AMD A8 3870k heatsink

Does anyone have any recommendations for a nice quiet heatsink for the A8? The stock heatsink is terrible, far too noisy. I have the Silverstone ML03B case which is pretty small and I'm hoping I can find a good one to fit in the case that is more quiet. Thanks!

Scythe SCBSK-2100 120mm Sleeve BIG Shuriken 2 Rev. B CPU Cooler

What ram do you have? and motherboard?

ASRock MB-A75M Socket FM1/ AMD A75 FCH/ SATA3&USB3.0/ A&GbE/ Micro ATX Motherboard
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-14900CL9D-4GBXL

im afraid your ram heatsinks are too tall,,,
will interfere with the Scythe SCBSK-2100 cooler.

(2012-04-12 16:12)tman12 Wrote:  ASRock MB-A75M Socket FM1/ AMD A75 FCH/ SATA3&USB3.0/ A&GbE/ Micro ATX Motherboard

As far as CPU cooler and case fans, it might be loud at first. After you installed all the drivers and software, you can go into bios to configure it. Since it is AsRock mobo, you can set CPU to "Cool ‘n’ Quiet" in Bios Advance tab and set the CPU operating temperature to 50 degrees in Bios Hardware/Health Monitor tab....and you can set both CPU and case fans to level 5......you can monitor the operating temperature. It should be quieter.....

I'm recommending update the AsRock Bios to 1.7 version from here- download

Great! I will give that a try once I get home from work this evening. I also have another question, would there be a significant benefit to adding the 6670 1GB card to this build? I am fairly happy with the performance I'm getting, but I just want it to be better. For example, I don't want to use DSplayer but when I use the stock player with DXVA turned on I get green artifacts for very highbitrate x264 movies. When I have DXVA turned off I don't get any artifacts but it almost needs to buffer - sound plays perfect but video struggles for a few secs and then catches up. I'm on wired network streaming from ReadyNas unit. I'm just wondering if adding the 6670 and using crossfire with the onboard 6650 would significantly improve my performance. Thanks for responding so quickly, you guys have been great on this forum.

i wonder whats wrong...
you shouldnt have green artifacts with DXVA2 turned on!
you shouldnt need a separate GPU card!
update your GPU drivers, make sure u use latest

I am on the very latest graphics drivers for the 6650 - not sure if I have the GPU drivers installed. I know I did when I first built the PC but I had to reinstall Windows so I might have forgotten to install the AMD chipset drivers. I sure hope that is the problem because this is so frustrating! I thought this build was going to be a beast - hopefully it still will be!

(2012-04-12 16:17)eskro Wrote:  im afraid your ram heatsinks are too tall,,,
will interfere with the Scythe SCBSK-2100 cooler.

Not to hijack the thread, but will that cooler work with the same mobo and this ram?

http://www.Newegg.com/Product/Product.as...20-104-231

yes lath19, Scythe SCBSK-2100 works with any Kingston Ram to my knowledge.
except special edition versions like --> KHX1600C9D3X1K2/8GX