I am just about to do the upgrade on my computer, from 1800 athlon with 133fsb to 4200 dual core with 500?fsb.

When I bought the processor, I didn't realise that the cooler came with it so I bought one specially.

Shall I use the tried and tested AMD cooler or the much bigger 'Samurai' one?
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The bigger one loos like it's a liqud cooled jobbie - do you need to plumb it in?

Either way I'd use the Samurai one as it has a cool name

use the quieter of the two, the stock heatsink does a great job...

Stock heatsink will do a good job, Samurai is for the clockers really

Cheers
Alex

If it was me, I'd run the bigger one at 7volts, for good cooling with less noise.

Just use the 12v line as positive and the 5v line as the negative. I do this with all my case fans

The "pipes" in the bigger cooler are "heat pipes" there's a liquid/gas inside that evaporates and condenses transferring heat to the fins.

[Edited on 22/9/07 by UncleFista]

As above ^^^^

Go for the biggest fan you can fit and run it slowly to reduce noise. The stock coolers are good at stock speeds and even a little higher but they build them to a cost so the fans are usually small and noisy. Your case cooling with have a big effect though.

Check the AMD fan to see if it has an on-board heat sensor/speed control. If both connectors are identical, the heatpipe cooler will probably be quieter anyway as it has a larger fan, especially if it is heat controlled by the motherboard.

[Edited on 23-9-07 by RazMan]

I used the AMD one in the end as the size of the samurai was a bit of a problem.

One big problem I encountered was the MB has a power connector with 24 pins and my power supply has a 20 pin, bugger!

Ebuyer have converters for only £2 so not a disaster, but it does mean I cannot fire up the computer until Tuesday night - and there was me getting all excited