Replacement 60mm CPU fan for Ultra heatsink - Socket A

sm8000 · Post by **sm8000** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:09 pm

A few months back I won a Socket A CPU on eBay and the seller included this CPU cooler:

Ultra Fire Athlon XP CPU Cooler

I tried it out and the fan is pretty loud, so I'd like to replace it. I can get this fan at my local Micro Center:

iXtrema Pro 60mm Quiet Case Fan

But it's a case fan and I'm not sure it's up to the task of cooling a Socket A CPU, unless I maybe put it with my Duron 1.8

So are there any decently cooling, relatively quiet aftermarket 60mm CPU fans out there?

wwenze · Post by **wwenze** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 2:39 am

Why not try this?

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Post by **NeilBlanchard** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:59 am

Greetings & welcome to SPCR,

There should be a compatible Socket A HSF that takes an 80mm fan at least? There certainly used to be, so I would try to find one.

Here's one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835150023

[Edit: I have used a similar HS, (but without the copper plug that this one has) on a Thunderbird 1.4gz, which was the hottest Socket A CPU, IIRC. It worked fine with a thermally controlled Enermax 80mm fan. This heatsink is pretty darn effective.]

sjoukew · Post by **sjoukew** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 4:49 am

That heat sink probably needs a lot of air-flow to cool down the cpu. Just putting an other fan on which makes less noise isn't always the solution. Less noise often means less airflow, and therefore less cooling performance.
So if you want another fan checkout the airflow it generates and check the cooling performance of the heat sink. Socket A processors don't have many overheating guards in place and can be overheated and with that damaged when the cooling is insufficient.

bonestonne · Post by **bonestonne** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:20 am

surprised this hasn't come up before. why not try the Thermalright SI-97?
1) 92mm fan
2) socket compatible
3) the design is much better than other heatsinks for that CPU.

http://www.systemcooling.com/thermalright_si-97-01.html

you'll have to look around on ebay or some other website, newegg doesn't seem to carry them anymore, and i can't find any other stores that have them online.

sm8000 · Post by **sm8000** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 8:07 am

wwenze wrote:Why not try this?

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That sounds good, where can I find out more about these adapters?

NeilBlanchard wrote:Greetings & welcome to SPCR,

There should be a compatible Socket A HSF that takes an 80mm fan at least? There certainly used to be, so I would try to find one.

Here's one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835150023

[Edit: I have used a similar HS, (but without the copper plug that this one has) on a Thunderbird 1.4gz, which was the hottest Socket A CPU, IIRC. It worked fine with a thermally controlled Enermax 80mm fan. This heatsink is pretty darn effective.]

I actually already have that one in use.

bonestonne wrote:surprised this hasn't come up before. why not try the Thermalright SI-97?
1) 92mm fan
2) socket compatible
3) the design is much better than other heatsinks for that CPU.

http://www.systemcooling.com/thermalright_si-97-01.html

you'll have to look around on ebay or some other website, newegg doesn't seem to carry them anymore, and i can't find any other stores that have them online.

That looks like it would be a good one for my Lian-Li PC-V880.

The whole point of this is not to replace the heatsink, but just the fan for the sake of a little bit of fun. If there isn't a suitable 60mm solution, then please tell me more about this 80-60 adapter - I've never heard of it and it sounds like it could really do the job well.

Bugsi · Post by **Bugsi** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:07 pm

I think you'll find that the Thermalright SI-97 is no longer actually available from any vendor. I went with an SilenX iXtrema 120 recently for socket A because it was the largest heatsink/fan combo I could find that came with mounting hardware for socket A.

The SilenX 60mm fan you listed in your top post is only 1500 RPM -vs- 4500 RPM for the stock fan. Look for a 60mm fan with higher RPM for more airflow, or you'll definitely risk under-cooling your CPU.

Felger Carbon · Post by **Felger Carbon** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:32 pm

As you have already learned from the posts above, SPCR folk will recommend a number of different approaches. If you want a good low noise 60mm fan, there really is only one (at different nominal RPMs at 12V). I recommend this one.

I recently did a mini-survey of 60mm fans, and at the same airflow as the above fan, the other fans were ~10dBA noisier. That's because they had huge motor hubs and tee-niny stubs for fan blades. The SilenX is the only 60mm fan I could find with a proportionally normal motor hub and normal fan blades.

scdr · Post by **scdr** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:21 pm

sm8000 wrote: That sounds good, where can I find out more about these adapters?

The whole point of this is not to replace the heatsink, but just the fan for the sake of a little bit of fun. If there isn't a suitable 60mm solution, then please tell me more about this 80-60 adapter - I've never heard of it and it sounds like it could really do the job well.

Just a plastic funnel with some screw mounting holes.
e.g.
http://www.coolerguys.com/840556017172.html

(They also have 80 to 92 or 80 to 120mm adapters.)

I have one of the 60 to 80 adapters for a Duron where the cpu fan died.

Before I got the commercial adapter, I did a DIY project using a square plastic juice bottle and a Zalman FB123 to make a 92 to 60mm adapter.

sm8000 · Post by **sm8000** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:22 pm

Thanks Felger Carbon, that looks like a nicer (and better priced) version of the one I linked. I will give that one a shot. Much appreciated.

sm8000 · Post by **sm8000** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:48 am

scdr wrote:
sm8000 wrote: That sounds good, where can I find out more about these adapters?

The whole point of this is not to replace the heatsink, but just the fan for the sake of a little bit of fun. If there isn't a suitable 60mm solution, then please tell me more about this 80-60 adapter - I've never heard of it and it sounds like it could really do the job well.
Just a plastic funnel with some screw mounting holes.
e.g.
http://www.coolerguys.com/840556017172.html

(They also have 80 to 92 or 80 to 120mm adapters.)

I have one of the 60 to 80 adapters for a Duron where the cpu fan died.

Before I got the commercial adapter, I did a DIY project using a square plastic juice bottle and a Zalman FB123 to make a 92 to 60mm adapter.

scdr, I didn't even notice your post until today

Thanks!