Boxed AMD processors

[.Cask]

Well I ordered an athlon XP2500+ yesterday. Went for the boxed version to save the trouble of picking up a seperate heatsink and fan, but turns out that they're out of stock and I'll be waiting a few days for a boxed retail version.

Is it worth the wait? I couldn't really find any information on what heatsink and fan is supplied with the boxed version so I have no basis for comparison. But I would have thought that AMD would be supplying equipment that is more than adequate for the task.

I could cancel the order and get an OEM processor instead along with a seperate fan and heatsink. A friend suggested getting a thermaltake volcano for budget cooling (I'm poor.) But really need more advice before doing something rash like that

Cheers.

 

[Embattle]

The heatsinks you normally get with the Retail versions are average and it would most probably be better to get the OEM version and then a HSF.

 

[.Cask]

Thanks Emb.

Any recommendations? I want something cheap and noisy

 

[Embattle]

At under £20 the Volcano 9 is one of the better HSF.

 

[danger]

Yeah also the generic AMD HSF's make one hell of a racket... I'd say go with a Zalman (teh win) but they're about £35 although noiseless

 

[smurkin]

Just out of interest....what price for the amd ?...I went out tio buy a new amd today (urrmm well, I wanted a Barton 2800 333MHz) and I couldnt believe how expensive they are atm....and not just the Barton....I

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

High end AMD stuff is insanely expensive, I think I was shown 9 quid dearer (!) for a Barton XP 3gig compared to a true 3 gig P4 with hyper threading.

 

[Embattle]

The Barton range of processor have 512K secondary cache which tends to make them more expensive than past models. I got my 2800+ from Komplett as they were the cheapest and still seem to be the cheapest http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/kl.asp?AvdID=1&CatID=4&GrpID=6&t=795&l=2:

2800+ £299.90
3000+ £456.67