Need cooling help/suggestions!

[knucklebone04]

I have an XP Mobile 2600+ and an Abit NF7-S mobo. My case has 7 fans. I need to know what fan/heatsink to buy for my CPU so that I can do some moderate overclocking without burning stuff up. I do not want to spend a fortune, I am on a budget.

Thanks in advance.

 

[magratton]

Depending on budget I would recommend either of the following: Speeze Falconrock or Thermalright SLK947u. The later is definitely a cadillac air cooling solution. Personally in a similar setup I have the 947u and a Vantec Tornado 92mm on top. I would however recommend the Vantec Stealth instead next time. The Tornado is downright loud! For some systems I am building for friends I am going to be using the Speeze Falconrock unit with a AXP2600M so I will let you know how it works out.

Edit: Also, what you using now? Since they are OEM I assume you have something on it. You can try setting the vcore in the bios to 1.65 and let it idle then use pc health monitor in bios to see how it is handling the heat. 1.65v is considered to be very safe for this processor. At that voltage you should be able to get 200x12(or even 13) if not higher fsb and still be running well within safe parameters of the cpu.

 

[ku]

I have the Speeze falconrock and it was awesome for the first couple of days. As you can see in my signature, I have the same setup (not NF7-S though) and I got about 40C full load, 33C idle with 20C case temp. I moved and this house is hot, so I'm getting 26C case temp w/ 45C idle. When I keep the cpu under load for a while, like after a while of gaming, the case temp jumps up to 29C but cpu is around 49C... kinda weird and i'd say something is wrong with my sensors =P. Anyway, this is an awesome heatsink for 10 bucks... =D

PS: I'm running 1.575 voltage (~1.53 on hardware monitor *sadface*) and not the default 1.45