Question 1

Does it come with a fan?

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Dear Customer,
   To be honest, it completely depends on the model you buy. This particular model that you are looking at DOES indeed come with a fan and heatsink. The fan is rated at a variable rate from 1800-5500 rpm, pre-mounted to push air (vs pull or push-pull) on the top of the heatsink, and I have personally measured it to push a max of about 60-70 cfm depending on the air temperature. It maintains a fair static pressure in the heatsink as well, but there are better fans that can be mounted. Overall, it is similar in size and shape to the CoolerMaster 212, but can be noiser than an aftermarket due to the small size of the fan. I found that an aftermarket heatsink is not needed, but I personally would recommend one if you plan to do any overclocking. One of the easiest ways to tell if a processor has a fan is the box size, with the wide boxes coming with a fan and heatsink and skinny boxes being the processor. Most CPU's nowadays come with a fan, but this is not always the case. Paul has a great video explaining this on NewEgg TV, and you can see the difference in box size. I hope this has thoroughly  answered your question, and that this processor is everything you want it to be. I very highly recommend this product, and the ASUS Sabertooth R. 2.0 MB to get the full power potential from this chip. Happy hunting!
From one customer to another-once you know, you NewEgg!

Question 2

does it have a heat sink with it?.

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Yes, it comes with a stock cooler with thermal paste already applied to the cooler. I would recommend purchasing an aftermarket cooler for better cooling performance.

Question 3

Is this CPU with a cooler?

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Yes, But I suggest getting XIGMATEK Dark Knight II SD1283 Night Hawk Edition. It keeps under 30 degrees Celsius at all times!

Question 4

DOes it come with a thermal compound first time building a computer?

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Yes; and you can use it, it is applied to the heatsink - which the heat sink is kinda hard to snap into place, but nice.

I would suggest getting some Artic Silver-5..scrape other compound off with like..old credit card, wipe with alcohol, then apply pea size drop to center of the processor.  dont worry about smearing it around - will do more harm than good. Make sure to line up the triangles as well on the board and edge of processor.

Question 5

should I buy windows 7 64 bit of 32 bit?

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Yes absolutely get Win 64.

Win 32 will only permit you to use a paltry 4 G of RAM. The fact that you're on Newegg means that you are definitely going to be running programs that will benefit from much more 
RAM than that.

I have 32 Gig and when I am programming I assign 20G to my editor. This means more things can be held in memory, which means things happen very fast.

If I could find an AMD board that took 64G and wasn't a server board, I'd think about buying it (of course the price of RAM would have to come down also).

But the point is, holding your program's memory in RAM has huge practical benefits fro programs that use a lot of data.

Also, get an SSD I recommend Samsung's 840 EVO - good price, great performance. An SSD makes things much faster in the same way more RAM does.

On caveat is- it's virtually impossible to know you've erased data from asn SSD. It's a quirk of SSDs that they don't *really* erase things when you ask them to (they just mark the space as available) . So consider that anything that has ever touched your SSD is there *forever* and with enough effort could be located again,

Question 6

I'm new to building my own PC. Any recommendations for which motherboard to pair this with for a higher end gaming PC? Preferably something that can take dual 8GB ram.

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ASUS Sabertooth 990 FX runs great

Question 7

dose this Idem come whit a cooling fan? or do i need to buy one.

can you recommend one

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It does indeed! In fact, most of the contents of the box is a cooling fan, with the stock thermal paste already pre-applied. 
That being said, while I'm no expert, usually people recommend that you look into purchasing an aftermarket fan and/or thermal paste, because the stock ones usually are really low quality. Just something to keep in mind.

Question 8

is a fan included?

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Yes the fan comes stock with the Cpu but if you plan to overclock or do some heavy gaming such Battlefield 4 or Arma 3 i recomend to buy an aftermarket cooler,air or water cooler...
The cpu gets pretty hot during intense periods of gaming but you get one of the best Amd  and non Amd cpu for the price ...Pair it with a 7000 hd radeon graphic card and you set up with pretty much every game out there...

Question 9

Is the Heat-sink and fan any good, or should a invest in a good CPU Fan?

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Just built a computer for my wife with this. We nerve had the heatsink/ fan hooked up. I would invest in a good cooler.  We went with the corsair h100i and it.was fantastic. First time I've done liquid cooling. I would just say if you're going to.build an amazing computer it deserves the investment of an amazing cooler.

Question 10

The motherboard I am considering purchasing has an AM3+ socket, but under "CPU Power Connector" it says it is 8-pin. Are these two compatible? For reference, here is the mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131851

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I have the M% board and cannnot OC by more than 8% from the base. When I bought it I didn'tr understand the diff between 12+2 and 6+4. the thing about the ASRock 990FX Extreme9 AM3+ board is , and this is according to reviewers, it DOES NOT have USB 3 capabilities (!!!!), so if your case has two blue USB 3 in the front, you won't find anywhere on the MB to hook them up.

I think the best board is the crossfire. My advice is if it's at all possible scrounge up the money to get it. Sacrifice a little from something else in your build (graphics card say...)

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