Quiet air cooling for an overclocked Socket A?

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KingPariah777

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Well, its that time of year again...time for me to look at my old machine and try to make it last until I cave in and buy a laptop.

Right now I have an old Coolermaster Aero 7+ on my CPU, and this mofo is LOUD and EMBARASSING.

All you can hear is that nasty thing whining away, and I feel its a matter of time before it dies.

Here is what I am seeing on Newegg...would you all take a look and give me a suggestion on something quiet, but strong enough to cool a 2500+ that is jacked up to 3200+ (2.2 mhz)?

Let me know what you think:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=ENE&N=2000110062+1294418667+1057708562&Subcategory=62&description=&srchInDesc=&minPrice=&maxPrice=
 
Not to hijack the thread, but I've got a Barton 2800+ running at stock speeds with an Aero 7 Lite cooler, and I'm having one hell of a time trying to keep this thing cool. CPU is idle now, and its creeping up from ~109 at boot, to 118 (48c) now. Ambient is ~80F. I might make my own thread, but I'm wondering how far above ambient your oc'd barton is running with that cooler at idle?

Again, sorry for the hijack.
 
vfrex said:
Not to hijack the thread, but I've got a Barton 2800+ running at stock speeds with an Aero 7 Lite cooler, and I'm having one hell of a time trying to keep this thing cool. CPU is idle now, and its creeping up from ~109 at boot, to 118 (48c) now. Ambient is ~80F. I might make my own thread, but I'm wondering how far above ambient your oc'd barton is running with that cooler at idle?

Again, sorry for the hijack.
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Get your own thread. Seriously. Along with a real cooler.



OP: SI-97 is a beautiful thing. I had three different mobile 2600s under there at 2.5GHz with a panaflo 90mm low speed. One of the best socket A sinks ever. HUGE but great.
 
Go for the Thermalright. If you want quiet you're going to need a bigger heatsink and fan, don't expect a 60mm to be quiet, you want >=92mm. And a lot of the cheap stuff you find on newegg work nice and quiet for stock, but when you oc the temps skyrocket, Don't know about the pricier stuff but I know Thermalright works.

EDIT:
Ok I just reread your post and saw only 2.2ghz... what's your vcore? In that case a cheap quiet one might do.
 
If you could find some way to mount a ninja cools well.

otherwise SI-97 is a good choice.
 
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