Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

What cooler are you using?
I just a look on the Arctic Cooling site and many of their current CPU coolers are compatible with socket 939 and 754!

heh, just a stock AMD AM2 heatpipe cooler that comes free with their BE processors. Had one lying around doing nothing. It's really an amazing piece of kit, better than anything except the best air coolers and quiet too (it's all about the right fan settings and temps). Another example of not believing everything you read on the net.

And swaaye is right, any clamp-on AM2/ AM3 cooler fits s754/ 939 as well.

Only the bold thru coolers might be incompatible due to different mounting patterns- AM2/3 have 4 screws thru the motherboard, while 939 uses only two.

I've had a couple of AMD's stock heatpipe coolers. One came with a Phenom II X4 940 BE and the other with my Opteron 165. They are quality coolers indeed. Quiet enough for HTPC use!

However, I once bought a pair of Athlon 64 X2 5400+ BE CPUs, and they did not come with coolers! I was shocked. I had dimly assumed that all AMD retail box chips came with a cooler.

swaaye wrote:

I've had a couple of AMD's stock heatpipe coolers. One came with a Phenom II X4 940 BE and the other with my Opteron 165. They are quality coolers indeed. Quiet enough for HTPC use!

However, I once bought a pair of Athlon 64 X2 5400+ BE CPUs, and they did not come with coolers! I was shocked. I had dimly assumed that all AMD retail box chips came with a cooler.

If they came boxed, they should've come with stock coolers. If they were tray, you'd get only the CPU.

Here in The Netherlands it's usually told if a CPU that's being sold is boxed or tray.

Tetrium wrote:

If they came boxed, they should've come with stock coolers.

That's a negative. They went cheap.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?It … N82E16819103289 (look at details)

Wake me when someone has an unbelievable deal on a Black Edition X6. {*yawn*}

swaaye wrote:

Tetrium wrote:

If they came boxed, they should've come with stock coolers.

That's a negative. They went cheap.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?It … N82E16819103289 (look at details)

Idd, they mention these come without cooler. Too bad though, those stock ones with the heatpipes are pretty good

Depending on the time, model and market, there were some boxed A64 BEs that came without the cooler.

swaaye wrote:

AFAIK any heatsink that's AM2/3 compatible will work with 939 and 754 too. The mounting design is essentially the same. Not sure about little-chatted-about 940.

Socket 940 used the same mounting design as it's siblings, although I think some boards didn't come with the plastic mounting bracket so they could be used with Opteron fans of the day.

maddmaxstar wrote:

swaaye wrote:

AFAIK any heatsink that's AM2/3 compatible will work with 939 and 754 too. The mounting design is essentially the same. Not sure about little-chatted-about 940.

Socket 940 used the same mounting design as it's siblings, although I think some boards didn't come with the plastic mounting bracket so they could be used with Opteron fans of the day.

And opterons come with little plastic clips so you can either use optie heatsinks, OR 939/940 clip ons. I kept 4 sets of them, but I dont know why.

Zalman 9500's are AWESOME universal heatsinks. I use them for my opties.

luckybob wrote:

Zalman 9500's are AWESOME universal heatsinks. I use them for my opties.

I used to have one of those bad boys (the Platinum-Green LED Nvidia version) on my Phenom 9600, but sold it with the Phenom, really nice fan. Sadly my overall opinion of Zalman has been tainted by my Craptastic CNPS8000, a low profile fan that's a b**ch to mount, doesn't fit every board due to bad design, doesn't cool well and is noisy, I still have it sadly.

I currently use a Cooler Master HyperTX2, which is still going strong after 3 years, and currently keeping my X6 1090T nice and cool.

luckybob wrote:

Zalman 9500's are AWESOME universal heatsinks. I use them for my opties.

I agree, I had a copper 9700 back in the day for my AM2 and 775 rig, fantastic little cooler.

OP-very nice rig, cool to see people tricking out modern "retro" rigs