Heatsink

The Tuniq cooler is made up of aluminun fins while the 9700 is far more copper which actually works far better for throwing off heat. Sometimes if you look around a bit you can find a deal on the Zalman 9700 or Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro.

I pass on Scythe sorry! When the old Socket A build here had one the fan simply quit seeing the cpu run at 74C and reach the 85C max before I could get the Zalman 7000b replacement in. Fortunately it was the board itself eating batteries and not the cpu backclocking itself recently when seeing it run normally again with a fresh battery.

The 7000b is a circular hsf for the older Socket A board that also cools well for the same price as seen with the Freezer 7 Pros lately. If you're going to spend $50+ go for the 9700 and you will see some good results simply using Artic Silver 5 or even MX-2 some have been advising lately. For a tight budget the Freezer 7 Pro is favored there.
 
PC eye said:
The Tuniq cooler is made up of aluminun fins while the 9700 is far more copper which actually works far better for throwing off heat. Sometimes if you look around a bit you can find a deal on the Zalman 9700 or Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro.

I pass on Scythe sorry! When the old Socket A build here had one the fan simply quit seeing the cpu run at 74C and reach the 85C max before I could get the Zalman 7000b replacement in. Fortunately it was the board itself eating batteries and not the cpu backclocking itself recently when seeing it run normally again with a fresh battery.

The 7000b is a circular hsf for the older Socket A board that also cools well for the same price as seen with the Freezer 7 Pros lately. If you're going to spend $50+ go for the 9700 and you will see some good results simply using Artic Silver 5 or even MX-2 some have been advising lately. For a tight budget the Freezer 7 Pro is favored there.
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Freezer Pro 7 is regarded as one of the best bang for the buck right now, but Scyth is dominating the silent market, which is what his friends want. You can't really run a Freezer Pro 7 passive, the fins are too close together :cool:.
 
I would rather see a copper finned sink in over one made of aluminum especially with any plans on ocing! Besides the hsf used don't forget that keeping board temps down will play the most important part.

If a case lacks good air flow and board temps climb so does the cpu's as well. Then it won't matter what hsf you have on.
 
I know copper is better as well, that's why I wanted to get a copper one so I don't need an incredibly powerful and noisy fan to help cool a CPU with aluminum.

I think I'm set on this arctic cooler, so end of discussion I guess.
 
Due to shipping on the 9700 here the fan motor was pushed back a little into the array where one of the fan blades got caught up on the array itself. That was seen on the current build when going to start it up for the first time seeing a 107C temp!

Upon first seeing Windows up and PC Wizard on I just happened to reach over and feel how much heat was coming up and shut everything down. The tip of one fan blade was found stuck and I gave the motor a slight push to correct that one.

The copper array is what kept the cpu from getting the brunt of that one! Upon looking at the temps once that was done those were found under 30C. On an older build when the fan went the temps soared having been an aluminum model there.

When going for one with a fan not the fanless type look for a good one just in case the fan decides to go on you. As you can see I found that out fast enough since the old Socket A model on the build could take the high temps but any newer Intel or AMD model? :eek:
 
PC Eye, do you have msn or anything? I have some computer questions to ask, don't want to make tons of posts, and you seem like the guy to ask.
 
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