AMD 6400+ cooler

[Justas]

Hello all.

I was wondering what heat sink would go well with a 6400+ AM2 CPU on a Asus Crosshair motherboard. Price range would hopefully be around 50, if not lower. Any suggestions are appreciated. Active air cooling only please.

Thanks

[puntoMX]

Any thing from NCIX top 10 coolers will do fine, list here .

[Justas]

Cool thanks. I was just worried about some of the heat sinks that are low, or may hit some of the heat pipes on the motherboard.

[puntoMX]

There are extreme big coolers but all with fit if it’s made for AM2. Personally I like the AC coolers like the Arctic Cooling Freezer 64.

--- EDIT ---

By the way, I see that the cool ribs are about 40-45mm high, the socket with the CPU will be 8mm or so, so you need 38-42mm play under the cooler...

So I take back what I said in my first post here...

This is an example taken from Scythe that should fit:

Justas, could you give us the height of those cooling ribs please?

[Justas]

Hmmm, don't have exact specs. And I don't have the part with me.

First time using this board as well so I am not too sure what will work with it.