Stock Cooler on Athlon64 3700+

[CommodoreRed]

Well, I have my parts. Just preparing to install later next week once my work permits time to do so. I neglected to spend my already burned supply of clams on a seperate HSF. Most likely a Zalman7000B copper HSF (around 40-50 bucks all can afford atm). Now, I know it's a lot quieter...

But for a non/minimal OCer like myself, the stock hsf that comes with this AMD should be good enough eh? I mean I can always replace later, but for my needs (yeah do some heavy gaming) but the stock hsf is good enough to keep cool enough?

 

[duality]

From my friend's experience, the stock will run just fine, his computer rarely crashed; his computer, though, crashed from a crap Thermaltake heatsink he put on the Radeon 9800XT.

He says he wouldn't overclock the processor, as the stock cooler's rather iffy...

 

[wicka]

I am using a 3000+ (but my 3700+ is in the mail) and the stock cooler keeps me around 36C usually, which is quite good, considering the stock cooler on my old Athlon XP kept me at 50C or so. I have heard that you can get some pretty decent overclocks out of the A64's with only stock cooling as well.