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Best Cooling for Athlon XP (Barton) 2800+

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PrayForDeath

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What's the best fan+HSF for a 2800+ Barton? I want the coolest fan and I don't care about noise. I was thinking of one of the large Zalmans. Do you recommend any other fan? And do you recommend buying it online or retail since it's a small piece?
Thanks
 
Thermalright makes the best coolers.. XP90 with a high throw 92x32mm fan is the way to go... it's basically poor mans water cooling.
 
The XP-90 isn't listed as Socket A compatible, and the OP says he has a Barton, so that won't work. The SI-97, however, does work with Socket A (quite nicely, I might add). It's very similar to the XP-90, and does a great job of cooling my Barton 3200+. That and a nice big fan should do very well.
 
Originally posted by: Trippytiger
The XP-90 isn't listed as Socket A compatible, and the OP says he has a Barton, so that won't work. The SI-97, however, does work with Socket A (quite nicely, I might add). It's very similar to the XP-90, and does a great job of cooling my Barton 3200+. That and a nice big fan should do very well.
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😱 Good catch 🙂
 
Heh, they look so similar, it's no wonder the two can get confused. The only reason I remember is because I have an SI-97!
 
Originally posted by: PrayForDeath
What's the best fan+HSF for a 2800+ Barton? I want the coolest fan and I don't care about noise. I was thinking of one of the large Zalmans. Do you recommend any other fan? And do you recommend buying it online or retail since it's a small piece?
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I really hate the word "best", because that is too subjective. "Most efficient", however, without regard to noise, that I can deal with. The Zalman design, other than the original opened flower shape, is much too large around the base for a large percentage of motherboard designs, so that makes recommending it a problem! I think that the heat sinks that look the most like the XP-90's, but should fit onto an XP cpu, are the SLK's -- however the '-97 gets good marks for its efficiency.

So far, none of my PC's has required a heat sink so large as the ones being discussed (I've not really PUSHED any OC options -- rather just buy the faster cpu's in the first place).


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I am actually looking for something much cheaper than that, I mean I don't wanna buy seperate heatsink and fan (too expensive). But I am wondering, is it good to add the stock fan to a SI-97? I think that would work for me, and a cheaper solution would be even better.
Thanks for the answers
 
Originally posted by: Trippytiger
The XP-90 isn't listed as Socket A compatible, and the OP says he has a Barton, so that won't work. The SI-97, however, does work with Socket A (quite nicely, I might add). It's very similar to the XP-90, and does a great job of cooling my Barton 3200+. That and a nice big fan should do very well.
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LOL and I knew that too... whole reason I went with Zalman
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1603629&enterthread=y


Don't get old
 
Not so long ago, I had a PC in an uncontrolled (tempwise) garage area in which I saw it was doing poorly. Most of its problem finally traced back to an Enlight psu that couldn't handle the heat out there. In the meanwhile, I was looking at "large" heat sink devices. It seems to me that there were some motherboards for which the XP-90 could be used to cool a Socket A cpu, but like the round Zalmans, it was a case of tight quarters.

The Original Messager is asking about using a stock fan (typically a 60-70 mm fan) on a heat sink like the ones discussed, but my recollection of the data I went over before finally just leaving the side panel off that particular PC, and swapping in a Thermaltake psu, was that 80 mm is the minimum size, and 90/92 mm the popular choice.

(Added this in an edit: new retail-boxed heat sinks *DO* come with either a thermal "pad" already in place, or a squeeze applicator of thermal compound.)

Anyway, I run into this more and more often -- (remind yourself to stop growing older before this starts to happen to you!) I've forgotten why the "97" heat sink has two different prefixes. SP and SI -- both of which apply to the same heat-pipe type cooler -- so was it a name change, or is it like the two XP-90's - different metal compositions?

😱
 
Originally posted by: PrayForDeath
Another question is do coolers come with thermal compound? Or do I have to buy it serperately?
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I had my SLK900-A shipped over to the UK along with some Panaflo fans almost 18 months ago from Sidewinder Computers.

I purchased some AS5 along with it because AS5 was cheaper in the US than the UK and added 3.5 grams to a package isnt much extra delivery charge.

I actually got the free squeeze of rather generic paste, a free little sachet of AS Alumina I believe it, was enough for 1 application and the AS 5 I paid for.
 
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