InfiniteMac OSx86 - View Single Post - None of the temparature sensors found for AMD turion

naquaada · 04-05-2009, 12:38 PM

Hmm... if I'm counting, the fan of my Athlon XP which fell out was an Arctic Cooling, the one which I had on my FX-55 which I owned for some time was an Artic Cooling 64 - temperature up to 55°C, my friend which CPU was turning istelf off also is an Artic Cooling, a very fat thing with hig heatpipes and so. I never counted this, but if your cpu also gets very hot with the Arctic Cooling stuff then it may be a reason to think about changing the cooler.

I hadn't the FX-55 for very long time. I bought the Artic Cooling for it, but it was much to hot with it. I reverted to a big AMD cooler, but it was too loud. So I sold the FX-55 again, there was no noticeable speed difference to my 4000+ which only has 200 Mhz less. In 2007 I got a bundle with an Opteron 185, board, RAM and a huge Scythe Mugen cooler. It wasn't possible to get it into a standard case, so I put the thing in my HTPC case which has to be open all the time. But you don't see it because it's directly unter a table. This thing was great, and after I got my second Opteron 185 I wanted to buy another Scythe cooler, and I chose the Shuriken. Because it's so flat there's a good airflow to the back cooler. And this thing also works great, even in a closed case. I got for my parents an Opteron 180 now (for 44 Euro!!!!

), they also get a Shuriken.

I was never a friend of non-standard cpu coolers, maybe due to my bad experiences with Artic Cooling. Or so monstous Zalman fans for which the backplate must be replaced or some other rework is neccessary. But I'm really convinced by the Scythe coolers, they fit on nearly every socket by using special adapters and especcially the Shuriken doesn't need any mounting tools at all.