Recommendations for cooling my system.

[Girospeck]

Case:
ANTEC Plus 1080AMG

Power Supply:
Antec Original TRUE 430W P4 Power Supply

Motherboard:
ASUS Motherboard for Intel Pentium 4 / Celeron Processors, 800Mhz FSB Model# P4C800-E DELUXE

Keyboard/mouse:
Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop

Memory:
Cosair PC-3200 512 DDR (2x)

Processor:
Intel Pentium 4 / 2.6CGHz 512k socket 478 Hyper Threading Technology 800 MHz FSB

Video Card:
ASUS V9950 128MB GeForce FX5900 Video Card, VGA+DVI+TVout, Model V9950/TD/128M

CD/DVD Drive:
MITSUMI 16X DVD ROM DM-2000TE-B BLACK

Floppy Drive:
MITSUMI D359M3 BLACK FDD 1.44MB 3.5INCH

Hard Drive:
WD WESTERN DIGITAL "SPECIAL EDITION" 120GB 7200RPM EIDE HARD DRIVE MODEL # WD1200JB

Monitor:
Hitachi CM721FB 19" FLAT-FACED CRT Monitor Short Neck (Black)

Headset/mic:
Plantronics head sets .audio 90

Software:
MS XP Pro OEM

With the parts supply adequate cooling, or do i need to buy something else? Also do you think I should consider liquid cool?

Thanks.

 

[Davegod]

case: four low-rpm 80mm case fans, two at the lower-front sucking in (one is held in the HDD drive caddy thing) and two at the top-rear exhausting it. iirc that case comes with 2-3 medium rpm fans which will be ample, just make it so you have roughly the same amount of fan blowing in as out (remember there's the psu fan blowing out a bit aswell).

cpu: your cpu comes with stock cooling? iirc intel supplied stock cooling is more than adequate. otherwise im not sure if a SLK-7 or SLK-700 if it will fit your mobo, SLK-800 and SLK-900 are even better but more expensive. All these heatisnks will need a fan additionally, something by Panaflo or Pabst is reccomended, the size (60, 70, 80 or 92mm square)depends on which model, several of them take multiple sizes of fan in which case usually the larger the better. you should be fine with fairly low rpm fans (especially if an 80 or 92mm one).

 

[Steelwingz]

Just spent some time reading the cooling reviews and tips at overclockers.com. Really good info.

Check out their Heatsink and Watercooling Roundup" article. Lists just about every current air cooling solution available.

I just purchased an Asus P4P800 Deluxe. I'm going with the Zalman CNPS700-Cu. It's big, it's heavy, but it is also a very efficient and quiet cooler. The thing is so big it won't fit on several mobos (Zalman has a rather out of date listing on their web site of mobos it wont' work with), but I did come accross a review somewhere -think it was Tom's Hardware- that used your P4C800 mobo for their review of this heat sink.

Davegod's suggestion of the Thermalright SLK-800U was the top choice at overclocker.com, but at 55 decibels it might be a bit on the noisy side.

 

[Davegod]

Originally posted by: Steelwingz
Davegod's suggestion of the Thermalright SLK-800U was the top choice at overclocker.com, but at 55 decibels it might be a bit on the noisy side.

thermalright usually dont provide the fan with the heatsink, it sup to you to choose how powerful/noisy the fan is. a low-rpm Panaflo or Pabst as suggested should be about as quiet as it gets with aircooling - that zalman, like most of their products, does have a reputation for quiet tho.

the overclockers.com article seems to have arbitarily chosen either a vantec tornado, a selection of delta's, the stock fan OR some random other fan for the "benchmarking". The fan used with the slk's was a vantec tornado, its no bloody wonder it was noisy. for heatsink roundups they should all use either the same fan or all use a stock fan, of course where possible - and preferably do both. otherwise its just comparing various examples of cooling setups.