Cooling Affordable\Effecient Cooling Solution help plz

Hi,

I just recently got a new PC built myself, it has an AMD Athlon 64 3000+, and is using the stock heatsink/fan. I would like to do some overclocking, but my temp at startup is 62 cel. . I've been looking around for a decent heatsink on various websites, but i have no idea what it better than what. I'm asking anyone that has a little spare time to please help me with what to look for in a CPU heatsink. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Chris

 

btw

o0o and btw, these are a couple of the heatsinks i was looking at:

http://www.frozencpu.com/cgi-bin/frozencpu/cpu-swi-11.html

http://www.frozencpu.com/cgi-bin/frozencpu/cpu-tta-20.html

http://www.frozencpu.com/cgi-bin/frozencpu/cpu-tta-21.html

 

Stay away from the swiftech, to difficult to mount. Thermaltake tower 112 is alright though.

 

CPU temp

also is it just me or does that 62 cel seem way too high for being idle?

 

Yes it does, but there are also a lot of factors.

 

Go through the motions; take off your heatsink, get rid of the paste, re-apply the paste in a thin and even layer, reseat heatsink making sure it is in contact with the CPU. It's happened to us all before .

Also:

http://www.frozencpu.com/cgi-bin/frozencpu/cpu-tta-12.html
http://www.frozencpu.com/cgi-bin/frozencpu/cpu-tta-17.html
http://www.frozencpu.com/cgi-bin/frozencpu/cpu-tri-12.html -

 

wow

crap, that last one looks like it belongs in a car

 

i have some thing similur to this one
http://www.frozencpu.com/cgi-bin/fr...cpu-tta-12.html
butt it's for a socket A