What is the best Air Fan?

[Pecado]

My T-Bird 1200 runs at 59 degres Celcius.....And it is NOT OC!?!
I thought that the CPU temputure was okey until I saw some posts on this board about people running much lower then that...With OC systems, they are also air cooled.....

Any opions about the best air Fan? And can I use any type of cooling pasta on a T-Bird?........(I dont wanna shortcurcit anything)

Please help a OC newbie:p

[verT]

First off, get some good thermal grease ( I use Artic Silver, but can be expensive with regards to other options ). If you want nothng but air flow get a big fan and make an adapter for it or you can get a nice shiny new heatsink (Thermoengine, Swiftech, Alpha) Check www.athlonoc.com for some good ideas on techniques and reviews. I personally have my 1.0 running @1.33 with an Alpha pal6035 49 degrees Celcius its a little warm for my liking so I might be changing it

Cheers

[Virus]

The best "Air Fan" for a heatsink is the Delta 7000 rpm fan. What board are you using? Here's a link to a good explanation of why motherboard temp reporting is wrong.

http://mikewarrior.freeservers.com/

[pelligrini]

The delta's do move a lot of air, but they are noisy. All of the small, high speed fans make quite a racket. It's really not an extremely loud type noise, but the frequencies can get quite un-nerving.

verT has it correct too, get some good thermal compound like Artic Silver II. If you are using a factory thermal pad that came with your heatsink you should see a significant gain by using ASII.

[dnar]

Lapping can provide an extra "degree" of thermal transfer as well, depending on the factory finish of the heatsink. My FOP38 was covered in scratch marks, so a marked improvement of several degrees just from lapping.

[Medic193]

The best combo I have found is a Delta (2 in my case) on an SK6 HS. It's loud as hell but boy does it get some air moving. The SK6 is the best HS I've ever used.

[Pecado]

Thank you all for the input! ........

dnar, what do you mean by lapping? and how do you do it?

I have a FOB38 but I dont like the "train" noise.....So it is just rotting in my closet, plus it has some really bad scratches from where I dont know...:confused:

I have just ordred a heatsink, called:

Zalman CNPS 3100 Gold CPU-cooler, comes with a slotcooler placed ontop of the heatsink
and some Artic Silver II as one of you recommended

The CPU-Cooler has the following statistics:
Specifikations on the heatsink
For: SocketA (AMD Duron, AMD Thunderbird) og FC-PGA (newer Intel Celeron and Intel Pentium 3)
Dimensions: 52x100x65(mm)
weight: 296 gr.
Termisk risistance: 0.35 C/W (silent) og 0.28 C/W (normal)
Specifikations on Slotcooler:
Fabrikat: ADDA
RPM: max 2500
CFM: 25 (silent), 31.4CFM (normal)
dBa: 20dBa (silent), 28dBa (normal)

here is a link http://www.zalman.co.kr/english/product/cnps3100g.htm if anyone is interested in this very special heatsink (I think it is special).
I would like your thoughts on how good this heatsink slotcooler combination is, please keep in mind that it is lownoise, but I will of cause run it in normal mode........And the big question is: Was this a bad buy?

[dnar]

Lapping is the process of smoothing the heatsink matting surface, This is an example (http://www.overclockers.com.au/techstuff//a_lap_blorb/)



The HSF you describe is not very efficient... No good for a Tbird over 1000Mhz....



Ok for a Duron. Hope this helps. :D

[Martyn]

Originally posted by verT
I personally have my 1.0 running @1.33 with an Alpha pal6035 49 degrees Celcius its a little warm for my liking so I might be changing it

Cheers

I think the only issue is instabilities cause by excessive heat. We get all paranoid about temps, but 49C isn't a problem unless you are overclocking and you have an instability you can attribute to heat (goes away when cooled better). Just dropping the temp for the sake of it, doesn't really do anything. I would happily live with high temps and a stable PC, in defference to a quiet life. Personally, my choice would be the Swiftech MC462 with a slow quiet fan.

[verT]

I was thinking more along the lines of a "fandapter" :D and get an 80mm fan on it, I am pretty happy with the PAL so far. I'd like to get my feet wet in water cooling (just an expression I don't want anything wet) but I am really nervous about it, so air it will be for now.

[Martyn]

Originally posted by verT
I was thinking more along the lines of a "fandapter" :D and get an 80mm fan on it, I am pretty happy with the PAL so far. I'd like to get my feet wet in water cooling (just an expression I don't want anything wet) but I am really nervous about it, so air it will be for now.

Fandapters are great, more wind less noise = :D

Check out this article (one I wrote for overclockers.com last year........ http://www.abbc65.theseed.net/shroud/shroud.htm

[Dave S]

Originally posted by tril0Byte


Fandapters are great, more wind less noise = :D

Check out this article (one I wrote for overclockers.com last year........ http://www.abbc65.theseed.net/shroud/shroud.htm
I second that [or third it?] I’ve got 120mm’s sitting on top of my swiftech’s :D

[siggy]

Love the sig Dave S. I about fell out of my chair. LOL

[Dave S]

Originally posted by siggy
Love the sig Dave S. I about fell out of my chair. LOL
hehe :cool: hu thanx:)