Hello. I'm building an AMD (949) low-noise machine and considering a Zalman 7000 heat sink/fan. However, it's twice the recommended weight, and with all the liability warnings about moving the PC, and the fact that the company I'm ordering from won't even ship a machine with this HS on it - I'm just plain nervous about whether or not to buy it. I'm in my current machine a fair amount, and I need to know what level of handling it would take for this sink to destroy my new FX chip (or MB - or both)? Could someone please tell me if I would have to put on gloves and handle my machine like a 50lb Faberge Egg, or if it would be perfectly fine for practical use (picking it up, setting on desk, laying it flat, setting it down, etc.) Thanks in advance.

i don't think it even fits the new slot 949. Also, if your so nervous about that heatsink, then why don't you just buy another heatsink and fan. you don't totally need a zalman 7000 do you Athlon XP 2000+ 1674mhz DDRSDRAM: 728MB @ 133Mhz Shuttle:MK32n junk mobo 160GB WD 40GB seagate LG DVD-RW RICOH CD-RW 32x10x40 3x blue,Green led case fans blue led bullets

It does fit according to their website, but my main concern is quiet. It's true I won't be overclocking but I stay at home and write all day on my current machine -- and the fan noise drives me absolutely crazy. (I want the fast chip for Photoshop, and the occasional game)

I have that heatsink on my abit board right now. I take my machine to the garage every couple of months to use the air compressor on it and i have had no troubles doing so. A word of warning though, make sure the board you buy has 2 holes by the CPU socket because this heatsink is actually screwed to the board. even though my board has these 2 holes i still had to dig out my dremel tool and modify the heatsink because the mounting bracket on it was too large and it was hiting a couple of capacitors on the board. You may also want to do further research as to what slothboy said and make sure that zalman makes a 7000 series heatsink for that socket. My cpu is a barton core and my heatsink sits directly on top of it. The pictures of amd 64's that i have seen dont have an exposed core from what i can tell. Have the lambs stopped crying Clarice?

Is it the heatsink that makes a system quiet, or the fan that gets mounted on it? Hmmmmmm........ http://www.dansdata.com/coolercomp.htm Asus A7N8X-X 1800+ @8x210mhz 512mb PC3200 Ti4200/8X 128mb WDC 60GB

if it's the screw on type heatsink, then you will probably be fine I am using the amd stock heatsink fan and when i went to Seattle last month for the day to visit my sister in college, i took my computer with me to use her internet i removed the pci cards, vid card, extra hdd, and one fan, and my stick of ram i put the thing in it's cardboard box and layed it motherboard side down in the trunk of the car for a 6 hour drive going tops 70mph and in the bumpy streets and hills in Seattle it was fine i carried it up 4 flights of stairs in a dorm reassmebled it, played games and did some dling and dissassebled it and packed it up then, the amazing thing was on the return trip home, i removed all the same stuff, but i forgot to lay the case down right and the motherboard was upside down! in other words, the case was window side down and everything was still fine after 6 more hours of driving! the heatsink never even budged! and i cant even hear it when it's goin 3000rpm and im still overclockin my 2500 to 3200 speed and never go beyond 49 degrees C in gaming common sense isn't very common