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Cheers mate, hoping for next week but shall wait and see, what happens bill wise.

Expensive time of year this :dozey:

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so was I till I found the D805 overclocked and performed hard on the tails of the FX60 for 70 quid.The C2Ds just blitz everything AMD has in its arsenal. I dont like Intel chipsets on motherboards however and will be sourcing something better in the new year

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Right I am getting it ordered on Wednesday coming ( week today basically ) now I know it comes with a heatsink/fan but do I use the paste pad which comes with it, or should I get some artic silver compound.

Is the stock pad/paste good enough? I've a decent case with good ventilation and numerous case fans ( coolermaster wavemaster silver case )

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order an artic cooling freezer 64 for it an use what comes on that :)

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The past or some other cooler unit :confused:

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Zing has a point, if you got oem rather than retail and stuck this on it :D

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Nah this ones retail :D I run a AMD 3000 right now and since you nicely helped me move over to my new mobo, I have noticed temps have dropped alot since you removed the stock compound and used artic silver.

Hence I am toying with also ordering some more artic silver...

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but the cooler is made by Artic and it runs quieter and more efficiently than stock but again its your choice

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Thanks something to consider...most of the moolah is going into this CPU, should my temps keep running high I'll be considering it.

What is high for a X2 cpu?

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dunno to be honest ive never had one run hotter than 45

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Well this one in my old case hummed in at about 55c...

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but its nto an x2 yet

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No and this case is bigger and has a better mobo and internal cooling layout...

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If you are running at stock speeds then I'd suggest the AMD supplied retail fan and compound are adequate. It will be less noisy though if you upgrade to the Artic cooler as they are more efficient. It's not about the case and motherboard design so much as the effort required to get the heat away from the source point, i.e. the CPU.

Even with a good CPU cooler, you then also need a good case design so air will flow away from the CPU cooler fan, and be vented outside the case.

If you are likely to clock the CPU, then I'd definitely be looking at an upgraded cooler. Oddly enough some review suggest the compound supplied with the Arctic coolers can work better than the silver stuff.