Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775)

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I have Core2Duo 2.13mhz CPU with an ASROCK 4CoreDual mobo and the stock cooler makes a bit of a racket. So I bought the cooler in the title above, installed it (was a bit fiddly) and was looking forward to peace and quite.

IT WAS NOISER!!!


Anyone got any ideas how to make it quieter? I have looked in the BIOS to see if there is anything but nope. It wakes the wife at night when she is asleep and I am playing me games…

Not even sure if it is any cooler I am getting temps of 32˚.
 
Pnemonic

Thnx 4 the reply, I have already got speed fan and tried that but it didn't seem to work. But then again I am not that familiar with it. Guess I ma gonna have to experiment:rolleyes:
 
Sounds like the fan is in duty cycle mode or similiar - you only need it that fast at 3.6+gig... your BIOS should have options for the fan with settings for duty cycle, power managed, etc. if not (and it wouldn't suprises me with Asrock) thats a kinda poor BIOS.
 
There's an option in the BIOS, under H/W Monitor I think, CPU Quiet Fan: Disabled. Set to Enabled (obviously) and a sub-option appears that allows you to set the threshold at which it should speed up.
 
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OK -

1. Make sure it's seated properly. Considering how stupidly simple the Intel S775 retention method is I can't believe how many issues I see with pin-fastened coolers not being seated correctly. For some reason lots of people think you should turn the pin to lock it in place:confused:.

With the AC Freezer 7 Pro it's best to pop the fan off (it's just the two clips at the side) as that gives you loads of room to push down on the clips.

Also - you hopefully didn't scrape off the paste from the bottom (because everyone thinks that they know better than AC and you only need a pea-sized blob, don't you?)

2. Plug the Fan into the 4-pin CPU header

3. In the BIOS - find the H/W Monitor Section and set the Quiet Fan option to [Enabled]

4. If the CPU fan is still too loud, go back into the BIOS and adjust the temperature limit all the way up to 65C. This freaks some people out as the fan can stop completely;)
 
Wow! Thanks for all the tips chaps.

WJA96 I can assure you that I didn't scrape any of the paste off and it is definitely seated correctly and not vibrating :) I did examine those pins though and they do lock once you have popped them them in. The confusing bit is the arrows which show you the direction to twist the pins to remove them.

It does seem like a poor BIOS though since there isn't much in there for me to overclock the machine. But this board was a bridging tool between AGP/DDR to PCI-e/DDR2 which has worked very nicely.

Might not be long before I get a better mobo or even a quadcore, although I think if I go quad I will need even better cooling.
 
WJA96

Well I have adjusted the BIOS to set the temp to 65C and saved and exited, doesn't seem to be spinning any slower...

According to Speed Fan it is running at 2637 rpm, according to the box it should be running from 900-2500 rpm - have I got a duff fan?
 
No, just a duff way of controlling it so it's always running at full speed. If the mobo has a 4-pin header for the fan, the BIOS should let you set the fan control to PWM. If it's only a 3-pin header (which seems very unlikely) then you should be able to set it to voltage control.
 
They are definitely noisy at full speed, that is for sure ! Mine runs at full speed when my QX6700 is under full load on all 4 cores (which is basically all the time). The PWM does work though in my ASUS board, it does slow down when the CPU rarely goes to idle. I'm going to be replacing it with a Thermalright. But for your Core2 Duo at a little over 2GHz, if you get PWM working it should cool that CPU at an inaudible 1000 rpm or less
 
Well, it is definately plugged into the four pin socket and round the right way. I am thinking the BIOS needs updating? It is only version 1 and ASROCK do say don't update the BIOS unless you really have to... :confused:
 
Check to see what updates are available. It should tell you what the updates have, er updated.
 
Mine isn't... but I'm running an E6600 @ 3.6gig and taking quite a bit of voltage to get there (1.522 actual, 1.58625 in bios) so I leave it on max speed...
 
Mine seems to spin strangely sometimes and make a lot of noise. I've got it running full speed all the time and it's mainly silent, other times I'll get a rather random hour of whooshing.
 
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