4 throttled down, the temperature dropped to within the high end of reasonable limits. When the heatsink was placed back on the CPU, the temperature dropped drastically. Heatsinks are very effective at siphoning heat. When the CPU reached a very low temperature,...

stock heatsinks are not very effective ones... But they are good enough for handling the processors at stock speed... there are lot of possibilities of heating since AMD athlon, and then overclockers disband the stock heatsinks replacing with aftermarket....

Alternatively, for the same amount of fan noise, you can overclock higher. If you aren't going to overclock, the Phenom II 920 is better value. The Phenom I 9XX stock heatsinks are very effective, but also noisy. If You are not overclocking only reason for...

as the tbird 750 you are sorely mistaken. When amd decides to release a faster grade chip, and that chips thermal output is above the minimum for the current stock heatsink, they DO upgrade the heatsink. In effect revisi...

heatpipe going to the area behind the CPU, then there is a part of the stock heatsink which can be un-screwed to install a water-block or third party heatsink. In effect, I think the stock heatsink is modular of sorts. I'm going to un-screw the top part of...

result in higher core temps (for equal power). However, the majority of this effect is negated by the heatspreader and the heatsink (assuming both being equal), but since no heatsink will ever achieve a infinite thermal conductivity, a 80mm² 80W chip will...

but strength and rigidity (lighter, softer, prettier etc.) It's a better conductor of heat too, but the giant heatsink effect of aluminium cases is vastly overrated. There is a silent/fanless 300W PSU that uses heat pipes attached to an aluminium housing, but...

motherboard, I am not familiar with it but doesn't sound like an overclocker. What kind of northbridge/southbridge cooling? Cheap heatsink? This can have an effect on your cpu temp. First I would try reseating the water block. Its a pain but it is the...

with dual fans for air intake at the bottom of the front of the case as well as a fan on top of the case (heat rises, this is most efficient) and behind the case for host air exhaust. The pure aluminum case acts almost like a giant heatsink, more effectively...