At stock settings is this stable without an external cooling device?
2061832
Yes it is stable, however I would use a small fan to ensure longer life of the device.
2061833
Yes, but I would recommend one. The arctic breeze fan is only around 8 bucks.worth it to protect your investment.
2061834
I run 4 of them right now with one slot empty in between them and it will run without a fan.However, these seem to dip to 1.4 GHash/s after awhile (even with a fan). Could be my USB hub. Seems fine if restarted.
2061835
the ant1 does get hot, but does not overheat! however I would suggest the external fan
2061836
I run 4 of them right now with one slot empty in between them and it will run without a fan. However, these seem to dip to 1.4 GHash/s after awhile (even with a fan). Could be my USB hub. Seems fine if restarted.
2209534
The "DC" is for direct cooling. It includes liquid cooling on the gpu to help keep temperatures down. Not a necessity however I prefer to have components staying as cool as possible.
937446
i wouldnt suggest OC on stock heatsink. the EVO 212 looks similar to what i got (Arctic Freeze 7 pro), i have my system OC at 4Ghz and in a full tower case i get no more that 55 C during the summer (in oklahoma we have high humidity for the summer), and now with winter set in it stays sub 45 C
1476220
No, it comes with a stock fan, but if you're going to overclock it is recommended to buy an after market cooler.
1366828
I would use another case fan over leaving the case open. I doubt stock cooler would cover full overclocking without instability.
354917
Short additional answer is yes. You might even be able to use your current cooler too or stock cooler. I run mine with a noctura but if you aren't overclocking I wouldn't worry about it. Check your temperature using Core Temp application. You can use CPU ID to check voltage and slightly under volt to keep temps down but you sacrifice some performance. Easier to get a good air cooler.
1957448
I own the A10-5700 and it cools the APU pretty good. I have not looked at the temps in a while, but I believe it was the high 40s C° when streaming.
67516
AMD says it's supposed to run hot. To keep cool, turn up fan on card, have well venelated case, or use external fan. Card is so worth it. Buy it.
1933304
This has XFXs custom cooler, not the reference design. In my case, I see temps around 80 degrees C at load.
1670551
Even battlefield 4 and Crysis 3 runs cool on this laptop. The fans become slightly audible, but it is a whirring noise, not a whining one. No laptop cooler is necessary. The keyboard stays cool.
2225089
This always depends upon what you nave to do with it. By the way, since it is not overclockable and its frequency clock is moderately high, I think you can easily keep its stock cooling fan (like as I did)
1887035
The stock heatsink and fan have never let me down, and I've been using AMD's for ages and ages. Granted, I don't bother overclocking my system. They are throttled based on temp. You can always change the fan if your setup runs so hot the fan can't keep up.
1774889
Well, I have four fans cooling my system and when gaming I let them spin pretty fast. Don't really care about excessive sound because I'm wearing a headset most of the time. With stock fan/heat sink mine is very cool while idle, and have never seen it above 60C while playing some of the most demanding games. Yes the fan and heat sink could be better but for me it's fine.
2162348
My experience: I have a fan-less PSU and the stock setup is adequate. However, I do not use their included fan splitter, because my motherboard supported multi-zone tuning (no evidence that this is better/worse... YMMV). Fans are off/low most of the time under normal load. Hope this helps...
155628
No. the stock heat sink has pre-installed thermal paste on it. (so good for a first timer). and if you are looking for a non OE heatsink i used the Arttic Freezer 7 Pro 2 (also has pre-installed thermal paste). it keeps my temps down quite a bit (average is around 40-50 Degrees C, which is pretty good). if you are going to be gaming with this CPU i suggest getting a non OE heatsink.
45363
yes.the stock cooler is not enough for the job. and the CPU wull shut down due to over heating.better to get an after market cooler
1949742
I actually had mine in a pretty small, mini-itx build. It stayed reasonably cool during most day-to-day operations with the stock fan, between 35C and 50C--and that's without any other case fans. As long as you aren't doing anything too CPU-intensive, I'd consider the stock fan pretty adequate. Good luck with you build