Upgrading a stock Amd64 Fan

[TheOverLord]

Hi all,

Ive got an 4000+ Clawhammer (0.13(mu letter thing), 1.5v stock), running at 57c tops with orthos, using the stock cooling. (Measured with CoreTemp)

Couple a' questions:

Is this the normal load temps of this chip? Cause i "may" have bodged installing the stock paste...?

Would i see a large temp decrease (if so, how large?) by switching to a better fan, and better paste (arctic silver 5)? (Case is a Wavemaster, so restricted height to about 14.4cm)

Thing is, im having a major overhaul in the late summer or so, when the new ATI cards have had a chance to shine and hopefully some concrete info about the new AMD chips is out, and its "probably" gonna be my first watercooled system (plan to heavy oc) so that means the fan i get now will be a temp job, this leads to my final question:

Is the cheap "Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro THAT much worse than the £30+ coolers? Dont wanna save £20 and realize that its no better than the stock AMD coolers :S (gonna be using the AS5 tho)

Cheers

 

[Mul]

Quite typical for a Clawhammer 4000+, especially in a wavemaster case. Something like a Freezer 64 Pro would give a nice improvement with temperatures. Whether it'll make much difference to you is another question.

 

[Jamous]

Arctic Freezer 64 is a great cooler.

 

[Sel]

Yes Arctic Freezer 64 Pro here and nice temps.

 

[fester]

Buy a opteron 165 £99 and it has a nice heat pipe cooler for free u should get about £40+ for your 4000 on fleabay.

 

[TheOverLord]

incredibly tempted by the opteron, but the only place i found that has it in stock at a reasonable price cant deliver to anything but the billing address, and im at uni so cant do that. LOTS of places are saying their getting more in 10-20 days, is this just a scam or is there gonna be a fresh batch? if not, are overclockers gonna get some? if so @ what price? thanks all

 

[fester]

they can be had for £99.95

 

[TheOverLord]

Unfortunately, the only site that sells at that price only delivers to billing address when you use a debit card, and i dont wanna get a credit card as a student... ill just spend all the overdraft lol

 

[fester]

there great deal, they should keep a 939 rig alive for another year and the cooler is almost good as the ac pro just a little bit noiser.Try getting a friend to buy one for u.