Alrighty, New CPU time

[tsu]

Alrighty, I've never -ever- slapped a new fan/thermal paste on any of my chips before. I AM getting either a 1.2GHz or 1.33GHz thunderbird, however.

My questions:
IS it neccessary to replace the stock AMD fan on these chips? aka, is it 'sufficient' for a non-overclock'd box?
and more importantly, IS it recommended for someone who has zero knowledge about these things to assemble an OEM with new fan+paste

Should be interesting either way

I'm thinking about building an OC box for this poor, poor old 366c I might have some fun with that, sicne you know, its NOT expensive or worth it anymore.

-tsu

 

[Shimmishim]

i'd say go for it. i would replace the fan. just get a taisol cgk760092 or something like that. it has a copper insert and is very very quiet.

 

[00aStrOgUy00]

Taisol is a rip off for the price. Get Millenium Glaciator or Swiftech MC370 for the same price, cools better too!

 

[Davegod75]

umm no. taisol are not expensive. can be add for about $21-35

 

[richleader]

Some of us like quiet too.

 

[tsu]

You guys are skirting the issue

Is the stock fan sufficient until I would be comfortable that I would not totally fry my very shiny, brand new, good-as-gold (speedy) athlon. (hey, a turtle is speedy compared to my machine right now!)

 

[hardmankam]

tsu: if you buy retail AND if you are not planning to overclock, then the original hsf should be enough. otherwise, amd would not ship them with the cpu.

 

[tsu]

good point