Help choosing a fan/heatsink

[RobertXYZ]

I purchased an Athlon 64 X2 6400+ A2 Black Edition
processor.

It seems important that a AMD certified fan and heatsink
is used with the above CPU.

Anybody knows what model,type etc falls into that
category ?

Tks

Robert XYZ

 

[Vaanish]

Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro.

 

[veedubfreak]

Thermalright ultra extreme 120 But you saw that coming.

 

[Poizen22]

tuniq tower 120, just got one for my upcoming build, looks very nice.

 

[BiGyLiLuPdAmIdL]

I have the same cpu as you, so I know first hand lol. I bought the Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro and it works great on this cpu keeping it cool. It's inexpensive too. My cpu at 3.4ghz right now stays under 30 C.
Newegg.com - ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 64 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler - Retail

if you want cheap and good, then that's the best fan. If you got more money to spend then get something a little better, but this one works fine for me. For our processor, you aren't going to find anything that will keep it much cooler, unless you get water.

 

[Vaanish]

Yeah Ive got the Intel equivalent, my e6300 @ 3.1 never goes above 45*C.