Cooling a Sempron 2800

[Gentoo]

Placing it in a Sonata II on a Biostar TForce6100 mATX board.

Initally I purchased a AOP-6400 SkiveTek, but after reading reviews here I see this might not have been a good choice; although the model reviewed applied to a P4.

I'd like to keep the cost at $30 or so, and obviously don't want alot of noise. I'm also concerned with fitment on such a small board.

Any advice is much appreciated.

[QuietOC]

I'd like to keep the cost at $30 or so, and obviously don't want alot of noise. I'm also concerned with fitment on such a small board.

The motherboard shouldn't be a problem fitting any heatsink. I have the Scythe Ninja SCNJ-1000 on my Tforce. The larger heatsinks may not fit in your Sonata, however.

You can get by with a cheap aluminum heatsink if you undervolt the Sempron 2800+. The 1.100V setting will work, and you might get down lower than that.

My Ninja pretty much runs passively most of the time with my old Sempron 2800+ clocked at 2.4GHz at 1.5V. At load the 120mm ducted fan on the Ninja doesn't have to spin faster than 800rpm.

[mr pink]

I've got a similar setup 2600 oc'd to 2.0 ghz in a bqe3700.
Ive hooked a zalman resistor to the stock amd hsf and it runs like a champ!
They cool pretty easily, those semprons.