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Whisper quiet Socket A cooler?

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I am currently trying to silence my case, and my current cooler is too loud for my tastes. Any recommendations? No WC, sorry :)
 
thermalright SI-97 heatsink and the quietest fan you care to put on it.

panasonic H1B 92mm fan and controller OR panasonic L1B 92mm fan and a fan controller OR perhaps the nexus real silent and no controller.

the panasonic H1B at 5 volts will probably be about as quiet as the nexus at full, which is to say nearly inaudible, and have the capacity to go a bit faster when you have some background noise happening. the "BX" series panaflo fans have RPM sensing, so you can set you bios to power off your computer if the fan ever accidently stops, for safty reasons.

failing that, zalman 700B AlCu, for somthing that is almost as good, and you can port over to your next system, if you like.
 
L1x, M1x, H1x, U1x --> low speed, medium speed, high speed, ultra high speed

quietest to loudest, worst performance to best performance.
 
Thank you; to both of you. I think I may go with the SI-97 along with the nexus real silent. I'll post my temps and give my reactions to the sound level once I get all that stuff ordered and up and running :)
 
Zalman 92mm at 5V (included resistor) is absolutely silent- I put my ear right against when I first got my XP90 and I literally couldn't hear it- I just felt a little bit of buzzing from the frame in my hand.

Another vote for the SI-97.
 
mavalpha said:
Zalman 92mm at 5V (included resistor) is absolutely silent- I put my ear right against when I first got my XP90 and I literally couldn't hear it- I just felt a little bit of buzzing from the frame in my hand.

Another vote for the SI-97.
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I will take the Zalman into consideration also. But I am leaning more to the Nexus. Both have very similar specs but the Nexus moves alot more air (~7 CFM) at 20 dB. But I must also take into consideration, that I could buy 4 Zalman fans for the price of one Nexus :rolleyes:
 
I just installed my Zalman 7000AlCu, and it's dead quiet. One this that you should look out for when chosing a cooler is that is doesn't exceed the maximum weight for the socket; any more than 300g on a socket A board and you run the risk of, over time, warping the board.
 
DamienThorn said:
I just installed my Zalman 7000AlCu, and it's dead quiet. One this that you should look out for when chosing a cooler is that is doesn't exceed the maximum weight for the socket; any more than 300g on a socket A board and you run the risk of, over time, warping the board.
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thats if it connects via the clips onto the socket. it doesnt apply to zalman's mounting method.
 
lithium726 said:
thats if it connects via the clips onto the socket. it doesnt apply to zalman's mounting method.
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yes, it does apply.

zalman uses a similar method to thermalright, and my thermalrigt warped my old board quite nicely.
 
interesting. that thing musta been really heavy to put enough pressure on four different points and warp the board...
 
lithium726 said:
interesting. that thing musta been really heavy to put enough pressure on four different points and warp the board...
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i guess that i will have to ammend that slightly: the thermalright retention system is more similar to the zalman a64 retention mechanism than it is to the zalman socket A retention system.

through bolts and a backer plate, thermalright SP-97, 585g heatsink plus 198 g fan.

lots of people use these without problems. a few, including myself, have had warping problems.
 
I have a Thermalright SP-97 with a Panaflo High 92mm sucking from it (yeah, sucking... 1-2 degrees cooler in my case), and it's a wonderfull cooling combo too. Of course, the Panaflo isn't completely silent, but dig the CPU temps:

(ambient is a 3rd story apartment, ~20, 21 Celcius, 2 WD hard disks in the case, 1 Vantec "Stealth" 80mm exhaust fan in back. PSU is a triple-fan Vantec "Stealth".)

Barton 2500+ @ 2.2 ghz, 1.8V :D
Idle: 42 Celcius average
Load: 46-47 Celcius

Mobile 2600+ @ 2.5ghz, 1.65V
Idle: 39 Celcius average
Load: 44 Celcius

I guess a slower fan would yield higher temps, but not by much.

I've never tried the SI-97 though, but it looks nice too. :cool:
 
one thing to remember about the zalman is that because of the way it's shaped, it provides airflow to nearby components. if you put your hand on the side of the heatsink, you can feel moving air, which helps to cool off the northbridge, and possibly memory to some degree. if you're looking for quiet, you might be able to replace an active northbridge cooler with a passive one because of the airflow provided by the heatsink. this would cut down on another noise source, and fix a problem before it happens (because northbridge fans seem to last about 10 minutes before failing and becoming loud)
 
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