AMD Phenom x4 heatsink/fan question

gaming_guy

after being switched off for ~30mins:

bios reported 38 degrees shortly after boot, 30secs: 42 degrees and highest was 48. MB temp was 30 degrees

coretemp & speedfan reported 39/40 degrees while idle with 0% cpu usage and 1gb ram usage (out of 4gb total) in Win7. i ran the program poppy suggested and it pushed the max temp up to 73 degrees within a few seconds of leaving the idle state (so i stopped doing the test to prevent any damage).

Ubuntu reported 48 degrees shortly after logging on, which dropped to 44 degrees idle then dropped to 40 before raising to 43/44 degrees when firefox & rhythmbox were opened. While typing this post out, it's been reporting 43/44 degrees.

Thank you to everyone that has helped in this thread so far

gaming_guy

I've now decided that i am going to replace the heatsink/fan.

I have looked around and the coolermaster hyper 212+ seems to be highly recommended however it is slightly too big to fit in my case . Another one that is recommended is the Thermaltake contac 29 and again it will be a squeeze to fit it into the case.

the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7Pro (rev2) will fit into the case but from a few reviews the temperature doesn't drop much (1/2 degrees) on a phenom ii processor.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a decent heatsink that will fit into this case?

gaming_guy

Has anyone got any suggestions for a decent heatsink/fan?

DatabaseError

kinda hard to suggest what will fit in your case, not knowing which case it is
I have an old zalman cooler on my only AMD CPU, a freezer pro on one intel, a ...er..something or other on another (scithe mine?) and a beautiful, if expensive, noctua on my own PC..but it is a little on the large side

gaming_guy

DatabaseError wrote: »

kinda hard to suggest what will fit in your case, not knowing which case it is

gaming_guy wrote: »

Does anyone have any recommendations for a decent heatsink that will fit into this case?

as above

el_gringo_3

I'd like to know whats a decent low noise heatsink/fan for a case only slightly more spacious but with probably a similar amount of room due to masses of wires!

gaming_guy

el_gringo wrote: »

I'd like to know whats a decent low noise heatsink/fan for a case only slightly more spacious but with probably a similar amount of room due to masses of wires!

I don't know if this will help:

http://www.frostytech.com/top5heatsinks.cfm

(just bear in mind that it may be hard to find the stuff mentioned there as it's a US based site)

Richie-from-the-Boro

If you need a bit of retail therapy, go for it, I've always had high end slugs and megga coolers but be aware that case airflow / cooling comes first.

A £500 cooler will not fix a bad case, but a couple of £3 fans . .. .. well placed will.