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Cooling My Athlon

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Navior

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hey all


has anyone heard of coolmaster cpu fans? i'm upgrading my fan from the oem because i want to o/c and just in case, i have an athlon 1.4TB, and it gets up to bout 57 degrees... i have the choice of a coolmaster that will handle a 1900+xp a 1.2 duron or my cpu. and the second choice is a volcano, which is better? any sentiments on coolmaster? the coolmaster is like 12$ and the volcano is 55$.

thanks!
 
If you are going to oc your athlon, I wouldn't use either the coolermaster or the volcano. Get yourself a nice a AX-7 with a nice panaflo. Btw, what kind of Volcano costs $55? Oh, and the Volcano7 isn't so bad.
 



i heard the volcano 6 and 6+ suck, i can get those for about 13$, and i can get a volcano 7 for 23$, but the one i really want is the 7+ all copper heatsink and a 29,000 rpm fan!
 
Originally posted by: Navior
i heard the volcano 6 and 6+ suck, i can get those for about 13$, and i can get a volcano 7 for 23$, but the one i really want is the 7+ all copper heatsink and a 29,000 rpm fan!
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whooooa, that fan is wayyyy too fscking loud!
 


its a varible speed fan. my friend just got one and it runs a 5000rpm and keeps his un o/c 1700xp at 38 degrees, at 29,000 rpm it the 1700xp run at 25 degrees, that leaves considerable room for o/c!
 
your friend is full of @#$&

nobody makes a 29,000 rpm fan and i've never seen any CPU run at just 25 C unless it's watercooled.


 
naive, check thermaltake's website out...there's no CPU fan that spins at 29000 RPM, which is utterly and so plainly obvious that it makes me puke.

aside from that, any of those thermaltake HSFs will be better than that low-end coolermaster, which, i assume, is the same one they use for retail box CPUs...they cool quite adequately, even for mild overclocking, but if u're hardcore, go w/ something better.

the 6cu is ok, the 6cu+ is better but loud...the 7+ has a variable speed (manual) 7cm fan...it's quite good, even for overclocking - and u won't spend a fortune on the god damned thing...

my 1800+ w/ stock fan runs at 45 celcius under load in the summer (but a basement)...overclocking it at stock voltage to 2000+ speeds didn't raise the temp too much...i'm sure your 1.4 t-bred would be safe w/ that cooler-master, especially since i doubt u'll get it much over 1400 anyway w/ a regular HSF unless u're bumping the voltage up hardcore.
 
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