Hi,
I've got an Athlon Thunderbird 1.33 GHz Socket A processor cooled by a Swiftech MC370 heatsink/fan on an Asus A7M266 motherboard. I've been running this setup for three years and all that time I've put up with a very loud, oversized cooling fan on the CPU even though I'm not too much into overclocking. Even though I can hardly notice it anymore, I'm about to move to college and I've decided to spare my roommates from my jet-engine-cooling-fan. My current heatsink is a 2.5" x 2.5" aluminum sink with 196 x 1.17" long pins. Its equipped with a 60x60mm fan pushing 33 CFM at a rotational speed of 6850 rpm and a rated noise level of 43 dB.
I've overclocked the processor to 1.40 GHz by increasing the FSB from 133 MHz to 140 MHz.
With my current setup, the processor runs at 74*C (165*F). The Athlon Tbird critical temperature is 95*C (203*F).
Please recommend a quiet fan for my application. Thank you.
I've got an Athlon Thunderbird 1.33 GHz Socket A processor cooled by a Swiftech MC370 heatsink/fan on an Asus A7M266 motherboard. I've been running this setup for three years and all that time I've put up with a very loud, oversized cooling fan on the CPU even though I'm not too much into overclocking. Even though I can hardly notice it anymore, I'm about to move to college and I've decided to spare my roommates from my jet-engine-cooling-fan. My current heatsink is a 2.5" x 2.5" aluminum sink with 196 x 1.17" long pins. Its equipped with a 60x60mm fan pushing 33 CFM at a rotational speed of 6850 rpm and a rated noise level of 43 dB.
I've overclocked the processor to 1.40 GHz by increasing the FSB from 133 MHz to 140 MHz.
With my current setup, the processor runs at 74*C (165*F). The Athlon Tbird critical temperature is 95*C (203*F).
Please recommend a quiet fan for my application. Thank you.
