Air vs Standard stock cooling (cpu)

[zakaron]

Hoping to get clarification on how I should categorize my cpu cooler. I have an older Sempron 64 on a 754 socket that I'd like to build up again and run a few benchmarks, but found a nice Opteron heatsink & fan in my stash that has a copper base and dual copper heat pipes. It is much nicer than the original Sempron aluminum block. So with it still being an OEM AMD heatsink & fan, does it fall under Standard Stock cooling, or since it is not original to the Sempron, does it then get put into Air Cooling?

 

Thanks!

[Mr.Scott]

Doesn't matter.

Any kind of air cooling is classed the same anyways. It will make no difference how you list it.

[knopflerbruce]

I would say "stock cooling" means the same cooler that comes with the CPU, so it should - strictly speaking - be classified as "air cooling" if you use a heatpipe cooler on the older K( cpus that came with alu sinks. However, as Mr. Scott said, it really doesn't matter. Perhaps we could even merge the two.

[zakaron]

Thanks guys! I appreciate the responses. To be fair, I will use air cooling in the classification. That way people using the search option for stock cooling will not be misled.