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We
have been through this drill before. You buy a brand spankin new
AMD CPU and it comes with some really lame HSF combo that just barely
keeps the CPU from becoming fried silicon with a system sitting
on the tundras of Siberia. So what is going to happen when either
the summer comes and it starts getting hot, or you try to OC that
CPU? Bottom line: Nothing. That’s because your stock HSF will
give out and the CPU becomes just another expensive keychain.
To
avoid that you need to get some better cooling, and fast. However,
you just broke the bank on the new motherboard, CPU, and a kicking
video card, so you have to do this without spending the last of
your Bawls funds. So, with that in mind we are taking a look at
the 2nd generation of the Dominator HSF from OCZ, the Dominator
2-Cu. As you might guess the Cu stands for Copper. Unlike the pervious
generation of the Dominator this one has a copper core that will
sit right on the CPU core for better cooling. So let’s see
how this inexpensive cooler holds up.
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