need help on hsf decision

[dinde]

i am going to run a 2100+ tbredB in my antec 1060amg or 660 (whichever i get). i will probably end up with an slk-800 or sk-7 depending on prices. i am going to do some mild voerclocking, but i dont want to do anything extreme. what fan would u suggest to go along with the rest of my fairly silent setup?

 

[WaTaGuMp]

IMHO opinion go with any fan you like and put a zalman fan mate on it. I run my 5600 rpm fan with one to tune it down for low noise, they work great and run about 7 bucks.

 

[dinde]

i would rather not have a manual control fan, maybe a thermal control? im not too crazy about that either, ust a nice fairly quiet fan =\

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Well thats your call then but how hard is it to turn a little knob and control your fans? Its pretty simple when it comes to HSF fans the faster they spin the more noise they will make. Now case fans are a different story you can go with some Panaflo fans that work well and are quiet.

 

[amcdonald]

I'd go with a manual fan over a temp sensor.
The sensor simply cannot be as smart as you.
Just play around with it until you find a good rpm that doesn't turn out an annoying frequency.
I have a smartfan2, and with the thermal temp it always did more work than necessary...
At load it ran at least 4200, and I run it at 3300-3400 keeping the same temp.

Personally if I were you I'd get the 800 and a quiet fan (panaflo or NMB) and leave it at that... that should keep you well under 50c and thats good enough for anyone. super quiet. If you are going to raise your vcore (which you will have to if seriously overclocking) you'll probably need something more powerful. This could be picked up later when if you decide to overclock higher.