Thermaltake Sonic Tower mod

tmoney · Post by **tmoney** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 10:23 pm

Hey, I kinda accidentally got a Sonic Tower a couple days ago for my Conroe rig. I wanted a Ninja, but they were out, and this cooler looked big and fit 775.

Anyway, I initially had the cooler installed passively, with system fans cooling it. I saw on newegg that someone had dremmeled theirs so that they could fir a fan in between the fin stacks, so I decided to do this, albeit without the dremmeling.

I ran some jumbo paper clips through the fan's screw holes and into the four screw holes on the two fan holders this cooler comes with as optional for fan mounting on either side.

I must say, I was stunned by my temps. Right now, I'm running at 100% CPU load with Rosetta@home, Task Manager confirms that I'm at 100% CPU, and my cpu temp is 36-37 Celsius.

It's also remarkably quiet with a good fan. I have a medium speed Yate Loon in the hsf, and two more identical fans as an intake and exhaust, and the system is nearly silent.

Anyway, thought I'd share. I'd highly suggest this cooler with this mod for really efficient and quiet cooling. I was going to take pics, but my camera was out of batteries

qviri · Post by **qviri** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:40 am

You forgot to mention what CPU you have.

McBanjo · Post by **McBanjo** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:43 am

What was the temps before modd?

tmoney · Post by **tmoney** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:18 am

oh yeah-- core 2 e6600.

the temps are actually lower right now-- 33-34C at full load.

before they were around 48-50C at load... didn't see any temps at 100% cpu as I didn't have rosetta@home installed.

pony-tail · Post by **pony-tail** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:51 pm

They are actually not a bad cooler , they were just a bit fiddly to mount on a socket 478 .
I had one passively cooling a P4 3.2 northy on a P4P800 board - it should cool your chip with just the rear case fan , If the socket is the right way around.

tmoney · Post by **tmoney** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:55 pm

yeah, install was horrible on 775, too. It was definitely designed for 939 and they afterwards designed retention systems for the other sockets.