thermalright xp-120 passive/fanless

dan · Post by **dan** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 3:34 pm

has anyone tried to run their cpu passively cooled with a thermalright xp-120? or run it fanless? that would be the ideal for silence

my cpu puts out 26watts and i'm wondering if i can put an xp-120 to get passive silence. i have a seasonic tornado 300 watt as the main cooler.

JimK · Post by **JimK** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 5:07 pm

Try Ed's Article in the User Reviews section for some info.

Post by **Ralf Hutter** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 6:05 am

Given a modicum of case airflow, the XP-120 running fanless would be a slam-dunk with a 26W CPU.

As part of my "Silently Cooling the Pentium M Desktop" article, I ran a Zalman 7000 fanless and it cooled the 21W 755 Dothan CPU without even breaking a sweat. The XP-120 should do at least as good and probably better.

frostedflakes · Post by **frostedflakes** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 6:12 am

I can run an XP-90 passive on my 25w processor (slightly undervolted, so probably closer to 22w), so I'd think the XP-120 would work fine.

dan · Post by **dan** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 6:39 pm

thanks for all the replies.

the xp-90 would be more to my liking than an xp-120. with stock heatsink and fan volted to 5v my temps are 24'C and heatsink is cool to touch.

when i remove the 5v stock fan it slowly climbs to over 50C over a period of an hour which i don't let go over as i turn fan back on.

dan