Best HSF for Athlon 1.4?

[Guest]

If this has been covered elsewhere, I apologize. I did read through this forum a bit and Tom's recent CPU coolers article, but I want a bit more specific answer.

What is the best heat sink/fan combo for an Athlon T-bird 1.4 Gig processor that I'm putting on an Asus A7M266 board. I plan on dabbling in overclocking with this setup and want to put on the best HSF cooler. All the coolers Tom listed in his article all referred to cooling Pentium processors. Does it make a difference which processor those HSF coolers go on (Pentium versus AMD Athlon)?

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Guest]

Okay, I did a little more reading in this forum and it would seem the SwifTech MFC462 is the most highly regarded HSF for the Athlon 1Gig+ CPUs. Any arguments with that assesment? Anyone want to recommend where to get one of these puppies?

Regards,

Prowler

 

[Boondock_Saint]

Right on the dot, man. The Swifttech MC462 is THE BEST heatsink/fan you can get.

 

[AMD_Man]

Hmm, well, the GlobalWin WBK38 is not the best but it certainly does a fine job of cooling my Athlon at 1.4GHz. I get mid-30s C idle and mid 40s C load.

 

[forgettythatty]

That thing is heavy and loud. I already recommended the best heat sink and fan in the share secrets post. To give you an idea of how loud these fans will be check this:

http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/tecar.html