Case cooling.

[jumpship]

@whabang

I have tried temp controlled fans and they aren't all they have cracked upto be. I found the one I had soon ran at full speed oncee the system had got to its working temp (about 25°c or so) which kinda makes the whole point of them useless.

What size fan do you have on your CPU?

[whabang]

No idea, 2x40mm, perhaps...

[jumpship]

Ahh

You can get convertors (sorry can't think where at the moment, will look into it tho) that will convert a 40mm to 60/80mm. So rather then having one (or in your case 2) fans running a 5000rpm and shifting 20CFM you could have an 80mm running at 2000rpm and still shift 20CFM. (please note these figures are only guestimates!!) But the main thing is you can maintain air flow, while cutting down on noise.

[jumpship]

This is the sort of thing I mean:
http://www.frozencpu.com/cgi-bin/frozencpu/duc-08.html

[whabang]

Yeah, I know.
I'll have to look into it next payday... :-D

[Blomberg]

jumpship wrote:
This is the sort of thing I mean:
http://www.frozencpu.com/cgi-bin/frozencpu/duc-08.html

Add a Papst case cooler to that and I think you have a pretty quiet system (12db) - if it moves enough air, that is.

[amigamad]

I have a copper coolermaster heatsink and fan which is the one that is desighned for overclocking this had a 6800 rpm 60mm fan on it it was noisy although after a while you get used to it, but i bought an akasa 60mm to 80mm adaptor. Unscrewed old fan fitted this and a ystech 80mm 3000rpm fan which seems to run at 3400 rpm this is more eficient and a bit quiter of course its a bit difrent with a slot 1 amd cpu i would try a bigger fan if posible not sure what other options for slot one most place sell socket a now.



i just found these heatsinks and fans for slot a, might be better than what you have overclockingstore

[mikeymike]

I'm running an Athlon XP 1800+ (1.5GHz), CPU temp is on average 55C, maximum 61C.  If the CPU works stabily at a temperature, don't attempt to 'fix it'.  Just make sure airflow is good out of the case so that the temperature of the CPU is affecting other components as little as possible.

(dual fan PSU, single fan on CPU heatsink@ 5.8K RPM, it would be nicer if it were quieter, but not unbearable)