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#709 - ECS C51GM-M AM2 Motherboard |
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Written by Zach Jeffers
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Thursday, 03 August 2006 |
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The Retail AM2:
Let's take a quick look at the retail AM2 Sempron 3000+ and its included cooler. You can see that the included HSF is all aluminum and has a low RPM 80mm fan manufactured by Nidec. You can see that the standard lever-arm is used to retain this cooler.
Looking down the length of the retail AMD cooler, you can see that it made up of thirty five aluminum fins. On the underside of the heat sync AMD as included a pre-applied thermal compound. Once installed, the retention lever-arm easily seats the cooler down without any hassles. One thing that I noticed, and it is a bit hard to see in the picture, is that the retention clip on the lever has no where to lock in! I don't know if this is error on the retention bracket's side or the cooler just being universal, normally click in on a socket 939, but I do know that it stays put and there is no harm done letting it stay there unlocked.
Looking at the CPU, you can see that it looks practically no different from the front. The difference is practically not noticeable, unless you know how to read the AMD processor markings. In the second picture, you can see how the pre-applied thermal compound, from the retail cooler, makes contact. Note this was done after a test mount of the HSF and a standard system burn-in would probably even out the compound. Some may want to replace this with their own compound, but it should do just fine for a Sempron.
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