Increased contact pressure between the CPU die and the heat sink, thermal conductive tape or paste and larger, more effective heat sinks. Couple to this a 60mm or 80mm thermally variale fan and you have the average solution today. Madison Ladislav Svatos wrote:

On December 9, 2003 09:00 am, Madison Kelly wrote:

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What CPU and is the Heat Sink and FAN supplied by the manufacturere (AMD or Intel)?

Madison

I have an AMD processor and the noise is not that bad. The motherboard is an old Asus A7V. The motherboard supports fan speed control, but it never actually worked. Asus probably got it working in later versions of the MB. I would like to know what are the thermal solutions for new CPUs having to dissipate 100W of heat.

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