Question 1

Does this come with a fan and heat sink?

Accepted Answer

Yes, it does come with a heat sink and fan ... very good ones I will say as well. I've had this processor running at 3.33 GHz since the day I received it from Newegg, along with running it at maximum power profile for several hours at a time while doing graphics work and gaming. It's ran cool the entire time. I don't recommend relying on the thermal paste that comes with the unit ... but that's just me. I purchased a tube of high quality paste along with this processor and used it instead. I would also like to note that the fan and heat sink units AMD ship with their newer products are far better than the generic ones they used to supply; these days, in my opinion, the supplied units are just fine for most situations. However, as always, if you do a lot of massive overclocking, I'd recommend (always) a different cooling solution. Other than that, the supplied unit will satisfy most needs just fine.

Question 2

Will this work on an older motherboard its around 3 to 4 years old.Its a GigaByte GA-Ma790X-UD4P.
It only says support AM3/AM2 +/Am2 processors.?

Accepted Answer

No. An AM3+ processor will not work in an AM3 board.

An AM3 processor will work in an AM3+ board.. but not the other way around.

Question 3

I'm building a computer for gaming, mostly to play DayZ, Do i really need an 8 core processor or can i go with something else?

Accepted Answer

8 cores won't hurt, but if you wanted to save money the 6-core processors will probably offer similar performance for games. If you plan on doing other things while playing,  like streaming YouTube on a second monitor or running a game server, then the extra cores will help out.  Most of the parallel processing that is required by games tends to be offloaded to the GPUs.

Question 4

What after market heat-sink are compatible with this CPU? I have a Biostar A960A3+ motherboard in a mid-tower. I am concerned that some upright heat-sink and fan may inter with the memory modals  (some 4" or more wide) near by and/or other components.

Accepted Answer

You have to be careful. Some of the upright coolers will not fit. Depends on the layout of MB. The stock cooler has worked great for me but I do not overclock. Another thing that will help is good wire management. I Have 3 hard drives but I keep them in lower slots and have all wires inside my case zip tied to the inside edges of my case so I get max air flow. Try and keep the inside of your case as open as possible and you should be fine w stock

Question 5

Do you have any motherboard that support memory more than 32gb? Any motherboard that works with this cpu that support 64gb or over like max at 128GB?

Accepted Answer

Unfortunately I do not have a motherboard that can support above 32 gigs of RAM. Mine actually only supports 16 gigs of ram, but i plan on upgrading the board soon. It is an MSI 760GMA-P34.  Sorry i couldn't be of more help.

Question 6

What is the exact watt, amp & voltage input & output?

Accepted Answer

Well I'm not entirely sure while playing games and doing tasks, but mine right now as it sits idle, is pulling about 1.2v

Why exactly do you need this info?
Let me know if your doing a build and I can help you further

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