Upgrade / new cooler for my HTPC - about to buy a new CPU

[Snow-Munki]

Finally about to upgrade my CPU from a Athlon X2 4000 to Phenom II 945.

Athlon is 65 watt, whereas the Phenom is 96 watt. Currently have the Zalman CNPS7500-CU which is ok, but guess I'd better upgrade the HSF.

Any suggestions, rather not spend too much, oh and it's for my HTPC so can't be too big.

Thanks,

 

[snedie]

You don't really need to concentrate to much on the wattage of the cpu if your not going to over-clock or play games etc. The CPU in a HTPC will probably never go over 30% usage, and would be more than fine on stock cooling.

I used to run a q6600 under that Zalman at 3.6Ghz and it never went over 65c at 100%. Spend the money towards a new sound card.