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PC Stats has posted a Taisol CEK787172 Socket A Heatsink review



Faced with stocking a whole series of brand new low cost AMD-based PCs with coolers? If that's the case, the extruded aluminum Taisol CEK787172 socket 462 heatsink may just do the trick. To make installation a quick affair, the CEK787172 even comes with a pre-applied patch of Honeywell PCM45 thermal grease. This is a dead plain cooler, with no frills whatsoever; there are no flashing lights, no fancy copper plated components, no fan controllers, nada. While the CEK787172 heatsink is dead basic, for older systems where cost and reliability is a factor, a heatsink such as this can usually meet the requirements; plus, it's AMD Approved for Barton cores up to the AthlonXP 3000+.
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