What S939 coolers are...

[shaithis]

Better then the AMD retail one for cooling and look good for a windowed case with UV lighting?

Must not be one of the ones that require you to change the heatsink/fan retension cage on the motherboard.

TIA

[Reaps]

Why don't you want to change the retention clip?

Imho, I think the xp120 looks the best but i'm biased

[nvening]

opinion should be biast, that how its opinion, anywat

apparently there is a new freezer 64 coming out, the pro version, i have it on order if the cooling shop ever gets it in.

[Rohan]

The Thermaltake Big Typhoon is supposed to perform very well, is almost silent, and has a nice big orange fan that would look good in a windowed case.

[Lee H]

I'm running the FX-57 "heatpipe" cooler on both my AMD 64 3500+ based system. Cracking cooler, great performance and they also have fans that are a doddle to remove and change for "UV or LED" ones like I have

Its also VERY easy to clean - simply remove the plastic casing holding the fan on but gently prising the sides, and voila - get an old toothbrush and dust down

[shaithis]

Why don't you want to change the retention clip?

Because all the ones I've seen so far use an X shaped peice of metal on the back that the retention bracket screws into......there are normally very small components where this sits and it makes me feel uncomfortable having a backing plate being pulled tight against these components.

The Thermaltake Big Typhoon is supposed to perform very well, is almost silent

I see it supports Intel chips as well, which makes me think I will need to change my retention mechanism and the TT website says nothing about installation......do you know if it comes with s939 retention clips or does it still require you to make your motherboard accept intel designed heatsinks?

[shaithis]

I'm running the FX-57 "heatpipe" cooler on both my AMD 64 3500+ based system. Cracking cooler, great performance and they also have fans that are a doddle to remove and change for "UV or LED" ones like I have

This one?

[Reaps]

Because all the ones I've seen so far use an X shaped peice of metal on the back that the retention bracket screws into......there are normally very small components where this sits and it makes me feel uncomfortable having a backing plate being pulled tight against these components.

The bracket needed (if your mobo doesn't already have one on the back) is of a plastic variety and that's just to spread the load.

The plastic retention bit round the cpu comes with most good hsf as it needs to be screwed on. I would rather have a bracket on the back of the motherboard spreading the load than put the life of the cpu cooling in the hands of plastic clips.

I had to buy a Arctic Silencer 64 just for the rear bracket as the asrock dual-sata2 doesn't have one even though it's in the amd spec

[Lee H]

This one?

Nope... not that one - thats the Evo cooler

I've got this one below - slightly modded of course

[Rohan]

Because all the ones I've seen so far use an X shaped peice of metal on the back that the retention bracket screws into......there are normally very small components where this sits and it makes me feel uncomfortable having a backing plate being pulled tight against these components.



I see it supports Intel chips as well, which makes me think I will need to change my retention mechanism and the TT website says nothing about installation......do you know if it comes with s939 retention clips or does it still require you to make your motherboard accept intel designed heatsinks?

I've not used one myself, but according to this review the BT uses the regular AMD64 backplate found on most motherboards: http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk/rev...?id=134&page=5

[Trippledence]

Nope... not that one - thats the Evo cooler

I've got this one below - slightly modded of course

Can you buy then retail, as they look like one of the best heatsinks that isnt stupid looking.

[Trash Man]

I think my XP120 looks very nice in my windowed case.

[RoGuE|SaBeR]

I have the Coolermaster Hyper 6 + and it does the job very nicely.

[killkoy]

some of the reviews for these are good and it as blue leds

[merlin2001]

for what it's worth - custompc magazine did a review of the Gigabyte GH PDU21-MF-G Power (in scan under the multi CPU coolers) - supposed to be v.easy to fit on s939 boards with v.good performance. will be upgrading to a s939 platform soon and thinking about getting this one...

[Reaps]

I think my XP120 looks very nice in my windowed case.

It does, doesn't it. And i thought my SP-97 was big Just glad it isn't as heavy!