What's a cheap and QUIET heatsink for my AMD64 3000 chip?

[Zap]

3chordcharlie, I still have 2 Tualatin Celerons. Nice chips, I agree, but though they ran cool compared to the Coppermine/Willamette/Thunderbird/Palomino cores around that time, IMO low speed (non-overclocked) A64 and socket 754 Semprons run cooler. Heck, I still even have two of the Zalman passive heatsinks from BITD and those weren't really sufficient to keep the Tualatins cool (though they worked okay on VIA C3 Ezra cores). Then again, perhaps it's just that there were no huge heatsinks for the Tualatin.

furballi, I put a 7700AlCu on my wife's computer with a 3200+ overclocked to 2.4GHz default voltage on an Abit KN8 board. The board has some setting in BIOS that allows you to choose a temperature and a percentage - it'll undervolt the HSF by that percentage unless the CPU exceeds your choosen temperature. I set it pretty much to the mininum power percentage and temperature... don't remember exactly but something like 60ºC or so. Except for on first POST, the fan stays silent as far as I can tell. No need for the FanMate2 that it came with - can use that for something else.

 

[3chordcharlie]

Originally posted by: Zap
3chordcharlie, I still have 2 Tualatin Celerons. Nice chips, I agree, but though they ran cool compared to the Coppermine/Willamette/Thunderbird/Palomino cores around that time, IMO low speed (non-overclocked) A64 and socket 754 Semprons run cooler. Heck, I still even have two of the Zalman passive heatsinks from BITD and those weren't really sufficient to keep the Tualatins cool (though they worked okay on VIA C3 Ezra cores). Then again, perhaps it's just that there were no huge heatsinks for the Tualatin.

furballi, I put a 7700AlCu on my wife's computer with a 3200+ overclocked to 2.4GHz default voltage on an Abit KN8 board. The board has some setting in BIOS that allows you to choose a temperature and a percentage - it'll undervolt the HSF by that percentage unless the CPU exceeds your choosen temperature. I set it pretty much to the mininum power percentage and temperature... don't remember exactly but something like 60ºC or so. Except for on first POST, the fan stays silent as far as I can tell. No need for the FanMate2 that it came with - can use that for something else.

I never actually had a tualatin, but I had a coppermine system @1ghz that was absolutely dead silent except under full load. I upgraded to a palomino cpu, and havne't had a quiet computer since.

BTW white noise really bothers me a lot, and most of the time I don't have music on when I'm using my PC, so when I say quiet, I mean quiet

 

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[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: 3chordcharlie

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: modempower
The amd stock opteron copper heatpipe heatsink. $15. Works great and cheap, quiet. You dont get much more value than that.

I can hear it whirring up a storm in the case sitting at my feet. not my idea of quiet.

You're like me then, I've hated every computer I've had since my last P3 because I can't get the damn things to be quiet. I've gone and bought the quietest hsf I can find, new PSUs, installed multiple quiet fans @7V to take the load of the PSU fans, ripped the fans off northbridges and videocards, (I don't OC; I actually UC'd my videocard so it would run properly with no fan).

I'd go out and buy a brand new tualatin if they would make them again

maybe the new "low power" chips from intel with work for you (when they eventually get here)

have you checked your drives for noise? my old 3.5 inch drives were the chief noise culprit. I now have a samsung 2.5 inch notebook drive (with an IDE adapter) for the OS, and a samsung spinpoint 3.5 inch drive for data storage.

 

[3chordcharlie]

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: 3chordcharlie

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: modempower
The amd stock opteron copper heatpipe heatsink. $15. Works great and cheap, quiet. You dont get much more value than that.

I can hear it whirring up a storm in the case sitting at my feet. not my idea of quiet.

You're like me then, I've hated every computer I've had since my last P3 because I can't get the damn things to be quiet. I've gone and bought the quietest hsf I can find, new PSUs, installed multiple quiet fans @7V to take the load of the PSU fans, ripped the fans off northbridges and videocards, (I don't OC; I actually UC'd my videocard so it would run properly with no fan).

I'd go out and buy a brand new tualatin if they would make them again

maybe the new "low power" chips from intel with work for you (when they eventually get here)

have you checked your drives for noise? my old 3.5 inch drives were the chief noise culprit. I now have a samsung 2.5 inch notebook drive (with an IDE adapter) for the OS, and a samsung spinpoint 3.5 inch drive for data storage.

It's definitely the CPU fan, and the PSU fan. Actually, I bought a nearly silent cpu hsf, but my 300w enermax must be drawing too much power to let the fan idel; at cold boot the system is quiet for about a minute, then the PSU fan spins up.