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Quality cooler for overclocking barton
Would appreciate if someone can recommend me a quality cooler for
overclocking barton 2500+. I don't find the noise level as important as the cooling capabilities, as long as it's within acceptable levels. Thanks in advance. |
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one word (swiftech) pick what fan you want 80 or 92mm
"Jason Fox" wrote in message om... Would appreciate if someone can recommend me a quality cooler for overclocking barton 2500+. I don't find the noise level as important as the cooling capabilities, as long as it's within acceptable levels. Thanks in advance. |
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"Simon Powell" wrote one word (swiftech) pick what fan you want 80 or 92mm Hi, I was thinking of getting a Swiftech HSF but all the people I speak to say go with the Thermalright SP-94 (or SP-97 for AMD). To the O.P, You could start at something like a CoolerMaster Aero 7 LITE, and go all the way up to a Thermalright or Swiftech heatsink, in fact you could spend more money on your cooling than you did on your CPU! -- Wayne ][ Sign on door reads: Please Do No Disturb! Pentium 4 assembly in progress! |
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check out zalman 7000 all copper, will void your motherboard warrenty
but it cools great and is very quit, my abit chipset fan makes more noise Simon Powell wrote: one word (swiftech) pick what fan you want 80 or 92mm "Jason Fox" wrote in message om... Would appreciate if someone can recommend me a quality cooler for overclocking barton 2500+. I don't find the noise level as important as the cooling capabilities, as long as it's within acceptable levels. Thanks in advance. |
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kony wrote:
On 26 Mar 2004 05:40:05 -0800, (Jason Fox) wrote: Would appreciate if someone can recommend me a quality cooler for overclocking barton 2500+. I don't find the noise level as important as the cooling capabilities, as long as it's within acceptable levels. Thanks in advance. Well since you don't care if it's loud, just pick anything with a exceptionally high-CFM fan on it, but at least with a copper baseplate if not all copper. Then again, "within acceptable levels" doesn't tell us a whole lot... for example some people think Intel's retail 'sinks are quiet but I find them annoyingly whiney. The key thing is budget. For each addt'l $ you can get a little better up to a point, also depending on how much searching for a good deal you're willing to do. For a moderately good cooler you might consider the Thermaltake Silent boost, though as it's named, "Silent" is it's strong point. For the best cooling at moderately reasonable prices you migth look for sales on Thermalright's line, SLK-800, 900, 947, SP97, etc., then buy the 3rd party fan you want for it. All good points. Some people like the swiftechs but the current generation of thermalrights, SLK-800 and up, win in every heatsink review I've seen. Looking at the price breaks (from pricewatch), the low end SLK700 comes in at $24 (without fan, as is usual for thermalright heatsinks) and is a good compromise between cost, performance, and noise ('desktop' 38dba levels with the YS TECH 36CFM TMD fan, what thermalright rates it with). The next jump is to the SLK-800, at $36, through the SLK-900-A/U at $38 so one might as well get the 900 for 2 more bucks, if no clearance problems. The SLK947U is an additional 8 bucks but is only the 4 leg mount. The top of the line is the SP-94, with heatpipes, and the price jumps to $52. These things, like all of the 'super' coolers, are rated and reviewed with what most people find to be outrageously noisy fans, 55dba on the SLK900, but the high performance of the heatsink means one can use a more 'reasonable' fan and get excellent cooling. By comparison, I'm using the now discontinued Thermalright AX7 with a Sunon 50.6CFM 80mm fan rated at 40 dba on my XP mobile 2400 overclocked to 2.4 gig with 1.825 Vcore. Using the 'maximum' thermal rating of the XP at stock speeds, then extrapolating from the increased Vcore and clock, that comes to an estimated worst case power dissipation of about 100watts (if one figures 'typical' that would be more like 80 watts) and that AX7/Sunon combo is keeping it under 50C with a 27C ambient and 6C case rise (yes, I could do better but I like to be able to hear things other than case whoosh). The SLK-800/900 series should do a bit better. Thermalright is odd, compared to the rest, in their ratings. For example, they say XP2800+, and up, for the SP-97 and then say in their FAQ that, yes, you can use it with an XP3200 because it "can handle 120W of thermal dissipation energy with ease." ("ease" is the key word.) I mean, their ratings are more like 'why the heck would you use it on something LESS than this speed?' rather than 'we tested it up to here and it stayed within AMD's maximum temperature spec'. |
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