Need suggestion on CPU heatsink and fan

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kater1

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I am wanting to replace my heatsink/fan setup to a better one with less noice. At present I am using a TR2TT TR2-M12 80 x 80 x 25 mm Ball Cooling Fan from NewEgg.com.

What would be a good replacement. I would like less noise and better cooling.

Or would I be better off to replace the 80mm fan on the heatsink with a 120mm and adaptor plate. Slower speed with same amount of airflow= less noice?

I have a 120mm fan in back of case. And a 80mm fan in the side of the case blowing into CPU.

Thansk

Bill

I am running a Asus P4P800-E Deluxe with a 3.2 chip. 2x512 memory
 
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GalvanizedYankee

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You post no board type.

This should fit any mobo and is the current best bang for the buck.
Thermalright's XP-90, it's nickel plated aluminum. Jab-Tech.com $27.95, no tax,realistic shipping. This HS is light and has an easy simple mounting system.

This HS comes w/o a fan. Put atleast 40cfm of 92mmx25mm on it or a medium speed Panaflo @ 48cfm. This set-up will cool very well and will be very quiet. It will also serve your next build, if that is in your plan.

There is a sticky at the top of this page that has a list of reviews. Check it out.

Galvanized
 
JEDIYoda

JEDIYoda

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Originally posted by: drwngflies
I've good results with my Zalman CNPS7000B, but I don't OC very high. The Zalman CNPS 9500 LED has very good marks, even against water cooling.
Also, check here:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=37&threadid=1723066&enterthread=y
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Both solid heatsinks...
tr xp90 and the Zalman 9500...
just a quick note...
That review of the zalman 9500 by SPCR it appears in the long run was good for the Zalman 9500 alot of people in other forums weho are using describe the heatsink as being totally silent.....so go figure..:)

aka--Zalman Boy...with a XP120...hehee

 
BonzaiDuck

BonzaiDuck

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I wrote to the reviewer of the Tech Report article on the CNPS-9500.

Again, I'm not too impressed, and I extracted this quote:

"we couldn't even get a 3.6GHz Prescott to break 65C . . ."

What needs to be fleshed out are the case choices deployed in the Tech Report review, and somewhere, I'd like to see an analysis as to whether -- how and why -- sinking Mosfets and mobo components would depress the effective thermal power of a processor.

Again, my Prescott is running at 3.5 and external frequency of 250 Mhz. Whatever software I use, I can't get the load temperature to rise above 43C at a room ambient of 80F. A socket-478 processor should run hotter than an LGA775 processor.
 
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kwarkers

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The Thermaltake Sonic Tower CL-P0071 was rated on Tom's Hardware as being the best CPU heatsink without a fan! It ended up in the top three (i cant remember what place it got), this was agaist fans and all. You can put a 120mm fan on the side if u want. Only prob is if ur case is big enough, the heatsinks dimentions are 112 x 112 x150 mm and it weighs 692g (24.43oz). But its still pretty good at cooling, it does the job for me!
 
JEDIYoda

JEDIYoda

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Originally posted by: kwarkers
The Thermaltake Sonic Tower CL-P0071 was rated on Tom's Hardware as being the best CPU heatsink without a fan! It ended up in the top three (i cant remember what place it got), this was agaist fans and all. You can put a 120mm fan on the side if u want. Only prob is if ur case is big enough, the heatsinks dimentions are 112 x 112 x150 mm and it weighs 692g (24.43oz). But its still pretty good at cooling, it does the job for me!
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http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050607/index.html

here is the link to the review......
Notice they had no Scythe or Thermalright coolers in the review!!
Also I did not find the words best CPU heatsink without a fan....please show me....
Also notice some of the benchmarks the Sonic Tower could not be tested why?
because the CPU over heated in purely passive mode....

I have read on other sites the same things.......the Sonic Tower in reality is not a very good heatsdink passively speaking.
Also with a fan it is only marginally better.....

All in all except for the Big Tower this review was a review of heatsinks that would fall under the heading also rans......
Even the Zalman heatsinks albeit adequate the 7700 series all come up way short if you throw in the Thermalright XP Series as well as the SI...as well as the Scythe brand and then you have the Zalman9500 which was not out on the market when this review took place.

All in all a hohum review....

:)
 
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Shadowknight

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SPCR says the Ninja is still the best cooler for cooling to noise ratio. They have some of the better reviews on the net. I have one, and it cools quite well in passive mode next to a 120mm case fan spinning at 650rpm - 40/60 idle/load
 
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