Best socket A Athlon chip cooler??

[senectus]

A friend of mine just relised why the Golden Orbs suck, and needs to know what the best one to use at the moment is..

Any tips guys/girls?

[JungleMan1]

Darren likes the Antec JetCools, which I have been considering.

Although I'd look at the Alpha PAL 8045. Just make sure your board supports it, as it is a huge heatsink.

[Darren Wilson]

Buy what you are happy with. What works for some people may not work for others. I am having great success with a HSF that all the hardware sites rip into and getting temps nearly 20 Celcius lower than what they are getting using the same HSF.

Whatever you do though (and this is VERY important with the XP chips) is to make sure that the HSF you buy is on the AMD Recommended Thermal list and is rated for your EXACT CPU speed. You should not have any problems then though.

Oh, I forgot to add, don;t bother with a Coolermaster as if anything should go wrong with it they will just try to fob you off with a load of crap. They wouldn't even answer a query regarding one of their products because I wasn;t using one of their HSF's, but it wasn't about the HSF that the query was!!!!!! How friggin stupid is that????