Quietest and most efficient cooler

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irt2

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im getting ready to upgrade my cooling system and i was wondering what you all thought. what would be the most efficient, quietest cpu cooling setup (short of water based cooling) for an amd socket 754 machine? im looking to keep my cpu as cool as possible where the fan needs to be SILENT. water based cooling is just too expensive.

thanks

Ian
 
I use an Artic Cooler 64. It works fine with my socket 939 and I think it would fit a 754, or they might have a model for that socket. It's a beast, but it's very quiet. I even heard of some people using it without the fan. Not like the fan makes much noise. Max revs is around 1600RPMs!
 
You say "not water based cooling", whats wrong with it. Its almost 100% reliable when set up correctly and it is by far the most efficient cooling system on the market. You can get a decent one for £80.

I dont see why you are casting it aside when people havent given their views on it yet?
 
irt2 said:
im getting ready to upgrade my cooling system and i was wondering what you all thought. what would be the most efficient, quietest cpu cooling setup (short of water based cooling) for an amd socket 754 machine? im looking to keep my cpu as cool as possible where the fan needs to be SILENT. water based cooling is just too expensive.

thanks

Ian
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note the final sentance.... he doesn't want to pay that much money :)
 
buy some 120 mm fans and then run them at half speed by using a fan controller. Or you can do that same with 80mms. Fan controllers only cost around 17 bucks and fans are really cheap.
 
i swear on my CoolerMaster dual storm cooler. its a 80mm Fan, used as a uprgade fan for a heatsing you probably have. :)
 
How fast the fan spins has very little to do with how much air it pushes...

Oh, and FYI, I have an old $14 cooler who's fan spun at around 6000RPMs... and it was crap :P
 
Damn you, i was just about to say that. I really should learn to type faster. So, basically i agree with what he just said.
 
How fast the fan spins has very little to do with how much air it pushes...
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Why wouldn't it? If you've got two same sized fans and one is at 2000RPM and the other is at 4000RPM, the latter will more than likely be pushing more air. Now if you were to compare an 80mm to a 120mm fan, that'd be a different story.
 
whats the best 80mm fan that i can get with alot of CFM, anyone have a link?
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the trouble with that is you're gonna get very loud... you could always try a vantec tornado... super high CFM... very very loud... i had one installed but it started to do my head in after 30 minutes.... just google for it, plenty of links around
 
Lol

Yeah...RPMs are not always a great indicator of performance. It's also based on the actual design of the fan blades and the construction of the fan itself. Even thhough higher RPMs mean greater performance when using one sample, the advantages decrease. You then end up with a simmilar performance to lower RPMs and a significantly higher noise.

JAN :D
 
It's also based on the actual design of the fan blades and the construction of the fan itself.
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That I can agree with... I just wanted to point out that RPMs are not insignificant.
 
dragon2309 said:
I'm 16 and im always skint, im still buying water cooling though....
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you obviously dont have the same priorities as me, such as i need to buy FOOD before i buy computer stuff :D
 
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