Silent 775 Heatsink/fan that fits in an Antec Fusion case

abennettuk · Post by **abennettuk** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:52 am

I'm after a heatsink and fan that will fit in an Antec Fusion case. The stock intel (core duo 6300) is way to load in the front room when running on full speed.

Im not really looking to overclock the cpu so its really silence that i'm after. Anyone found a good one for this?

klankymen · Post by **klankymen** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:51 am

arctic cooling freezer 7 on a low budget
or
thermalrigh xp-120 if you've got a bit more money

abennettuk · Post by **abennettuk** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:12 am

Will the xp120 fit? Looks pretty chunky? Does it come with a fan we well or is it passive?

jedster · Post by **jedster** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:37 pm

depending on your motherboard, the zalman 7700 will fit without modifications. it's also on sale at newegg. i'm using it on an e6600 inside an nsk2400 and it cools pretty well. depending how anal about noise you are, you might want to swap the fan, but as an htpc the stock fan on the lowest voltage will probably be fine.

don't be intimidated by the fan mod -- it's rather easy, though your first one will be time consuming.

one note: my motherboard, the dg965ot, puts the cpu pretty close to the side of the board. in order to get the 7700 to fit, i had to clip the ends off of about 16 or so fins. when you clip the fins off, they tend to go flying -- because of the tension in the way the flower was designed, i guess. anyway, just be aware of that fact if you go in the direction of the 7700....

also, as a side note, i found that by orienting the fans to blow into the case instead of out, i got much better cooling of the cpu and the mobo's NB and SB. unfortunately, i can't tell if the HDD cooling suffered because my HDDs are configured in a raid which defeats the ability to monitor their temperature, at least as far as i know.

spaceman_spiff · Post by **spaceman_spiff** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:59 pm

I have an xp-90 in my nsk2400 and it works fine.

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dv8ed · Post by **dv8ed** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:33 pm

will the thermalright SI-120 or SI-128 work with a fan added on top in the fusion case?

can anyone confirm?

CoolGav · Post by **CoolGav** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:47 am

I have put a Zalman 7000 in my NSK2400, which required a mounting adaptor (CS-1 or something like that) to fit Skt775. A big improvment over the Intel stock cooler.