so what  cooler are you usein as i cant get mine  below 45
mind u its a cheap coolermaster i have
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Loomis" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] heatsinks for AMD Athlon 1.4


> Hi all that are interested in this.
> I was thinking about building an Athlon system for myself, but after
looking
> at what Tom's had to show about them vs. Intel and heat, I may rethink my
> plans. I'd suggest you look at
> http://www4.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q3/010917/index.html Watch the little
> video. Yikes!
> Brad Loomis
> Los Angeles, CA
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Basicaly, yes. but, beware that the clip of heatsink is important beside
of
> its cooling performance. many people say they don't need to change
> CPU/heatsink often, but I can tell you that even you don't do those things
> often, you should still get a heatsink with easy to install/remove clip.
eg.
> I changed my heatsink few times since I first built my PC, and recently
> upgraded to a Duron 1G, everytime I spent most of time just to remove
> heatsink (without damage the cpu socket/mobo), some heatsink could require
> you put half your body weight on it to install, remove them is just almost
> impossible (without damage something).
>
> If you don't mind, I recommend a heatsink with 7000rpm+ fan unit, it will
be
> little noisy, but give you better cooling.
> *I personal prefer 8000rpm, it sounds like a small jet, but really keeping
> cpu cool.
>
> Jun Qian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>
> Hi all,
>  Are there any heatsinks available that can be screwed to
> an ASUS A7V133 motherboard?
>
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