Best bang for my buck. Heatsink and fan....

[mpcamer1220]

K. I need something, I'm bored with my stock heatsink, with the summer here, its VERY hard to get it past 2.7 ghz and have it stay on for more than 5 minutes.

Keep in mind I have about 80 dollars or so to spend on a heatsink, fan, raid card and longer ide cables.

I want to get it from Xoxide to save on shipping since I will get my ide cables there.. 36 inch costs the same as all the other sizes, plus the XP-90 is cheaper than there at Newegg..

The XP-120 won't fit on my mobo iirc so with that taken into consideration and the fact that i have about $80, maybe $90 if I stretch it for all of those things.... http://www.xoxide.com/amdcpucooler.html whats the best bang for my buck from there. I also want a powerful/loud fan too :p

I would probally just get the XP-90, but they don't have it in stock atm, so I was wondering if any others were just as good... Also, just how good is Artic Silver 5, whats so special/different about it than regular Artic Silver? Right now I just have some cheap crap from Radio Shack that cost like $2....


Thanks in advanced!


Edit - also the XP-90c is out of stock too... Kinda expensive too since I have more to buy, is there any place that has them cheaper?


Edit 2 - might get it from SVC since its cheaper..

[SpoogeMonkey]

Out of that list I would go with the xp-90 or the zalman 7700 since the xp-120 won't fit. Loud powerful fan, get a 92mm Vantec Tornado....that oughta make yer ears bleed :D

[mpcamer1220]

I was thinking about a Tornado... I like to know when its working right :cool: :D

[mpcamer1220]

K, I'm about to order :D


AS5 $6
http://www.svc.com/as5-3g.html

XP-90 $25
http://www.svc.com/xp-90-21.html

Vantec Tornado $14
http://www.svc.com/td9238h.html

119 cfm 56.4 dba, can anyone find a better fan??

And of course two of these http://www.svc.com/rc36hd2-uvs-yel.html


Am I missing anything? Thanks for the help.

[DR_K13]

Panaflows are :cool:

[_Korruption_]

The best-value heatsink right now would be the Thermalright XP-90, hands down.

A Tornado though... :o

[mpcamer1220]

Heh, it has decent airflow and I like loud noises, just not from harddrives :p

I guess I'll get ordering pretty soon, I hope I can overclock more now :cool:

[Hurin]

Only get the tornado if you have a fan controller that can throttle it down or you like teh sound of a hair dryer coming from your computer at all times.

For $12, I decided I'd get the tornado 92mm. But, in case it was too loud, I also got a Panaflo 92mm. I tried the tornado on my XP-90C. It was good. . . but its high-pitched whining (even at slower speeds) irritated me a bit. So I swapped it out for the Panaflo (48cfm 2450RPM 38db). Temps went up about 2 degrees. But it's worth it because it's nearly silent at full throttle.

Temps with 48cfm 2450RPM Panaflo on XP-90C w/ AS5. X2 4400+ @ stock speeds:
24c/76f room temp
30c "motherboard temp"
32c CPU Idle
43-44c CPU Dual-Prime95

[el rolio]

yea xp-90 on the neo2 is great. random question: why do you need a raid card?

[RedChief]

Any suggestions for a SocketA (AthlonXP 2500@3200)? The chip currently pushes 60c running Prime95.

[travbrad]

Only get the tornado if you have a fan controller that can throttle it down or you like teh sound of a hair dryer coming from your computer at all times.

Yeah, 56dba is insanely loud. That's about as loud as someone having a conversation, so basically everything you hear in that room (like games, music, movies, etc) will be drowned out. I had a 47dba fan (about 1/10th as loud as that tornado) and it was really loud. You could hear it from the other end of my house.

[Tiny]

Any suggestions for a SocketA (AthlonXP 2500@3200)? The chip currently pushes 60c running Prime95.

SI-97 by Thermalright.

[RedChief]

Thanks. I'll try and find one of those tomorrow (hopefully Central Comp in Newrk has). I need to do something about my older server while I'm at it. Its and older Palamino 1800 and its idle at 65c+.....

[mpcamer1220]

yea xp-90 on the neo2 is great. random question: why do you need a raid card?
Set up some more harddrives... And I know the Tornado is loud, but I like it that way for some reason :p

[daedal]

Might just be personnal opinion here but if you board supports the XP-120, you should go with that as the fans you can stick on there are larger and therefore produce less of a high-pitched whining sound compared to an 80mm.This is especially true if you're going for a high-CFM, high-db fan. Just a thought. :)