Originally posted by: edub2006
what are some alternate cooling solutions?
The stock heatsink with ur opty should be heatpipe one, from what i head and i dont kow if i'm correct there are 2 versions, one with 2 heatpipes and one with 4.
If u have the latter it should perform comparable to the aftermarket coolers.
Firstly since u said stock i assume ur using the stuff which came with the stock heatsink, change the paste to arctic silver 5 and see if that drops the temps. Otherwise u can buy an aftermarket cooler, big typhoon, xp90, xp120 are a few good ones.
I dont think getting water cooling is worth for opterons even if overclocked they dont nearly produce enough heat to worry about. If u were sitting at something like 62C, then there would be something to worry about (in fact that was my temp with the stock aluminium cooler) So as long as ur bellow 55C its fine.