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Do I need the loud Delta for Tbird @ 1.6 Ghz?

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VBboy

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I still can't figure out if there is a relatively quiet cooler (other than Silverado) that will allow me to reach 1.6 Ghz WITHOUT the terrible noise of the Delta...

If you are running 1.6 Ghz with a somewhat quiet cooling fan, please respond!
 
Maybe the big Taisol with copper in the base. (cgk760... don't remember the name) Is it pretested at 1.6ghz, or that's what you're planning to reach?
 
I re-did my entire primary system recently from a multi-fan "screamer" to a much more quiet setup. For a long time, the noise of the 60mm & 80mm HO Deltas and 120mm Papst HO intake/blowholes did not bother me much as long as I ran fast and stable. After awhile, the noise started to bother me more and more. I tried many possible solutions, including a Koolance watercooled case. The Koolance works well for me up to 1400MHz, but I knew my primary 1200 AXIA T-Bird could do more, and I ended up not being satisfied with 1400MHz.

Anyway, I upgraded to the EPoX 8K7A+ recently, and was able to up my core voltage to 2.0V without modding the board, and have been looping UT, Q3A, running Prime95, etc..without any crashes at 1575MHz. I knew my MC-462/80mm Delta HO could handle the heat, but as I said, I wanted quiet, and not having the hassle of removing the mobo to change HSs if I wanted. I purchased an Akasa Silver Mountain HSF (a silver coated copper HedgeHog with a better clip) that came stock with a 60mm Delta installed blowing down, even though the HS has a shroud. In my experience, I have always found that shrouded HSs work better with the air pulling from the bottom (sucking) than blowing down on the HS.

I have already looked into 60 to 80MM fan adapters before, and purchased one of the expensive metal Japanese models from Plycon. I also was very interested in the design/performance of the Panaflo FBL low noise ring cage fans. I purchased a few of the 80mm models, and found that they work well, and are pretty quiet.

I have my new case setup with 92mm very quiet Sunon fans. (2 front intake, 1 top blow hole, and one rear exhaust.) My Enermax PS also has a quiet bottom intake fan and rear exhaust.

To make this long post shorter, 🙂 with the 80mm adapter on the Silver Mountain, and the Panaflo FBL set to suck air, it exhausts air from the ring cage (see link about the fan) up through the Enermax, and also right out of the rear case exhaust fan. I was quite surprised to reach a stable 1575MHz on a processor that would top out at 1500 1.85V before. I was in a hurry to get my new rig up and running, and did not install my Digital Doc5 temp probe to the core, but at 1575/2.0V Sandra Pro is reporting 46.9 Cel. right after a heavy load of looping games & Prime95. Even if the temps are 10 degrees higher than the inaccurate in socket mobo probe reports, 56.9 Cel. under load at that speed and voltage is not bad. 😉

My whole system is much, much, more quiet than before. I can hear my hard drives, and my window unit AC is louder than my rig now, when before, my system with the Deltas and 120mm fans drowned it out. No freeze ups or crashes, no matter what I run. I even ran back to back Content Creation Winstone 2000 for awhile. I am impressed with the performance/CFM/noise level of the Panaflo FBL & adapter teamed with the Silver Mountain. I am sure a HedgeHog with the same setup and less expensive adapter (I have an acrylic case and like the "professional look" of the Japanese model) would produce similar results. There are other HSFs out there with better performance, but most have to have HO/high RPM loud fans to make them effective.

EDIT: Added links/content
 
Technonut,

That is a wonderful story 🙂
In my case, I don't want to try out different cooling devices.. I just want to build my PC, overclock the 1.33 Athlon to 1.6 or so, and be happy 🙂

Wtf happened to good stock cooling solutions? My Celeron and P3 both overclocked great with the "default" heat sink / cooling fan..

It freakin sucks that people have to build their own cooling devices!!
 
To all who asked, when I said "1.6 Ghz Athlon" I meant a 1.33 Ghz Athlon overclocked to 1.6 (I don't actually have the CPU yet, so it's a somewhat hypothetical yet important question).
 
You could always go watercooling. Throw in a peltier, than what do you get? A system that runs super cool, and costs more than you want to spend I'm guessing.
 

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You could always go watercooling. Throw in a peltier, than what do you get?
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Can I do just the peltier, or is it somehow related to water cooling? How much is one of them peltiers things? I even started considering the expensive Silverado, but the shipping time is 2-4 weeks 🙁
 
well i have mine at 1600mhz and have a thermalright sk-6 hs and the loud ...lol...delta fan...but i am also running default voltage...so proly will depend on your cpu
 
Can I take 2 quiet fans and stack them up on a heatsink? That will be quieter than the Delta.. Will that give me 2x (or almost) the cooling performance of such single fan?
 


<< Can I take 2 quiet fans and stack them up on a heatsink? That will be quieter than the Delta.. Will that give me 2x (or almost) the cooling performance of such single fan? >>


No, it really is not effective. I have seen a couple of posts where someone installed a larger fan grill on a HS, then attached a quiet, larger, high CFM fan onto that. It would be a very inexpensive adapter.
 
Vboy just get a Glaciator I can run my cpu at 1617mhz pumping 2.14volts and heat is not a problem.
And the Glaciator is much less noise then the Delta fan.
 
Fellow overclockers, check this out.

What if I make a round hole in the side of the PC case and slide a tube in it which will have 2 cooling fans, one on each end? And that thing will blow right at the CPU. This way, it will be bringing a very directed airflow from outside, supplying it to the CPU cooler itself.

Will that work? Kinda like this

Case wall
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@ --> air --> @ #CPU
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I run my TBird @ 1.6Ghz with an SK6, AS2 and a 27CFM YSTech fan. Have used as high as 1.97V and it was fine, didn't top 53C.
 
Some people modify their voltage regulator by adding resisters to get a higher voltage, but in my case when I set my board to 1.85V it just gives higher. I have to set it to 1.625V or so to get default!
 
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