Best heatsink to use on a Athlon 64?

[martrox]

Just dipping my toes in the A64 arena, and would like to get a good - for O/C'ng - heatsink. Any recommendations?

 

[Snyder]

If you don't want to go watercooling, take a look at the Zalman 7000 series. (Available as pure Cu and Al/Cu mix)
Great cooling performance and still very quiet. Only downside is that it's quite huge and thus doesn't fit in smaller cases and on every mainboard - but Zalman has a compatibility list on their homepage. http://www.zalman.co.kr

 

[Helevitia]

I can only comment on the cooler I own. It is a Gigabyte Cooler Pro. My temps are 40-42c @ idle and 50-52c @ load with a 3500+.

They have higher end versions of my cooler. Check it out here:

http://www.giga-byte.com/Peripherals/Products/Products_3DCooler_NewProduct_List.htm

 

[Guden Oden]

Gigabyte heatpipe cooler is great, Thermaltake's "tower" heatpipe cooler is great too, possibly quieter also since you can strap on a big, slow-spinning fan to it and still get good performance.