A Cooling Experience

Hi all,

The CPU fan that comes with A1XE looks pathetic. Looking for a new one is hard to turn up. What size "socket" or does anyone have any suggestions?

Chris

@QuikSanz

I use a zalman vf900, keeps it lovely and cool :)

@Curty

Wow, your a mind reader. That's the exact fan I have been eyeballing. Too bad its not 4 wire.

Thanks, at least I know now it will fit.

Chris

@QuikSanz

I put a Swiftech MCX159-CU in mine probaly about two years ago. It's been working great. It has a LARGE solid copper base with copper cooling pipes leading up to the cooling fan area. I had to trim one of the nylon nuts I used to mount it so it would clear surface mounted hardware on the CPU card.

Although, when I took out the original Sunon cooler, it was still working fine. Caveat: I also have 4 case fans and two oversize fans in the Antech power supply.

Paul

@QuikSanz


I use a "hybrid" of coolermaster (afair "blue ice") without the fan (small fans hum and vibrate) with zalman fb123 braket (with 90mm fan) blowing over the heatsink area. Thermal paste is AS5 (thanks to Raziel, who saved me from the shortage here when I was trying to buy sime).

some pics

Edit: similar setup reduces load (weight) on the module, and the big fan is very silent,

Jack

@Jack

Hi,

Creative mounting there but probably not quiet or efficient.

Chris

@Paul

That's should be a good cooler but I don't have that many fans in my tower. I don't really want to add more (loud) fans.

Chris

@QuikSanz

Jacks setup looks like mine. The big zallman is very quiet imho.

@QuikSanz

I used a Thermalright SI-97 heatpipe with a 92mm silent fan from Papst years ago:



See it here in action with some instruction for mounting.

Bye,
TMTisFree

@QuikSanz

The Zalman-123 allows the fan to be mounted to PCI bracket slots. My CoolerMaster C5 has a case port to the CPU and aligns with the fan. It's cool and quiet: 32 to 37 degrees celcius these winter days; 41 to 45 on summer days.

This was scrapped lately, but shows the fan& bracket:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11367727@N07/1287884906/

@QuikSanz

Quote:

On the contrary. 90mm fan beats the puny chipset fan noisewise.
And it is incredibly hot in here during the summer and all was well
And as I said, it's less weight on the socket/heatsink holders.
The stuff developed qiote annoying humm during couple of months. I modded the psu with quiet fan and it wasn't it. I oiled the cooler master and that was it. So I removed it in favour of zalman

@Jack

The case I'm using does have a fan on the side and it does blow on most of the board including that area.

I was just looking for one to replace the CPU fan, I don't really trust it. May get a smaller one for the Radeon too.

Chris

@QuikSanz

I use a Thermaltake Extreme Spirit II Northbridge cooler, which works well enough and quiet enough for me. However, I've been told that the zalman vf900 is more effective.

Hans

@Curty

I did need to replace the thumb nut screws that secure the cooler with smaller less pretruding ones if you know what i mean. But it runs very cool, very quiet and comes with an adjuster so you can alter the speed of the fan to suit.

@Curty

Actually thinking about a 3 maybe 4 channel fan controller w/ temperature probes and stuff to run at least the CPU, side case fan and maybe the one in the back. I have extra bays so, why not.

I really want to minimize the risk cause lets face it some A1's already have failed.

Chris