Looking for a quiet HSF

[k-space]

A friend of mine just game me an old Athlon 2500+ and MB to use as a simple file server. The problem is he has a 3rd party HSF on it that sounds like a jet engine. I'm not going to overclock the chip or do anything fancy with the machine so I'd really like to find the quietest HSF unit I can. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Dane R. Vinson

 

[joemama]

Arctic Cooling Freezer 64pro....cheap, good performance, near silent. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835185125

 

[foxnews]

if you want quiet and performance, get Scythe Ninja and 120mm Nexus fan. scroll the the bottom and see the rating. Ninja is only second after the Thermalright Ultra-120, which is not as silent.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article30-page1.html

 

[NickN]

Neither the Ninja nor the Freezer64 will work with the OP's Athlon 2500. The only Athlon 2500s ever made were Socket A.

 

[k-space]

Yeah its a socket A chip.
On a side note however my main machine has a Ninja installed on a Opteron 165. That HS kicks total a$$... athough it just about didn't fit in the case.

 

[gesicht]

if the heatinks is large just put a quite fan on it.

 

[_Korruption_]

http://www.jab-tech.com/ThermalRight-SI-97A-pr-2999.html
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http://www.jab-tech.com/Panaflo-92mm-L1B-FBA09A12L1BX-pr-2608.html

There's not much in the way of Socket A anymore. What motherboard is it exactly? Maybe you can get away with one of the Zalman flowers provided you have mounting holes and enough space around the CPU.

 

[joemama]

oops...didn't notice the socket A. The SI-97A linked above with a good silent 92mm fan should work nicely though.

 

[Zero82z]

I had an SP-94 on my old Celeron 2.4GHz and it did a pretty good job at cooling it with a quiet Panaflo fan. It should do nicely.

 

[_Korruption_]

I had an SP-94 on my old Celeron 2.4GHz and it did a pretty good job at cooling it with a quiet Panaflo fan. It should do nicely.

If you read the original post, he says Socket A.

 

[Zero82z]

I know, but the SP-97 is the same as the SP-94, aside from a different mounting system.

 

[dchrsf]

That HS will keep my 3200+ at 50c max load with a 1600rpm 92mm, so you could easily put that fan at 5v and be fine.