · 5 Feb 2009 at 22:42

Prime Easy To use ??

gareth170 · 5 Feb 2009 at 22:44

yes. only 3 options