New to the fourm, Looking for advice from the Experts on cost effective cooling.

[joe4324]

Hey guys, I've been a long time anandtechian but never really knew these fourms existed untill recently. Hopefully you will forgive my ignorance as I havent had a chance to pour through the last few days of postings to try to answer my own questions but I'm at work and its a monday so time isnt being to friendly to me as far as time so I just wanted to post my situation and hope for some feedback.


Ok enough crap, I just recently made some system upgrades and this is my situation.

Avg room temp, 75-85 degrees

Stock Tornado case w/out Side case fans 300WattPicture
Asus A7A266
1.33mhz 266fsb t-bird, Non-oc (with a cheap $9 cpu fan <---need work on this)
256 Crucial cas2 pc133
Asus geforce2 GTS pure
Sblive Platnium w/live drive installed
30GB ata100 Maxtor Diamondmax plus
40GB ata66 Maxtor Diamondmax plus
Sony 8x4x32
Asus 50x
PCI modem/Nic

My problem is that this new setup is a heat monster, that 1.33 chip is HOT, I cant even put the sides of my case back on without locking in about 10 minutes. I've been doing a little research and I'm begining to realize I really dont know a whole lot about cooling, I'm still in the &quot;wow that looks big it must cool good&quot; phase and really need to play some catch up. I am very curious to know how you would go about cooling this rig, I'd like to start with a good cpu heatsink. I'm thinking that I need to get a couple case fans and mount them blowing air onto the cpu/video card from the side, but as I said I dont really know what is most effective,

keeping costs reasonable what would get the most bang for my buck for cooling this rig?



thanks in advanced!

joe

 

[Muerto]

&quot;I cant even put the sides of my case back on without locking in about 10 minutes. &quot;

If that's the case then you have a MAJOR heat problem.



For the heatsink and fan I'd suggest any one of the following:

Alpha PAL6035
Alpha PEP66 (this will require modification to fit on your board)
TaiSol CGK760092
GlobalWin FOP32-1
GlobalWin CAK38

You'll be looking at around $30 for most of them. And make sure you get some good thermal compound like Arctic Silver II. As for case fans I'd go with Panaflo fans. They give the best combination of noise and airflow.

You can buy all this stuff here and here. Hope this helps. 🙂

EDIT: For more info talk to Mikewarrior2, our resident cooling expert.

 

[joe4324]

Actually I've been looking at the Global winfop32 for a heatsink it appears to be pretty inexpensive and doesnt seemed to be slammed by any of the review sites I've been too I might be purchasing one today.

thanks!