which socketA heatsink looks coolest?

[ApuN]

i just bought an xp1600 and ak31a (don't plan on heavy o/cing...
lookin for a nice hs/fan to go with it.

volcano7 and blue orb are what i have sights set on so far

 

[AkumaBao]

Have you seen the Thermaltake Dragon Orbs? They're good for show.

if you haven't seen it, look here.

 

[ShinSa]

So-TRickcomputer.com has some anodized heatsinks if you were going for a color them in your case.

It's worth a look.

look here

 

[zzzz]

zalman flower heatsink

 

[clumsum]

The new CoolerMaster HHC-001 Heat Pipe CPU Cooler looks kind of wild and works good too ....................

 

[Egrimm]

I agree with AkumaBao, the ThermalTake DragonOrb looks good, and DragonOrb3 (with 7000rpm fan) performs decent but is very loud though.
I you get this hsf though, get a shim. This hsf is heavy and the clip is very tight, thus resulting in far too many broken or clipped cores. I know what I talk about, it clipped and later crushed my 1.4 T-Bird.

 

[ApuN]

thanks for the input fellas =)
i think i'm goin witht he volcano7. i like how it ajusts speed according to case temp (only i wish the temp. probe was closer to the cpu core)

 

[RedWolf]

Move the probe. Pretty simple procedure. Just take the fan off, pull the probe out of the fan partially, push the probe into the heat sink, and reatach the fan.

 

[Egrimm]

The TT Volcano7 is a good loking hsf too, good choice, that TT-grille look very cool. Still, it doesn't perform that great, but moving the probe like RedWolf said would probably help quite a bit.

 

[WA261]

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i argee....that thing looks so damn sweet.....if it was not a passive cooler i would have one

 

[MoFunk]

I think that the Alpha looks cool to me, I have a 92mm fan on and it looks so huge. To me that's cool looking.

 

[Divebrake]

I like the PAL 8045. The black pins remind me of that monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Looks like an ominous forest of those monoliths on your motherboard.

 

[Migroo]

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Yup.

 

[Migroo]

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i argee....that thing looks so damn sweet.....if it was not a passive cooler i would have one >>



Its only a passive cooler if you dont use the included fan...

 

[breweyez]

I am using a 8045 with a L1 panaflow. I dont think it looks as cool as some of the others, but at $30 I think its a great buy. The swifty is twice as much.