Socket A HSF from QuietPC.com idea......

[Confused]

i've ordered the SA cooler from quietpc.com, and when i was reading the product page, i noticed that it said that due to the efficiency of the design, only a slower rpm fan was needed. if this is the case, then would it be possible to mount a higher speed and cfm fan (losing the silence of it tho) to make it better at cooling??

your opinions pls

 

[RaulDuke]

I'm sure you could replace the fan, but I really have to ask... Why would you do this? Why would you order a (fairly pricy) cooler all the way from England that is designed from the ground up to be ultra quiet only to make it louder? I don't mean to insult you, I just honestly think that this would defeat the purpose of the product. Have you already tested it and found it to be insufficient at cooling your current setup? If so, maybe try Arctic Silver before you go replacing the fan, this may lower the temp a few degrees. You may have some difficulties replacing the fan on it anyway, due to the proprietary way it attaches itself to the heatsink. Although the fan is seperate from the circular plastic base, you may end up breaking those 4 retaining pins in the process of replacing it (you could always glue the replacement on if that happens, I guess). As to which replacement fan would give you a significant increase in CFM, I'm not really sure - maybe someone else can help (it's 50mm diameter)? BTW, I'm running this HSF on a 1 GHz T-Bird and according to my mobo (MSI K7T Pro2A) it's running at a very reasonable 35/44 C idle/stress. This may be comparing apples to oranges however, since we have different mobo's and I'm not overclocking.

 

[ericd]

They also say on the page that it should not be used with a duron or T-Bird because it can't dissipate enough heat. Unfortunatly I don't think that this will be solved by a high RPM fan because the problem lies with the heatsink itself, the current fan can disperse all of the heat that the heatsink is able to draw away from the processor but the heatsink just can't draw the heat away fast enough.

Eric

I retract this statement due to the fact that I didn't look at their page before I posted it to find out that they have released a new version for socket A.....oops