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Quiet heatsink/fan for Socket A?

Post by daneguy » Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:41 am

I'd like to quiet my wife's computer down a bit. I'm looking for something relatively inexpensive but quiet. She's running a Socket A AMD 2400+.

Thanks for any tips!
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Post by Shukuteki » Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:22 am

The Thermalright SI-97a is a very capable choice.

http://www.svc.com/si97-amd-21.html

I am running a socket 939 Opteron on it and it works for that, so you should be fine.
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Post by daneguy » Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:27 am

Wait, no fan?? :shock:
Do I need to buy a fan for it?
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Post by Operandi » Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:27 am

The Zalman CNPS3100+ should do the trick.

http://www.sharkacomputers.com/cnps3100plus.html
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Post by Shukuteki » Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:58 am

daneguy wrote:Wait, no fan?? :shock:
Do I need to buy a fan for it?
Yeah. Any 92mm should work, though I prefer a Nexus:

http://www.svc.com/df1209sl-3.html
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Re: Quiet heatsink/fan for Socket A?

Post by J. Sparrow » Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:01 pm

daneguy wrote:I'm looking for something relatively inexpensive but quiet. She's running a Socket A AMD 2400+.
Today I installed an Arctic Cooling Copper Lite, 8.95 €; not bad at all!
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Post by daneguy » Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:08 pm

Operandi wrote:The Zalman CNPS3100+ should do the trick.

http://www.sharkacomputers.com/cnps3100plus.html
Thanks! I snagged one. :D
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Post by thejamppa » Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:26 pm

the fan on CNPS3100+ at full is noisy. You may want to change that 92mm fan into something else like 120mm Noctua or Nexus, you get good air flow, which cools nb, mofsets, vrms's and ram even better than Zalman's standard 92mm comming with the HSF.

CNPS3100+ is my current only real Zalman favourites as its the Zalman CPU coolers where you can change fan without modding HSF.
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Post by daneguy » Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:33 pm

thejamppa wrote:the fan on CNPS3100+ at full is noisy. You may want to change that 92mm fan into something else like 120mm Noctua or Nexus, you get good air flow, which cools nb, mofsets, vrms's and ram even better than Zalman's standard 92mm comming with the HSF.

CNPS3100+ is my current only real Zalman favourites as its the Zalman CPU coolers where you can change fan without modding HSF.
Really?? :( I thought it was supposed to be quiet even at "normal".
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Post by Operandi » Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:29 pm

The CNPS3100+ comes with an inline resistor you can use to drop the voltage down to 7 or 9v (I forget which). Of even better if you motherboard has fan control you can use that to set the desired min/max speed.

Also keep in mind "quiet" is subjective even here. Personally I think the Zalman 92mm fans sound fine at equivalent 5v speeds, but I would never consider them quiet at full.
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Post by daneguy » Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:54 am

Oh no! :( I thought it was more quiet than that! Maybe I'll send it back when it arrives.

Any others you might recommend?

Thanks.

EDIT: I canceled the order.

The Thermalright SI-97a with a fan is a bit pricey. Are there any others I should consider?

Thanks.
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Post by Kremmit » Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:32 pm

Scythe Katana or Katana Cu (but not the new Katana II). Newegg had them recently, they cost about as much as the Si-97 but come with a good, quiet fan and controller included.
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Post by daneguy » Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:08 pm

I decided to stop being cheap and went with the Thermalright SI-97a and a Nexus fan. :D
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Post by Cerb » Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:09 pm

TBH, I'm still surprised how even the older coolers perform. I have a ragged AX-7, and it has yet to let me down. I'm tempted by the SI-97, but unless it can do the job passively, I really think it's a little bit much. I'd say anything that can match or beat a PAL8045 should do the job well, as long as you're cooling a Tbred or newer.

So, if you want to hunt used...

P.S. wow, what timing!
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Post by psiu » Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:55 pm

Hopefully daneguy checks the thread one more time--I definitely recommend S2Kctl for socket-A systems. It enables the bus-disconnect feature and reduces *idle* temps by a LOT (5-10C).

just do a search for S2KCtl and it should be the first listing...
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Post by daneguy » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:05 pm

Cool. Thanks!
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