Still loving this FOP heatsink!!

[Confused]

This heatsink has lasted me from my Duron 700@900 days, through that CPU, a Tbird AXIA 1GHz@1.47, an XP1800+ Palamino @ 1686MHz, and now a Tbred B 1700+ @ 2GHz.


All the same heatsink, temps never more than 50C on the respective chips, and that was on that little storage heater of an AXIA! Currently 45C @ 2GHz on the Tbred!


I think the next step will be watercooling, I'll be sorry to see this heatsink go without a home!

 

[jarsoffart]

FOP heatsink? Please elaborate. Is the HSF quiet? What other case circulation do you have? 45C @ 2 GHz is very impressive.

 

[SWScorch]

FOP 38 or FOP 32? I had a FOP 32-1, and loved that heatsink. Very well designed. I just put the heatsink itself on my work computer, since it was overheating, but the damn PSU is in the way, so I had to install a 60x15mm fan on it. Even so, it lowered the temps 10 C over the heatsink I was using.

 

[lenjack]

The FOP32 is an excellent, underated heatsink. It won't stand up to the top heatsink, but it does a very nice job for light overclocking.

 

[Confused]

jarsoffart, the FOP32-1 and FOP38 are Aluminium heatsinks made by GlobalWin, with 4600rpm or 7000rpm Deltas respectively. They came out around the time of the Athlon 1GHz, and were the best you could get at the time, and before any of the copper or copper-based heatsinks were out.


It was a FOP 32-1, but I dropped a screw on it about a year and a half ago and it broke off 2 of the blades on the stock fan! Since then I put on an 80mm Adda, then changed that to a 92mm Adda

It's been on 3 motherboards, Abit KT7, ECS K7S5A, and now an Epox 8RDA+.

There is no "case cooling" at the moment (or for the past 6 months) as i'm working on the case it's going into, so it's sitting open to the air on the removable motherboard tray.

It is pretty quiet in my opinion. It's quieter than the fan on my Ti4200, which isn't too loud anyway



I might have to actually move this across to my server machine, a Duron 850, and put a really low CFM fan on there to get that a little quieter

Can't complain, especially as I could still get some more if i wanted for about £10 each (i think I paid about £35-40 for it new)


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