it says " Heatsink and Fan. " ... Does this mean a proper heatsink and fan such as a "Scythe Katana 4" is not needed?
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.
1887036
It's a pretty small heatsink. If you plan on doing any gaming I would recommend upgrading to something better. But for basic use it'll do just fine.
1887037
Well, It comes with a Heat sink and fan, but I wouldn't use it. Then again, I Over Clock. I never installed the stock Heat sink. I ordered a Corsair A-70. I run mine at 4.2GHZ and it goes to 44.8C under stress test. You reference the SK-4, that would also work well. But If your not going to OC, no need for after market HS.
595074
It comes with a heatsink/fan with thermal paste already on it. Just place the fan assembly on top of the microprocessor and hook the 4 hold owns to your motherboard.
1232144
You can always add a fan or heatsink? I usually add both to all my cards if they don't have them.
1187419
There's no need. Comes with the two 120mm fans installed with lights and the 200mm fan on the side. My PC runs cool as hell. There's no need for anything more than that. Grab the air cooled older master CPU cooler and you'll run optimal. This is the most amazing case. Build quality is superb. It looks so good.
274088
The stock heatsink and fan that comes with the cpu works fine for me and I have it installed in one of those very compact htpc cases (Antec ISK-100) over a year now. This processor is NOT the overclocked version which is usually called the (K) model so I don't see why it would be necessary to have a third party state of the art heatsink and fan. I guess if you purchased the overclocked cpu version of this processor and planned on pushing it to the limits then I would recommend finding a much better heatsink and fan unit over the stock model. I have a really nice and expensive Cool Master heatsink and fan unit on a desktop computer and I don't see any difference in performance or heating issues over the stock heatsink and fan with the exception of more noise that the Cool Master makes because of it's larger and faster fan. I'm sorry to say, I was once bitten by the performance bug when building that ole desktop and should have just saved the money and go stock instead.
945823
Yes. I find it funny that people say get a Cooler Master heatsink when in fact, the cooler that comes with this CPU is made by Cooler Master, but it seems to have a small cheap fan. I upgraded to a larger fan.
925907
From the box shot and price I would guess No I would say you need to add a heatsink and fan
1781026
The case comes with a power supply which has a fan and a small case fan on the side/top of the unit. There are no places to install additional fans. One nice thing though is that the CPU fan has a vent directly above it. So in a way the CPU fan acts as a case fan because the case is so small and the side vent is so close to the CPU. I'm running an A10-5800K APU and I haven't had overheating issues. I did have overheating issues when I attempted to overclock it. It's not exactly an overclocking case. You're most likely going to be fine with up to 100W TDP CPU or APU in this case. I highly recommend looking into AMDs line of APUs. With an APU in this thing you can make a mighty fine SteamBox. One thing worth mentioning is that this case is TIGHT! My CD drive is touching my ram. There is no extra clearance. If you get ram that has huge cooling fins you may have a bad day depending on the layout of your motherboard.
2022065
It comes with a very small fan which you can attach to the heatsink but it virtually doesn't need a fan. It idles about 39c and I have yet to see it get over 48c under a normal load
119246
the drive in the heatsink apears to be an SAS (SCSI Attached Serial), however, as it is mentioned, the drive does run hot, so I would not use it without the heatsink, as the drive WILL overheat, causing catastrophic failure..
1787480
No it is just the processor. However, I would not use a stock heat sink on this processor anway. You are better off buying an Artic Cooler for about $30.
1528652
No, you shouldn't have to. The is incredibly easy to remove from the heatsync, so IF the fan is over existing ram sticks or an empty ram slot you plan on adding to, you can just take off the fan, install the ram and you'd be good. Hope this helps!
1336027
Yes it come with the heatsink fan, but not 100% sure about the thermal paste.
1136687
No fan or heat sink, unless otherwise stated by the company, Mine came just processor and thermal compound
925905
From the box shot and price I would guess NoI would say you need to add a heatsink and fan
256081
This kit came with a little heat sink. I overclocked it and the heat sink barely even warms up I don't think a fan would be a great investment for this setup. Not to mention you wouldn't be able to close the case being it is very tight as is.
67415
Yes. It comes with a heat sink but if your building a gaming rig then by a newer processor this one sucks.