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Hard time choosing a heatsink

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I am having a hard time choosing a heatsink.. i mean its the freaking hardest thing of all.. so i dont skrew up... because my previous system was freezing because of overheating...

Im getting an ABIT KR7A-Raid-133 and i have an AMD ATHLON XP 1900+ processor... i dont know what heatsink to get that is quiet, but still i want it to have good air flows... i picked a ThermalTake Volcano 7+ but then my cousin said it was big.. and i dont like the little thing where you have to change switches to have to change fan speed.. then i went to Thermal Integration's TI-VV7L which is 33CFM and 34DB noise level.. but then i found the ThermalTake 7 and it was better than previous with 2900 rpm at 25°C~
5000 rpm at 35°C ... 46 CFM at 2900rpm 53 CFM at 5000rpm ... and 27 dB at 2900 rpm 39 dB at 5000 rpm and i liked it's statistics.. because it has good AIRFLOW and very quiet...28dB is room noise, so yes its almost all quiet... but then i heard the Volcano 7 does not cool that good when i was set on buying it.. iam havingthe hardest time choosing a heatsink after i chose all the stuff... HELLLLLPPP!!!!!
 
Put a panaflo on that Alpha and it will cool better and be quieter than the Volcano 7. Or, you could mod a Volcano 7 with this tutorial.
 
thats 40-60mm fans... the pal8045 supports a 80mm fan..which is better.. i dont think panflo makes 80mm fans do they.. i saw only 120 mm
 
actually i found it... 39.6 cfm is highest it goes..any 80mm papst fans that go to like 40+?? they are quiet and good cooling.... buy panflo is 39.6CFM and 32DB... is that sufficient enought for a xp 1900+ and maybe overclocked.... i was a nice panoflo 120mm fan that was like 63CFM and only 30DB.. i wish i could put that on hehee.. where is a stronger panflo fan..
 
People have overclocked the crap out of there CPUs using the Alpha/Panaflo combos. Although, I wouldn't expect much when it comes to overclocking on that 1900+. They are plenty fast enough as they are anyway. If you really want to use a 120mm fan, then you can get an adapter here.
 
where can i get the alpha and panoflo for cheap.. plycon is out of stock on panoflo's and alpha 8045 are like $40 arent they... by the way.. will it fit on an Abit KR7A-Raid-133
 
Confirm that all the hardware is compliant and best that could be

Abit KR7A-Raid-133 VIA KT266A Chipset ATX Motherboard ($140)
Alpha PAL 8045T Heatsink w/ Panoflo 80mm H1A ($36+$12)
512MB Corsair DDR PC2100 Ram ($168)
Sony Floppy Drive ($9)
Enermax CS-003-01WB Case ($65)
Linksys Network Card ($15)
MAXTOR Quiet Drive 80GB 7200RPM ATA133/100 ($137)
Geforce 3 TI 500 (ALREADY HAVE)
SBLive 5.1 X-Gamer (ALREADY HAVE)
Lite-On DVD 16x/48x (ALREADY HAVE)
Mitsumi 16x/8x/40x CD-RW (ALREADY HAVE)

Anyone Disagree with the hardware or with the price, please let me know, would really appreciate if you knew where to get cheaper is my price is too high or disagree with hardware assembly, let me know even if its all good.. i want your opionion!!!
 
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