I'm thinking about these, which are all within my price range for buying three of one or maybe one of all three...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835150010 (MASSCOOL WhisperRock II 5F263B1M3 80mm Ball Cooling Fan/Heatsink - Retail)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835151120 (Spire SPA04S4-U WhisperRock V CPU Cooler - Retail)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835166032 (Spire 5F271B1L3 80mm Ball CPU Cooling Fan/Heatsink for Socket A - Retail FalconRock II)
http://www.directron.com/cnps3100.html (Zalman CNPS-3100 Plus CPU Cooler)
Anyone have any thoughts or experience with these listed above? They all have the virture of being currently available, whereas some of the ones listed in older Socket 370 threads are no longer available. Additionally, they're all less than $20. (I'm going to need three of these.)
Anyone have any thoughts as to whether I could safely run one of the above in either the SMP box or the UP box without the fan running at all?
The SMP box is in an AOpen H700A case. The UP box is a generic case with only the PSU fan.
Actually, the full setup, since airflow matters on a fanless setup:
H700A:
2 x P3 733MHz Coppermine CPUs
4 x WD 120GB ATA disks in the drive cage above the PSU
1 x Quantum 30GB 3.5" ATA disk in two bay floppy cage
1 x Seagate 18GB SCSI SCA disk in two bay SCA hotwap, bottom two 5.25" bays
1 x CD-ROM, top 5.25" bay
1 x Coolmax 400W 120mm fan PSU with air intake facing CPUs
2 x 8cm fans (side by side) immediately behind the four disk drive cage
2 x 8cm fans (vertically aligned) above the expansion slots
The PCI video card has no fan. The mainboard chipset has no fan. Many flat ATA cables run from a 3Ware controller to the upper drive cage. It's an airflow mess. I suppose I could self strip the cables. I should Google that.
Celeron 333MHz box:
1 x generic PSU 300W; fan mounted facing outside, inlet on bottom of PSU facing CPU
1 x Celeron 333MHz CPU (not overclocked, I'd like to try to underclock it)
1 x 4GB IBM SCSI in floppy bay
No fans on the mainboard chipset or old video card. No CD-ROM. The current HSF is some cheap thing that's noisy.
Thoughts?
Thanks.
