Whats the best fan/heatsink for AthlonXP 2200??

two words...
stock fan

<b>Who fixed <font color=red>ATI</font color=red>'s leaky faucet??</b>

Yes it is

<b>(<font color=yellow>as good as it looks</font color=yellow> )</b>

ive mailed the manufacturers of cooler master HHC-001 wich heatsink is made entirely of copper, to be sure its athlonxp 2200 compliant. How much noise in DB is a "helicopter sound"??? this one seems to be at 40db at maximum speed

I've been reading some reviews and it sounds like other brands are just as loud (Thermaltake & Cooler Master). The AMD retail fan is running at 5300 RPMs and the CPU is at 57C. Everything seems OK. Still looking for a quieter fan though....

Yeah, your right, I just upgraded from a PII 333Mz. And damn what a difference! It's nice to acctually run new games!

I really like my heatsink, a Global Win CAK-II 38, about $28 US, and a tube of Arctic Silver III, about $7 US. $35 for ya

"When there's a will, there's a way."

there are no miracles in Physics. most is the air flow, most the HSF is efficient & cools well but most it is noisy.

mostly you have to choice between a silent HSF with an average cooling or a slight noisy HSF which cools better. here is the choice.


<i>if you know you don't know, the way could be more easy ...</i>

some precisions & some specs about high cooling HSF.

Swiftech MCX462-U (newer heatsink model)
4900RPM 22CFM/14dBa/57.9°C 40CFM/30dBa/49.1°C <b>69CFM</b>/49dBa/44.9°C - stock version
(tested Processor: AMD® Athlon® XP 2000 overclocked to 1760MHz@1.85v)

Alpha PAL8045 3800RPM 40dBA 80x80x20mm 46.1CFM - stock version

Delta High Output 80x38mm 4900RPM <b>68.5CFM</b> 48.5dBA (Model: FFB0812SHE)
Vantec Tornado Super High Output 80x80x38mm 5700RPM <b>84.1CFM</b> 55.2dBA (Model: TD80038H)

Sunon Low Output 80x25mm 2.1watt 2900RPM 36CFM 32dBA
Sunon High Output 80x25mm 2.5watt 3200RPM 42CFM 36.5dBA
Sunon Super High Output 80x25mm 4.3watt 3500RPM 50.6CFM 40.6dBA (model KD1208PTBX)

<pre>recall: there are no miracles in Physics. most is the air flow, most the HSF is efficient & cools well but most it is noisy.</pre><p>

<i>if you know you don't know, the way could be more easy ...</i>

yes it is sufficient for your cpu if you don't plans to overclock it. just a bit noisy with a 38 dBA for this kind of utlization. you can find some HSF round 30 dBA fitting your need.


<i>if you know you don't know, the way could be more easy ...</i>

Ok thanks.

Heh, at least we agree on the 8045's.

not necessarily wasted as:
it really comes down to total CFM's delivered. a properly built duct could be used to nozzle the air pushed by a large, high CFM, low RPM fan and create a high pressure zone directly on the heatsink similar to an 80mm but ultra high speed fan. The advantage is the low speed, but large fan is much quieter than it's high speed smaller equivalent.

Perhaps more importantly, proper ducting would allow air from outside the case to blow on the heatsink rather than air from within the case.

PS yes, I know virtually nothing about air nozzle design, but it doesn't mean I won't try to figure it out when the time comes.

Hmm, that makes sense. I had planned on getting the torquiest deep fan I could fine. I hadn't considered that the backpressure might cause extra sound though.

Maybe I should expect to experiment for a while before finding that perfect combo. Unfortunately, my actual pneumatics knowledge leaves very much to be desired, so I can't just prove the concept to myself with fancy equations or anything.

Thanks for your thoughts and time.

even non overclocked processors will benefit from better cooling. they will last longer. But hey, silence can be good at times, no denying that. I just would like to have it all, silence and top notch air cooling.

I was just debating in the pursuit of knowledge, and not to try and one up the man, although it may not have come across like that. But I think Matisaro understands that. The benefit for me doing this is: he raised a good point, which has caused me to do some rethinking, not always a bad thing to do.

It's kind of ironic, but the real noise problems in my system are not caused by the fans but hard drives spinning at ungodly high RPM's.