12V CPU Cooling Fan, Extruded Aluminum Heatsink CPU Cooler Hydraulic Bearing 2200RPM High Speed 7015 Silent Fan for AMD

My 12 year old cooling fan died and the heat buildup fried my AMD Quad core 965 cpu. I upgraded to an AMD 6 core and used this fan to replace my old one. I installed the fan on my original heatsink with no problems or modifications. I did not use the low profile heatsink that came with the fan because the 6 core is a 125 watt CPU and my research indicated that the low profile heatsinks were good for 90 watt CPU's. I could not find any CPU wattage information for this unit. It used to make a lot of fan noise when I powered up because the fan automatically ran full speed until the motherboard controller slowed it down. I found a BIOS setting that eliminated that and the CPU normally runs between 26 to 28 degrees C and the fan is very quite.

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The new fan needed to be mounted on the old heat sink - easily done. Four screw spacers on the fan had to be removed. It snapped onto the old heat-sink The heat sink that came with the fan was pre-coated with thermal paste. The assembly was packaged sitting on a piece of plastic. I did not realise that it already had the paste applied and put the head sink down on the table and got the paste on the table-top. This was not a problem as I did not need or use the new heat-sink. The new fan is very quiet. Between the old fan and the old heat-sink there was a thick wad of dirt, dust, hair, etc. In the future I'll inspect the new fan (on the old heat-sink) periodically and clean it as needed.

I bought this as a replacement for a 13-year-old Asus desktop computer the fan and even the heatsink were entirely covered in grime and dust and black residue from smoking around it over the years, this product was perfectly easy to install and works well. However, I do believe my PC is attempting to run it at 3200 rpm instead of 2200 rpm causing my computer to restart. So please be aware of this.

Works great and easy to install.