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I've done a lot of reading, and understand that this passive cooler's performance is not well regarded for the latest processors. However, I have one which is a bit older, and am planning to keep it for the foreseeable future as I don't play games or do graphical work, and it does everything I want.
Long story short, my knowledge is well out of date so I'd be grateful for opinions on whether this cooler would be adequate during a London summer for an AMD Phenom 9950 Quad-Core running at 2.61GHz? (Which is probably stock, as I don't recall doing any overclocking in the last decade...)
Additional information:
Case/cooling - Lian Li PC71, an aluminium full tower. Two 80mm ball bearing front intake fans, a 120mm Panaflow ball bearing* as top exhaust. I have provision to add an 80mm side fan directly in line with the CPU socket, and for two 80mm fans at the top rear, directly above the PSU.
Graphics - Some budget card from about four years ago, passively cooled.
Power - OCZ modular, I think it's a 550W, enough for my simple system anyway.
*This fan is amazing, I ripped it out of a scrapped 1987 Olivetti server in an office where I did work experience in 1995, and have been using it ever since. It has a metal body. I gently vacuum the blades every few months, and on my rheobus I can have it anywhere between nearly silent or exhausting like an industrial monster!
Long story short, my knowledge is well out of date so I'd be grateful for opinions on whether this cooler would be adequate during a London summer for an AMD Phenom 9950 Quad-Core running at 2.61GHz? (Which is probably stock, as I don't recall doing any overclocking in the last decade...)
Additional information:
Case/cooling - Lian Li PC71, an aluminium full tower. Two 80mm ball bearing front intake fans, a 120mm Panaflow ball bearing* as top exhaust. I have provision to add an 80mm side fan directly in line with the CPU socket, and for two 80mm fans at the top rear, directly above the PSU.
Graphics - Some budget card from about four years ago, passively cooled.
Power - OCZ modular, I think it's a 550W, enough for my simple system anyway.
*This fan is amazing, I ripped it out of a scrapped 1987 Olivetti server in an office where I did work experience in 1995, and have been using it ever since. It has a metal body. I gently vacuum the blades every few months, and on my rheobus I can have it anywhere between nearly silent or exhausting like an industrial monster!