I recently bought a 1.6ghz socket A AMD for a friend's comp... then found out it didn't come with a sink or fan. I was wondering if I go online buy a sink and fan do I have to be specific about a socket A cpu or will any sink fit? Do they sell oem AMD sinks for cheap? Or can anyone recommend a few.
Heat sink for socket A AMD
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gamingslave
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Yes you do need to bye a socket a HSF. Since the clock speed is quite low so a cheap HSF should work well, you can nornally find cheap one on any good pc tech website.
Nubius
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No this is not true. He can't go and get an AMD64 heatsink and try and fit it on an Athlon or Athlon XP processor.
You need to look for a Socket A or Socket 462 (Socket A IS Socket 462, 462 just referrs to the amount of pins in the processors, but they are the same thing, sometimes it's displayed as Socket A(462) )
Anywho, yeah look for Socket A(462) heatsink.
Just check out zipzoomfly.com or newegg.com they have a nice selection of them and pretty cheap ones too which will be all you need
majistic
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www.newegg.com, It is socket A.
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