What temps can I expect from a Zalman9700?

[Sephiroth07za]

I will be buying a cpu cooler soon and would like to now on about what temperatures I will be running with the Zalman 9700..

I've got:

AMD Athlon x2 6000
Asus M2N SLI Deluxe
RaidMax Ninja Gaming Case

Thanx

 

[Sephiroth07za]

anybody care to reply and NOT JUST VIEW???????

 

[roadrunner197069]

Nope.

 

[Sephiroth07za]

I'm currently running on:

Idle:
42'c ------>CPU
32'c------->MB

Load:
56'c------>CPU
35-40--->MB

 

[Sephiroth07za]

LOL............punk

 

[Physicz]

who cares bout zalman

 

[Sephiroth07za]

zalwoman does

 

[ovaltineplease]

Uh ... good. Really depends a lot on your cable management and case fans as well.

I use a zalman 9700 but I use a e8400 intel, not an AMD x2. Regardless, i'm happy with it.

 

[Physicz]

nuff said

coolermaster ftw

 

[Sephiroth07za]

hehe

Okay thanx man, my cable management is realy bad.... but I will fix it eventualy

 

[ovaltineplease]

raidmax ninja gaming case is decent, but it has no top exhaust fan (antec 900=200mm huge mother of god exhaust fan above your cpu.)

that case also only has the 1 side mounted intake fan, no front intake fans because of the HD bays I guess.

Its not tooo bad of a case, but its probably not an overclocking case eh.

Does your PSU have a fan on the bottom to pull air away from your CPU? that helps a bit in that type of top mounted PSU design

 

[dallasjoh]

ambient temp=27c

idle
cpu=29c
mb=35

load
cpu=54c
mb=40c

See my rig in my sig below.

 

[Guest]

sephiroth... only people who have the zalman 9700 can answer... and people who don't still peak in to see what kind of questions you ask... so stop whining...

 

[Sephiroth07za]

Yeah it does, I love the look of the case but I do agree that the cooling could have been done better as well as the drive bays. It has only got mounts for 3 fans, and I'm running 5

 

[Sephiroth07za]

hehe, I know that, THAT IS WHY THE THREAD SAYS ZALMAN 9700 IN IT......

but ja, I'm sorry



dallasjoh: Would u recomend it??

 

[blackwidow_rsa]

You could google 'zalman 9700 review' and check if its good. I wanted to get one but the guys recommended some better ones for me. The 9700 still looks the best to me.

 

[Sephiroth07za]

okay thanx, good to see another RSA fellow in here. r u Afrikaans?

 

[blackwidow_rsa]

Ja, ek is lol

 

[jimmysmitty]

Here is a good example of what the 9700 can do. I have a Q6600 OCed to 3GHz. It runs at about 32c when its 80 in my house and when under 100% (Prime95) load on all 4 cores it may hit 55c.

So for yours it will keep it vey cool and happy.

 

[keithlm]

I use a Zalman 9700. But I use it with a Phenom 9850.

In a room at 22C (72F) it runs about 32C-34C at idle and at full load it goes all the way up to about 53C at the max peak. (NOTE: max temp is about the same at stock and overclocked to 2.8Ghz-2.9Ghz. The Zalman does a good enough job that you don't see a lot of difference. As it should.)

Of course that's with a sloppy arctic silver application. After messing around with comparing benchmarks of a X2-4800+ and the Phenom CPU, both at 2.5Ghz, I didn't completely clean and reapply the arctic silver the last time I swapped the CPUs. So the temps would probably go down a few degrees if I cleaned and reapplied.

When running the X2-4800+ the temperatures were in the same ballpark. I didn't really pay too much attention since I didn't overclock the 4800. (Just like I won't pay attention to the temperature after I get done playing around with overclocking the Phenom and just put it back to stock for normal use.)

 

[Guest]

^ sorry i'm complaining about complaining.. the height of hypocritical-ness

=D

 

[dragonsprayer]

9700 is great cooler with a good case with good air flow and when u do not need the maximum cooling found in thermalright or newer systems

as i posted for someone on THG

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/250728-28-xigmateck-thermalright-120mm-plastic-forgot

 

[Wisecracker]

bump

 

[Sephiroth07za]

Okay awsum, Thanx to all you guys for the advice!!!

I'll be sure to get some of that Arctic silver 5 thermal paste.


I'll post again when I get it.
Take care, and again thanx


O, en ons moet die engelse mense so bietjie Afrikaans leer, VIVA!!! //for the fellow RSA countryman

 

[jimmysmitty]

You know, I used the Zalman Thermal grease as it had a brush applicator and was easy to use. And I got those temps posted above. I guess AS5 would lower them a bit. But then again I am running mine at a very low voltage (1.225) compared to the stock (1.325).

Either way good luck with it. I am sure you will enjoy it and besides it looks so cool in a case with blue LED fans.