Operation shut that stock cooler up

stulid · 25 May 2010 at 19:53

with all the hot weather lately, and due in the near future, i have been increasingly drawn to what an annoying sound the stock AMD cooler is on my 955BE, its not just annoying, it positively screams!

So with this in mind i set about today to shut it up for good.

part1, buy a suitable cooler, this will do- http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-009-TI&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395

must say its huge, never realized it was this big.

thank the lord for these cut outs in the motherboard tray, on goes the backplate.

insert the screws and the bolts with the little white washers

after applying some Artic silver5, its time to put the actual cooler on.

had to move the ram sticks to the next bank.

attach the fan.

slide the motherboard tray back into the case, sit back and relax

after powering back up, its time to see the results, keep in mind the thermal paste has now got to cure.

JonJ678 · 25 May 2010 at 20:01

That is a very good heatsink mounting system.

thingemajib · 25 May 2010 at 20:04

cant you rotate it 90 degrees so the fan is blowing towards the case exhaust fan?

Temi_D · 25 May 2010 at 20:06

I used to have my cooler set up like that. But the problem is that it sucks the warm air from the GPU so will be a few degrees higher

stulid · 25 May 2010 at 20:07

thingemajib said:
cant you rotate it 90 degrees so the fan is blowing towards the case exhaust fan?

i can, but i got two 230mm fans in the roof sucking out the heat, so i thought i would do it like this, it was mainly the dam noise i wanted to kill, worse than nails down a blackboard.

ricky · 25 May 2010 at 20:39

Love the first pic,with the Fenrir vs the stock cooler

nayenshah · 26 May 2010 at 08:40

thank you very much! now i know which one to get for my next build! always been an intel fan and have dived into AMD recently simply for the cost

erformance ratio benefits.

Frozennova · 26 May 2010 at 08:40

thingemajib said:
cant you rotate it 90 degrees so the fan is blowing towards the case exhaust fan?

AFAIK they can only be mounting either blowing air towards the top or bottom of the case due to the rectangular socket that AMD use, I'm sure it will follow all coolers but its deffinatly the case with both the Arctic Freezer 7 Pro and the Coolermaster Hyper 212.

stulid · 27 May 2010 at 20:36

slight update.

my idle temps now

FiCtioN75 · 27 May 2010 at 21:41

mine dont even go lower than 30 on a H50. im liking your big exhaust fans in the room of your case. id probs stick another fan on the otherside of the fenrir to pull the hot air through. first pic is class

el Kuarlos · 28 May 2010 at 14:16

You might get some issues when your graphics card is under load as well as the processor. The Gcard can heat up the sink quite a lot, if you do try putting in an antec spotcool aimed directly at your northbridage and accross the rear of the GPU chip.

I have no choice but to mount horizontally and that sorted the problem for me.