suggestion about cooling a fx-60

PC eye said:
The Zalman model at the link above has far more copper which transfers heat faster then a number of other coolers. When using AS5 on it the ide temps here are about 33C.
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yea, if only air had the heat conduction of any metal... which is why most companies make the fins out of aluminum, its lighter allowing for more surface area, the motherboard can't take a whole lot of weight.

btw i hear the tuniq tower 120 is the best on the market... paired with a high cfm 120mm fan...
picture:
http://www.tomshardware.pl/cpu/20050607/images/tuniq_tower.jpg
chart of benchmarks:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/coolers/tuniq-tower120/image005.png
 
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fade2green514 said:
yea, if only air had the heat conduction of any metal... which is why most companies make the fins out of aluminum, its lighter allowing for more surface area, the motherboard can't take a whole lot of weight.

btw i hear the tuniq tower 120 is the best on the market... paired with a high cfm 120mm fan...
picture:
http://www.tomshardware.pl/cpu/20050607/images/tuniq_tower.jpg
chart of benchmarks:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/coolers/tuniq-tower120/image005.png
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The mother board can't take a lot of weight? The Zalman model there is their largest and isn't any heavier then some of the aluminum based coolers. Besides the heat tubes copper transfers heat faster. After running HL2 Episode One for hours the board temp was at 33C with cpu temp at 34C. The 92mm fan helps get air moving around inside the case. What sees lower board temps also will see lower cpu temps.

In the old case with only two 80mm fans, one at the top opening, the other rear exhaust, the board temp ran higher then the cpu's at 48C after all night use. In the new case with three 120mm and a 140mm front intake the ide temp of the board often sits at 31C with 38C max running multimedia. When the board was down at 31C the cpu saw 32C or 33C idle.
 
PC eye said:
The mother board can't take a lot of weight? The Zalman model there is their largest and isn't any heavier then some of the aluminum based coolers. Besides the heat tubes copper transfers heat faster. After running HL2 Episode One for hours the board temp was at 33C with cpu temp at 34C. The 92mm fan helps get air moving around inside the case. What sees lower board temps also will see lower cpu temps.

In the old case with only two 80mm fans, one at the top opening, the other rear exhaust, the board temp ran higher then the cpu's at 48C after all night use. In the new case with three 120mm and a 140mm front intake the ide temp of the board often sits at 31C with 38C max running multimedia. When the board was down at 31C the cpu saw 32C or 33C idle.
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there isn't a whole lot of copper on that cooler, i own it... i would know... its performance is sub-par and i mirrored the finish on the bottom of the heatsink and on the cpu's IHS... that tuniq tower will give him 10C less during a full load... the charts show

that heatsink looks big but the surface area on it was a lot less than i expected... and the copper fins dont help in comparison with the aluminum ones because the airs heat conduction is what matters most, and therefore, the one with the most surface area and a copper base, will win.
 
fade2green514 said:
there isn't a whole lot of copper on that cooler, i own it... i would know... its performance is sub-par and i mirrored the finish on the bottom of the heatsink and on the cpu's IHS... that tuniq tower will give him 10C less during a full load... the charts show

that heatsink looks big but the surface area on it was a lot less than i expected... and the copper fins dont help in comparison with the aluminum ones because the airs heat conduction is what matters most, and therefore, the one with the most surface area and a copper base, will win.
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The Zalman has a copper like the Scythe seen at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835185018 But what happens when a fan quits on the aluminum Scythe? Try the 85C that cooked the last cpu. With a max load on the cpu now the temp still remains below the normal operating range for the model cpu here. I didn't have to sand anything down either.
 
well i ordered an arctic cooling freezer 7 for my core 2 duo processor but the fag has given me a freezer 64 pro.

its says it does all fx processors on the box...
its also a really good fan even if its not the most expensive, so why bother changing it.
 
You can always break it.

I would still suggest a XP-120 style heatsink. Rather than having the fan blowing alongside the motherboard, and relying on the heatpipes alone (e.g. the Zalman that was just linked), an XP-120 style sink usually has a larger fan blowing directly down. So, removes heat from the fins AND the base plate directly touching the CPU, and cools the surrounding memory and motherboard. And, more airflow = lower temps.

EDIT: Did a shoddy paint pic to try and explain what the hell I'm talking about.

 
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I couldn't help clearing the picture up a little. I have the Zalman with the blue led that just seems to remove the need for a vpu cooler on the Radeon model here. But what really helps even more is having the larger case fans moving much more cooler air throughout the case!
 
If you want a temp. like mines then i suggest you get a fan like mines.

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The original Pentium Pro wasn't that large at all. You are talking about a I586 type cpu there. The P4s were the ones that saw the stepped up stock temps. The thing is that the older AMD and Intels saw 1.65-1.7v while the newer models are less power consuming at the 1.4v level. To see a temp at only 20C suggests that was the benchmark when the system was first started. The cpu wasn't upto the normal operating temp at that point.
 
sHoW StOpPeR said:
Well I installed this myself and i cant seem the remember the name of the fan. How can I look it up?
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If you post a jpg file or drawing with paint maybe someone will recognise it right away. Did you save the original packing or do you know the model number? A look over of coolers at two different vendors would probably be the fastest way to spot the model you have there.
http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/SubCategory.asp?showmore=250&SubCategory=62

http://www.xoxide.com/cpucoolers.html
 
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