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MovedGoalPosts · 08-11-2006, 19:48

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.

08-11-2006, 19:48	#29
MovedGoalPosts Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 61 Posts: 15,868	Re: 4400 4600 or the 4800 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.