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Globalwin WBK38 (Modded)
What's in the package & Installation When I recieved my package I happily raced home to install it, don't forget to leave your computer off for a while the damn things are hot. When I finally had my other oem cooler removed and cpu cooled down I proceded to rip the box open and behold when I pulled out the WBK55 I nearly fell off my chair 'THIS THINGS BLOODY HUGE'. Yes thats a 92mm 55cfm fan strapped to the back side of the heatsink. I took the time to explore my new found joy and found two grills covering both sides of the fan, and two thick brackets holding the the fan to the heatsink (I suspect to keep the fan from launching itself into orbit). After a short time of oogling the WBK55 I proceded to make an attempt at installing it, and yes I do say 'attempt'. The clip is much larger then my older hsf and therefore much stiffer, though it has been approved by AMD requiring the force of 20lbs of force to install it. After the first ten minutes I was getting quite frustrated trying to get the clips to stay on both sides. I decided to call AMK to see if they could offer any 'tricks' to installing the hsf and upon inquiring if it crushes my core would they replace the cpu, answer: "NO" and Globalwin? "NO" what about AMD? "NO" - if its an oem cpu. Back to work, I switched from a tiny flat head screw driver to a dull knife (butter knife will work). Got one side on quite easily, the other side almost required me to lean all my weight onto the clip to slip it under the stub on the cpu socket. Installation of this product is not for the faint of heart, a few tips I can offer are, you might want to take your mobo out of your case first it, would be much easier, also you will probably have to remove your ram if your sockets sit in front of your cpu, and also any case fans that sit behind the cpu/hsf. Use a dull knife like I did, and screw driver to hold the adjustable side of the clip away from the heatsink while you are pushing down or it will just collapse against the side and won't go over the cpu socket. I would have provided pictures of my installation but I have a lack of a camera right now, so no pics (sorry). Well I finally got the damn thing installed and immediatley powered up the machine. It booted so I guess I didn't crush my core (thank god), next I dropped into the bios to monitor the temperature to see how much of a difference was made. After five minutes the temp stayed solid at 42 celcius @1.75Vcore and 900mhz (down from 54 celcius on my oem cooler), great so I have successfully dropped my temp by 12 degrees, now I wanted to see how high I could push the cpu and be stable. I bumped up the Vcore to 1.85volts and set the multiplier for 9.5, she booted solid at 950, back into the bios to monitor the temp, 45 celcius solid. So I let it go into Windows and no errors or stability issues. I ran a quick bench of 3dmark 2000, temps did not go above 47 celcius. Needless to say I was impressed. So now I have a Duron 700@958mhz 1.85 Vcore rock solid.
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