Best cooler for socket A t-birds?

[fkloster]

What would be the finest, short of liquid cooling, cooler available to date for a 1.2 gig socket A OEM t-bird. Links would be appreciated.

 

[Harrisment]

Alpha PAL 6035

Got mine at Inflow Direct

 

[Futuramatic]

Iam not trying to bait you fkloster, but are you thinking about hopping off the Intel train (or at least taking a short ride on AMD's)?

 

[loogie]

The fop38s are the best. The noise might be annoying though. The best quiet ones would be the arctic cooler and taisol.

link

 

[Tetsuo316]

i like the taisol CEK734092 myself. that's the link to the store. they also have a link to the .pdf file descibing it here.. i of course got this information from the AMD approved list.

 

[medic]

How about a 1.5G. certified dual fan SuperOrb???

Marty supplied this link a few weeks ago and hopefully it's out already...

Here:

 

[Odin30]

pal 6035 no doubt.
Have had taisol and took it off.
Pal keeps me between 29 and 44 degrees on a t-bird 750 overclocked to a gig.

 

[fkloster]

+/- $500 bone 1.2 GHrz CPU's have dulled my Intel zealotry's edge. What about this chip crushing thingy? Falacy or Fact? How does one not smash these puppies & get a great seal?

 

[Futuramatic]

fkloster-

I think the crushing thing is due to using the WRONG heatsink. I have seen crushed AMD chips... not pretty. I would be very careful and ask alot of questions (like you are doing here) before selecting anything but the AMD HS/F for cooling. Not to talk down to you or anything... that is jsut how it came out

 

[Tetsuo316]

the new chips that we mentioned are made specifically for socket a chips and will not crush them if properly installed. definitely grab a cooler from the amd approved list just to be safe.

 

[fkloster]

Kind of a 'Catch-22' really, I mean you want a really, really tight fit with grease but I guess too tight and Boom! back to the poor house heh?

 

[AMB]

The Tai Sol, I know, cools to 1.2GHz, it works well with my 900Mhz, not sure what would happen at 1.2 GHz though

 

[Muerto]

I've got an Alpha PAL6035 HSF on my CPU. By far the best HSF combo you can get for socket A. My CPU always runs at less than 50 C. A 1.2 GHz T-Bird would be a lot hotter obviously but I think the Alpha would still do a fine job. Hope this helps!

 

[CigarSmokedByClinton]

Muerto: I was wondering, if you only overclocked your duron to 800, and you get 50 degrees celcius, how can you feel happy with your hs/f? I have a stock hs'f on my duron 600@1060 and the highest I've seen it is at 54 degrees Celcius. Is it just that you haven't tried to overclock it more?

yeah, I'm pretty happy with my cooler, but I just can't help but think that I could get up to 1.1 Ghz with a better hs/f. There is one catch, though, I want it to be quiet. The one I have now sounds like I have a harrier taking off in my box. the fan is running at 6500rpm. Which hs/f do you guys recoomend that is better and quiet(er). Thanks

 

[Skooch]

Not sure about the 1.2 gig T-bird, but my retail 900 T-bird came with a Taisol 34092 H/S fan which keeps the idle at 46C, 48C-49C under load.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

I heard very good thigs about the taisol witch is cheap and very good(or so I heard)