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[janglur]

I'm wondering if anyone knows of an excellent AM2+ heatsink? My motherboard is an AM2/AM2+/AM3 socket system, and i've got a Phenom II X3 720 that runs a bit hot (102F idle, 138F maxed).

I need a huge improvement on the stock heatsink, preferably for $60 or less. Suggestions?



I have Arctic Silver 5 that I plan to use for paste.

[Ampersand]

Two words my friend: Liquid Cooling.

You can find some nice rigs at Fry's or Best Buy, but they certianly don't come cheap.

[janglur]

Nice.  That's neither $50 or less, nor even remotely a possible consideration.

Seriously, can it possibly be this hard to have someone give heatsink advice that ISN'T stock!?  It can't be true that AMD makes the best heatsinks..

[Rilder]

Two words my friend: Liquid Cooling.

You can find some nice rigs at Fry's or Best Buy, but they certianly don't come cheap.

Aquarium Cooling tbh.


(note googled pic)

[Ampersand]

JUST SO YOU DON'T COMPLETELY FARK IT UP

That isn't water, in the aquarium, it's non-conductive Glycerine.

[Cthulhu]

That looks so cool man.

I got a can of compressed air for my computer today and was spraying it.  I forgot not to tilt it...

Thankfully only my dial-up card was hit by the blast of abyssally cold liquid, and my computer survived.

[janglur]

Actually, I dun think that can hurt it.

I've used it as a test tool before.  I'd have friends cake a heatsink in dry ice from a spraycan to chill the CPU to -20C and overclock the crap out of it.

Let me tell you, videocards that have no fans REALLY overclock when they're frozen!  =D

[Rilder]

Hmm, putting a computer in a Liquid Nitrogen cooler thingy in the attempt to cause it to super conduct.