suggestion about cooling a fx-60

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ok,.. after i asked about the oppinion's.. i ended up buying a fx-60... now, i have a Arctic Cooling: Freezer64 ( it says cool's till 5000+ ).
however.. i dont think its enough.
what air cooler can you people suggest me? ( i dont relly feel like building in water cooling atm. ;) )
 
actually i'd still suggest the freezer 64. its one of the best overclocking heatsinks out there... maybe you just didn't apply it right...
what temps are you getting (idle and full load), and how far did you overclock it?
i think what would be better, rather than a new heatsink, is a nice fine shiny finish on that heatsinks cpu surface... just lap the bottom of the heatsink with some low grit and work your way up to mirrored finish sandpaper.... it really helps a lot.
the best heatsink on the market in my opinion is the thermaltake big typhoon, though it can take up a lot of room in the case... and it can be tough to apply.

if you're serious about it, i suggest that you don't bother with a new heatsink, and lap the bottom of your current one down to a mirrored finish... then you can buy some coolabs liquid pro thermal liquid. its like 10 times better than arctic silver 5, but if you don't know a whole lot about it then arctic silver 5 is much safer and still a really good compound to use. coolabs liquid pro is dangerous because it can have a nasty reaction with aluminum... so you'd have to be extremely careful with it.

http://www.overclock.net/faqs/15897-info-want-lap-your-p4s-a64s.html

very good guide, with pictures ^
note, the smoother the surface, the less thermal compound you will need! put too much thermal compound on, and you may as well have not gone through the trouble of lapping it at all! good luck!

what i did was i went to autozone and they had 320-2000 grit types of sandpaper, took a piece of glass out of a picture frame, and used a paper towel (folded a few times) to cushion the cpu pins and about a half hour later i could see my face in the cpu integrated heatsink (ihs) and in the bottom of the heatsink. i lost probably 5-10C with this mod... its worth it... also note that if you lap the cpu heatsink, it voids any warranty on it... so careful with that FX-60 of yours!
 
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fade2green514 said:
you can buy some coolabs liquid pro thermal liquid. its like 10 times better than arctic silver 5, but if you don't know a whole lot about it then arctic silver 5 is much safer and still a really good compound to use. coolabs liquid pro is dangerous because it can have a nasty reaction with aluminum... so you'd have to be extremely careful with it.http://
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Before buying any thermal paste like coollabs why not read about the comparison testing done on some others along with AS5 and coollabs Pro. http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews....battle_of_the_goop_-_thermal_paste_comparison
 
ahh, so you see coollabs liquid pro was 3-6C cooler. proof.
again, make sure you know what your doing before you use that compound, if you even do use it.
in fact, make sure you know what you're doing when you use arctic silver 5... though the dangers are much less when using arctic silver 5...

then again, none of this will actually help your processor perform better. you'll need to overclock it in order to do that...
 
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The Zalman model at the link above has far more copper which transfers heat faster then a number of other coolers. When using AS5 on it the ide temps here are about 33C.
 
The important thing to look at is the make and model cpus that any cooler is meant for. The Zalman model I posted earlier will go on both Intel and AMD boards without problems. The socket tyoes for the Zalman are AMD 754, 939, 940 Intel 478, 775.
 
[-0MEGA-];417991 said:
It is my opinion, but why spend $800 for a CPU when you can spend $300 on one that is many time better then it?
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I don't spend $800 on any cpu. You wait a little bit and then max your board out when the prices drop. Just a few years ago $180 was average for the top model AMD cpu. A little over a month ago the Opteron 185 was at $1,100. When the quad core comes out that will drop below $200.
 
[-0MEGA-];417421 said:
Wow... waste of money

Sorry, I just had to say that.
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you'd be suprised.. I'm buying the fx-60 for $350, just $20 more as the 4800+ X2 would cost me. ( bankrupt sale of the local store here)

edit: i wouldnt pay $800 for a processor, thats a bit too much imo,. but then, i didnt feel like buying a new mobo, and the fx-60 ( for that price) seemed quite attractive.

in total,.. this pc in my sig would have costed me about $1100, and i think that money is well spend then ;)
 
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actually i'd still suggest the freezer 64. its one of the best overclocking heatsinks out there... maybe you just didn't apply it right...
what temps are you getting (idle and full load), and how far did you overclock it?
i think what would be better, rather than a new heatsink, is a nice fine shiny finish on that heatsinks cpu surface... just lap the bottom of the heatsink with some low grit and work your way up to mirrored finish sandpaper.... it really helps a lot.
the best heatsink on the market in my opinion is the thermaltake big typhoon, though it can take up a lot of room in the case... and it can be tough to apply.

if you're serious about it, i suggest that you don't bother with a new heatsink, and lap the bottom of your current one down to a mirrored finish... then you can buy some coolabs liquid pro thermal liquid. its like 10 times better than arctic silver 5, but if you don't know a whole lot about it then arctic silver 5 is much safer and still a really good compound to use. coolabs liquid pro is dangerous because it can have a nasty reaction with aluminum... so you'd have to be extremely careful with it.

http://www.overclock.net/faqs/15897-info-want-lap-your-p4s-a64s.html

very good guide, with pictures ^
note, the smoother the surface, the less thermal compound you will need! put too much thermal compound on, and you may as well have not gone through the trouble of lapping it at all! good luck!

what i did was i went to autozone and they had 320-2000 grit types of sandpaper, took a piece of glass out of a picture frame, and used a paper towel (folded a few times) to cushion the cpu pins and about a half hour later i could see my face in the cpu integrated heatsink (ihs) and in the bottom of the heatsink. i lost probably 5-10C with this mod... its worth it... also note that if you lap the cpu heatsink, it voids any warranty on it... so careful with that FX-60 of yours!
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you know... I think ill polish up the topside of the CPU.. that should healp, thx for the tip :)
 
you know... I think ill polish up the topside of the CPU.. that should healp, thx for the tip
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I wouldn't risk it... if your gonna go as far as doing that you might as well pop the whole IHS off. It's usually the heatsink you should consider lapping.

The main point of lapping isn't to polish the metal, but to make it perfectly flat. Actually, you don't want to use polish, because even after fine sanding, polish fills the tiny holes in the metal, were TIM would otherwise go.
 
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