I’ve seen here at the forum lot’s of people are using an AMD 64 CPU. Can someone recommend me a good cooling unit for the AMD 64 3700+ San Diego CPU? I’ll gonna buy the following mainboard (click), which has some transistors near the cpu socket, so that i suppose, that the big ones do not fit on it. I’ve also read in the comments on the site, that the Arctic-Cooling Freezer 64 Pro did not fit. So, which one should i buy? Please no watercooling solutions.
Thanks, Alex
I always rate Zalman Coolers. You can get them from Quiet PC which seem have to offices across the world. I’ve only ever checked the UK site, but sure they would do them at other stores. If not most online retailers seem to stock at least a certain amount of the range.
i have arctic cooling freezer 64 and its doing its job very well. my cpu is athlon 64 3500+ and its overclocked by 10%. no trouble here…
I also considered buying a Zalman CNPS 7700-Cu, but they are quite big and need to be screwed with the mainboard, i would prefer a smaller one with a normal brace for the retention module.
You mean the one without the PRO? OK, i’ll search for some reviews. Thanks.
yes, non pro version. there were no pro version when i built my pc…
Are you sure you need a better cpu cooler, I have read that the one included should be quite good even for overclocking.
And why a nf3 and not nf4 motherboard? I know Dfi are good but just want to hear your reason for it.
I’ve ordered the cooler. Was a bit difficult to find at the big computer retailers, but i’ve found an offer at ebay. This one should be enough, as i don’t overclock my CPU. Seems, that a lot of people are satisfied with it and cooling their CPUs effectivly.
Thanks, Alex
The reason, that i buy a NF3 board is, that i have a good AGP graphics card (6800 GT), which i won’t change that fast, because i’m no hardcore gamer. I’m upgrading from a Socket-A system and this will be my first 64bit CPU.
I’ve read, that the boxed coolers are quite loud and the Arctic Cooler had better temperatures, so i’ve decided to buy a new one.
Aren’t there still issues with nf4 and a lot of audio programs?
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I haven’t had any problems at all, but I’m not using onboard sound either.
OK cool, thought I had read about people experiencing various problems with that chipset, but as I’m not thinking of upgrading for a while didn’t really pay that close attention to the specifics…
I’ve read, that some of the new Creative X-Fi cards have problems with NF4, this could only be fixed with a new bios for the soundcard, or if you send your card to Creative.
I have also an AMD Athlon 64 3700+ and i´m using with a Arctic cooling Freezer Pro. Excelent results, but the most interesting part with the AMD is Cool&Quiet.
Yust simply install the amd driver for windows and you can activate Cool&Quiet in the energy options at control panel. Now Speed drops down at 900 mhz when idle. Processor cool and cooler silent.
I always hated the coolers´ noise
Unfortunatly the pro version of this cooler doesn’t fit on my DFI board, so i’ve choosen the normal version. The RAM banks and retention module are rotated 90°, so the pro version would collide with the graphics card. The normal version should fit fine and blowing the warm air directly to my 120mm case fan below my power supply unit. And yes, Cool & Quiet is definitvly a really nice thing to have. The weak point of the DFI board seems to be the small mainboard cooler, but this one is easily changeable, so should be no problem. I’ve found a really nice forum yesterday with lot’s of nice infos for DFI boards, if someone is interested.
Though your mileage may vary, for the few months I had one of those sound cards and never had any problems.
I just upgraded to an emu 0404 though.
I’m using an a64 3000+ with and epox 9npaj mobo.
I’ve only read that info some time ago. I also own this card and had no problems. They’ve also written, that this concerns only a few mainboards and mainly the first series of the X-Fi card.