Recommend a CPU cooler please :)

ant31

Boy! I need someone to make a decision for me

I'm after a new fan for a socket 754 Athlon XP3200+

It needs to be as quiet as possible and effective and come in under £25.

Any recommendations..there just seems to be so many!

Weymouth_Man

ant31 wrote:

Boy! I need someone to make a decision for me

I'm after a new fan for a socket 754 Athlon XP3200+

It needs to be as quiet as possible and effective and come in under £25.

Any recommendations..there just seems to be so many!

Hope this link helps ? :beer:

https://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/dirresults.html?s=cpu+fans

ant31

ta for that.. I was hoping for more of a personal recommendation by any modders or similar.
There just seems so many for that price and wanted to narrow the field down

wolfman

The Thermalright XP-90 is one of the best heatsinks around. It's very efficient, and not too heavy being made from aluminium (there's a copper version too but it's very heavy).

You then buy a silent 80mm fan seperately, which mounts onto the heatsink.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Thermalright_120.html

The combined price of an 80mm fan and the XP-90 will go over your £25 limit though.

One of the Zalman's might be worth looking at.

Nomee

I had one of the Zalman cooling solutions and it was awesome but its better to check the noise level before you buy.

Ganyam

Extremely Quiet
The further development of the Copper Silent 2 80mm fan means even lower noise levels. This is due to the fan positioning on 4 rubber feet which forbids any possible noise vibrations and the optimized for aerodynamics fan blades. The large 80mm fan allows, (compared to smaller fans) for better cooling performance at lower rotation speed. The result is less noise and at the same time longer life.

Powerful Cooling
The 10 mm thick Aluminium bottom plate allows for good heat dissipation, the large surface area for optimal heat transfer to air. This allows for sufficient cooling even for high clocked Athlon 64 and Opteron CPU's

Easy Installation
Using two screws the cooler can be mounted quickly and easily.

Low Profile
Thanks to the reverse hung fan the relevant height for the air flow can be kept to a low 56mm.

Long Service Life
Low rotation speed and Syntec Bearing allows the "Silencer 64" a long service life.

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/cpu2.php?idx=30&disc=

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=74453

ant31

Thank you folks.. I'll have a look at these two. Help much appreciated.