| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 51921 | 2004-12-03 08:09:00 | Light Weight Good Socket A Headsink | noone (22) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 299468 | 2004-12-05 23:21:00 | bump | noone (22) | ||
| 299469 | 2004-12-06 05:00:00 | Anyone ? | noone (22) | ||
| 299470 | 2004-12-06 05:38:00 | Just making a side-comment: Don't get DSE's SocketA cooler as it's very noisy (I have one in my PC at the moment, running at 85% so that the noise is tolerable) | somebody (208) | ||
| 299471 | 2004-12-06 06:56:00 | Hi there I have been looking as well. My gigabyte motherboard has not got the 4 holes in it for mounting a ridiculously large heatsink fan. I was trying to get silent but the best silent ones needed the 4 holes on the motherboard. I found one that seems to be reasonably quiet and have reasonable cooling but some reviews still say it really should be lapped. www.stylespc.co.nz Going to get it this week and try it out. My 2600+ cpu runs at around 50 deg with my heatsink and a fan that sounds like a jet engine that i can hear at the other end of the house. Darrin :):) |
Gimmee (6238) | ||
| 299472 | 2004-12-06 07:15:00 | yeah i have the clip as well , how much does this heatsink weigh , i dont whether i should worry about the weight restrictions or not , because there are some really nice heatsinks out there , yet they are all over the weight limit | noone (22) | ||
| 299473 | 2004-12-06 07:49:00 | Not sure on the weight but this one (www.ascent.co.nz) does work, and it's quiet. One thing I have found with my comp however is that with the case side-cover on the cpu temp is about 10 degrees above the mobo temp. With the cover off it's the same as the mobo (approx 30 degrees C) or a degree or two warmer. The cpu cooler is obviously doing it's job BUT .... it needs to have some cool air to start with. You may need to do as I am and look at a fan in the side cover ducted to over the heatsink fan. | |llus|oN (645) | ||
| 299474 | 2004-12-06 07:53:00 | If I had the choice again I would buy a Thermalright SLK-900A, currently I have a volcano 12, which while cooling well, is blimmin heavy (around 750gms including the fan i think) and as such restricts me when I transport my computer to LAN's as I have to carry my computer on its side | lagbort (5041) | ||
| 299475 | 2004-12-06 07:54:00 | The Volacan 10 can keep it's weight down by having a relatively fast spinning fan (RPM) and therefore a noisy fan at 36dBA (which is probably an optimistic noise rating), so if you don't mind the noise it coult do the job. The Thermatake Pipe 101 doesn't come with a fan so it's hard to rate, no doubt somewhere in the spec's it will give a minimum CFM rating for the fan which you need to purchase, again look at RPM and dBA to gage if you can put up with the noise. At 20 to 22 dBA you'll need to listen for the noise to be aware of it unless your particularly sensitive or on a mission to reduce noise. Getting up around 30dBA, most people will be well aware of the noise and will also probably be annoyed by it. Some people will be happy to trade noise for cooling. The more efficient conventional heatsink and fan combo's which are relatively quiete will be heavier, and are generaly more costly to buy due to the materials used and build quality. You will need to make a trade off somewhere. Not all good heatsinks rely on mounting holes in the motherboard, the Zalman mentioned above, for eg, uses a clip. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 299476 | 2004-12-06 09:20:00 | im ok with the cost of the heatsink as i understand the importance of choosing the right computer componants , yet weight gets me just a bit , i dont transport my computer , yet wouldnt the weight pose a extra hazard when installing the heatsink. | noone (22) | ||
| 299477 | 2004-12-06 09:46:00 | > yet wouldn't the weight pose a extra hazard when installing the heatsink. No, not necessarily. It's the stress put on the board by the attachment method (during fitting) or by moving the rig around. The quality of the board will dictate to a large extent how it will perform under stress. Of course if you dropped it on your foot or on a delicate component then it might break something ;) I must admit, fitting the Zalman cnps flower cooler was a bit scary due to the power of the sprung clip, even with the tool provided, a lot of pressure had to be exerted, I had visions of something slipping and whammo..... I've done 2 without incident. If the thing does damage through it's weight by just sitting, or hanging, there, the board has to be pretty light weight in quality and materials. I believe the heat pipe ones can get over some of the weight issues by their method of extracting heat away from the chip. Still if it needs a jet powered fan to reach the desired level of cooling, I'd be inclined to give it a miss, you may as well use your current heatsink and throw a powerful, noisy fan on it. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 1 2 3 | |||||