So I finally got my AIO water cooler for my CPU working quietly. I had to remove the existing 48db fans and replaced them with Noctua NF-F12 fans. The existing cooler is a Zalman Reserator 3 Max Dual. It's a OK cooler I have some gripes with it but this isn't a review. Anyway because my system didn't need the Cooler Master Hyper 212 which is a great after market CPU cooler for cheap. I again am off point. However I knew my boyfriend's computer was very loud. assuming that it had a AMD stock cooler I decided that he could benefit from the Hyper 212. I got in to his case and omg did I find some dust bunnies. I pulled his heatsink out pulling the CPU right along with it. I was shocked it was as if the heat spreader of the AMD FX6300 was cemented to the CPU cooler. I got out a razor blade and carefully removed the excess thermal compound or should I say cement. Put the edge of the blade between the heat spreader of the CPU and of the heatsink at a corner. I tapped the back side of the blade think the CPU came loose. Eureka the rest was child's play. Got the cooler installed cleaned out the case and hooked it all back up. Tonight he tried out some games he hasn't been able to play for a while and they worked great. I can only assume that his CPU was overheating which was causing a number of problems.
I guess the point of this long story is that you should maintain the inside of your computer at least annually and sometimes all you need to do is a little spring cleaning. This could have been expensive if his CPU burned up or if we replaced his system because we thought it was just shit hardware.
Here is a picture of his heatsink.
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3.) Noctua NF-F12
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