arctic-cooling CPU Heat Sinks?

[gate1975mlm]

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/cpu1.php?p=3&disc=

Ok I know most everyone here likes the zalman XP-90 or XP-120 for the AMD Athlon 64 CPU's. But I want a Silent Heat Sink with out the need for a FanMate. I was thinking about getting the Thermaltake A1838 for AMD Opteron/Athlon64 http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant...=PROD&Store_Code=M&Product_Code=130129 But I have heard that it is not really very Silent. So I am looking for a VERY Silent well cooling Heat Sink that does not come with a FAN Mate. I will be using it for a Athlon 64 3700+ SSE3 CPU!

Have any of you used the arctic-cooling Heat Sinks?

 

[TheStu]

It is the Thermalright XP-90 and XP-120.... Zalman makes the 7000 alcu, 7000 cu and the 7700 alcu and 7700 cu

For the money and noise levels the best you can get is either the Zalman 7700 cu (120mm fan, and all copper heatsink) or the XP-120 with a quiet fan. Both heatsinks are so large that they don't need that much airflow to keep them at reasonable temps and thusly keeping the noise down. From what I have heard though, the XP-120 is not compatible with all motherboards due to its size.

 

[AwesomeJay]

i have the silencer 64 ultra

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/cpu2.php?idx=30&disc=

i have it on my athlon 64 3000+ and its pretty quiet. the chipset fan on my msi k8n neo 2 is louder then the silencer 64 ultra

 

[MDE]

What's wrong with the Zalman FanMate? Most Athlon 64 motherboards can adjust the CPU fan speed automatically, especially when you enable Cool n Quiet.

 

[gate1975mlm]

I don't want the FanMate sticking out of my PC Case.

 

[TheStu]

it doesn't have to... my friends fanmate doesnt even affect (noticably) the speeda nyway so he has it plugged directly into the header on his motherboard... yo can do that

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: gate1975mlm
I don't want the FanMate sticking out of my PC Case.

It doesn't stick out at all. You plug the fan into it and the Fan Mate into the motherboard. It's about the size of my thumb.

 

[charlietee]

Really the ThermalRight XP120 with a 120m/m fan is about as good as it gets.