Socket A Fanless Cooler

[KH85]

I am looking for a fanless cooler for a Athlon Xp 2600, it will be used as a server when i get my Mini Mac. So it needs to be silent, and the only fan that will would be running would be the heatsink one (120mm on a zalmon copper flower at the moment) - ill be getting a fanless powersupply in the near future.

So is there any, i notice there is some for teh AMD 64's but cant seem to see one for a Socket A chip :disgust:.

Any link would be helpfull (UK preferably)

 

[0010010110]

http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/4in1heatpipe/cl-p0071SonicTower/cl-p0071.htm
http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/cl-p0019Fanless103/cl-p0019fanless103.htm

They're the only two that I know of, although there may be others.
You will need to have an exhaust fan in the case though.

Edit: Oh, forget the second one, it's A64/P4 only.

 

[KH85]

thanks for the links.

The first one look HUGE!!

 

[ibanez1978]

i have the thermaltake sonictower and it is huge but it works great. i was going for a super quiet system and that was the first step. i only have 2 fans(power supply and case) and i use smartfan to control the case fan. When my cpu is at the default temp that i chose the fan lowers to about 60% and it's hard to tell my system is even running. I may have to add a fan to the sonictower in the summer cause my room gets very hot but until then i am enjoying very quiet computing

 

[Operandi]

Passive CPU cooling isn't a very good option for a chip that draws as much as a XP 2600+ dose. It's not impossible but you'll need pretty good case ventilation to keep everything from overheating which pretty much negates the point of passive cooling. Good case ventilation = a significant amount of noise, it's not really practical.

You would get much better results with a low noise HS/F and low and minimal case ventilation. The same holds true for passive PSU?s; you will absolutely need decent case ventilation to keep it within operational temps. So again, you may be better served with a low noise PSU rather then passive units for overall lower system noise, Seasonic comes to mind?

P.S. Thermaltake is trash.

 

[KH85]

ahh thanks..

how about this option.

Artic cooling case (T2)

Artic cooling HSF?

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Operandi
Passive CPU cooling isn't a very good option for a chip that draws as much as a XP 2600+ dose. It's not impossible but you'll need pretty good case ventilation to keep everything from overheating which pretty much negates the point of passive cooling. Good case ventilation = a significant amount of noise, it's not really practical.

You would get much better results with a low noise HS/F and low and minimal case ventilation. The same holds true for passive PSU?s; you will absolutely need decent case ventilation to keep it within operational temps. So again, you may be better served with a low noise PSU rather then passive units for overall lower system noise, Seasonic comes to mind?

P.S. Thermaltake is trash.

I was waiting for the Thermaltake bashing to begin.
They are a lot of hype, but they don't deliver as well as others do.
Thermalright seems to make good stuff; their new XP line seems popular. Stick a quiet fan on one of them and you should be set.

 

[Operandi]

I'm not a big fan of Arctic Cooling's stuff but the Silentium would be a pretty good all in one solution, you can read about it here. AC's heatsinks are also pretty quite from what I hear (lamo pun ).

 

[Tiamat]

You should be fine with a Thermalright SI-97 with Nexus 92mm. Exhaust fan should be nexus 120mm fan. Both nexus at 9V or less. Seasonic S12 430 for power supply. You should try to run your processor at 2.0ghz at 1.5V or less.

 

[0010010110]

Originally posted by: KHGamez
ahh thanks..

how about this option.

Artic cooling case (T2)

Artic cooling HSF?

For the HSF, either a thermalright sp-97 or si-97 with a 92mm panaflow would be best.

 

[hondAS2ooo170]

thermal right x92

 

[Zap]

ZALMAN CNPS6000-AlCu

As others have said, don't try fanless. You can go with quiet fans, then undervolt the fans and still run much, much cooler than completely fanless. You seriously won't be able to hear it running unless you've been hanging out at silentpcreview.com forums too long.

A good setup would be the Thermalright SI-90 with an undervolted Yate Loon or Panaflow 80L fan, plus maybe underclocking and undervolting your CPU a bit. Then, instead of a fanless power supply get a power supply with a 120mm or 140mm fan. It should be really quiet and still move air. Block off all vents in your case except from front bottom. You'll now have a 2 fan system that will be near silent.

 

[xbassman]

Operandi definately hit it.
My HTPC was kinda loud. (Like a dummy I was unnecesarily OCing it)

Anyway it is in a heavy steel case. (Steel cases are quieter than their aluminum counterparts)
It went from loud to pretty quiet with only reducing case fan voltages.
Even though I have a Panaflo H1A @ 12v on the CPU. It stays well below the ambient noise of the room with it's 3 case fans @ 5v. (1-80mm L1A and 2 60mm L1A Panaflos)

 

[larry89]

Passive Cooled > Undervolted Quiet Fans :thumbsup: