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GlobalWin WBK38 w/28cfm fan better than super orb?

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Tummy

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Hi guys. I'm looking for the best socket A cooler for my AMD T-bird. It's overheating when I clock it too high... right now I've got a SuperOrb on it and it runs 1.2Ghz around 46C or so, default voltage. If I bump the voltage I can post and boot higher but it'll crap out when it hits around 46-47C. I would like better cooling, obviously, and I know the FOP38/WBK38 are by far the best right now but I am not fond about the idea of the noise. So, I am curious - will a WBK with the quieter 28cfm fan perform better than the SuperOrb I've currently got, and, if so, by how much?

I suppose another option would be to simply use a bigger fan with lower rpm's but the same cfm's to get the same power as the fop 38, which is of course another possibility.

Any comments/recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks fellas!
 
Yes.

Especially considering that the Super-orb performance is below hte taisol CEk733092(aka the T-bird Retail Sink).



Mike
 
Thanks guys. Do you have any idea roughly how much better it would be? My processor hits about 48C @ 1200 and then promptly dies... at 47 it seems to be no problem. I'll probably pick one up anyway but was hoping for an idea of how much better it'd be...
 
Just received my WBK38 last night, didnt have too much time to play but Im running my 1gig at 1.2 in an MSI K7T Turbo-R and just dinking around in bios settings and array creation it was at 49C. Thought I'd let you know.. Additionally, this thing is FRICKEN LOUD! I am using the included GlobalWin fan, is there a suggested quieter one?
 
RBuck
if u have it @49c then it is super got

cause my 1ghz is 38c and when i get it to 1.2ghz it is only 43c

what thermal compound did u use
 
Taisol makes a really good heatsink-I've seen reviews where it beat the FOP38 when both HS used the same fan. I know I've seen such a comparison at overclockers.com, and I'm pretty sure Anandtech did that too. Thermaltake's new square cooler, the VolcanoII, cools a little better than the super-orb, and is quieter and cheaper to boot-it's funny, but Anadtech and Tom's seem to be the only review sites that haven't mentioned the Volcano.
Global Win's new WBK is interesting, I've seen some reviews where it was better than the FOP , and some where it wasn't quite as good. Reviews of HSF are often inconsistent like that, but EVERYONE agrees that the orbs look better than they work, and that the Super Orb is NOISY, but not quite as noisy as the FOP38. There's a new cooler called the Silverado(it's partly made of silver) that's both very good at cooling and very quiet, but it's EXPENSIVE, and I think it's also very overweight(I've seen bitching that water-cooling would be cheaper). Air-cooling pretty much reqires a lot of radiating-area, hence weight, and a lot of moving air, which is difficult to do without a noisy fan
BTW, I was referring to the big Taisol CGK742092, not the littler one that Mikewarrior2 mentioned.
 
Bonkers325: I have Arctic Silver II compound, but I didn't use it. I have been hearing mixed reviews on grease and compound, supposedly the pad provided on the bottom of the heatsink is better? (at least according to AMD)

Got Win2K installed last night and MBMonitor was reporting a cpu temp of 45C. Did some hard core fragging for about 3 hours and it was 48C. Should I try the Arctic Silver II compound? And if so, should I peel off the pad on the bottom of the wbk38?
 
EVERY review I've seen that tested thermal grease against thermal pads showed that the pad was inferior.
 
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