I am building my first gaming computer and I do not intend to overclock. I found this page (from a larger article about cooling, generally), and an ambiguous referent has me confused.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/cooling-airflow-heatsink,review-32315-5.html
To clarify wherein my confusion lies:
So, do AMD and Intel include tower coolers or heat-sink-and-fan-combinations with their boxed CPUs? (LOL at poor writing style.) I did some searching and I'm finding that, 1) the cooling solutions included with boxed CPUs seem to be heat-sink-and-fan-combinations, and 2) Google doesn't seem to know what a tower cooler is. Thus, neither do I.
Can I get a little help here? Super noob feeling SUPER noobish. What's the difference, if any? And if there is a difference, do I need to be looking into buying an alternative cooling solution to what comes with my CPU? No one I've talked to up to this point has given me any indications to that effect (since I'm expressly not interested, at least at this juncture) in overclocking.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/cooling-airflow-heatsink,review-32315-5.html
To clarify wherein my confusion lies:
Tower coolers are preferable to the heat sink and fan combinations that blow air down into the processors (incidentally, both AMD and Intel include these with their retail boxed processors).
So, do AMD and Intel include tower coolers or heat-sink-and-fan-combinations with their boxed CPUs? (LOL at poor writing style.) I did some searching and I'm finding that, 1) the cooling solutions included with boxed CPUs seem to be heat-sink-and-fan-combinations, and 2) Google doesn't seem to know what a tower cooler is. Thus, neither do I.
Can I get a little help here? Super noob feeling SUPER noobish. What's the difference, if any? And if there is a difference, do I need to be looking into buying an alternative cooling solution to what comes with my CPU? No one I've talked to up to this point has given me any indications to that effect (since I'm expressly not interested, at least at this juncture) in overclocking.