Best cooler for P3.2 S478?

danceMB · 14 Mar 2006 at 11:44

I have the above CPU which got amazingly loud with the supplied intel heatsink, reserator im not happy with, so wondered what is the best type of cooling for this? Im not into DIY so it will have to be a ready solution TBH. The quieter the better

Big.Wayne · 14 Mar 2006 at 12:15

Have a snoop around for a used Thermalright SP-94, used a few of them and their wicked (LARGE lump of cooper!)

ChrisLX200 · 14 Mar 2006 at 12:24

I use a Zalman 7000cu, quiet and very effective (until it gets full of dust/fluff....)

kumar101 · 14 Mar 2006 at 12:43

ChrisLX200 said:
I use a Zalman 7000cu, quiet and very effective (until it gets full of dust/fluff....)

Agree with Zalman 7000Cu used it on 2 different Systems, v quiet and keeps CPU tempratures low.

danceMB · 14 Mar 2006 at 13:13

Would the zalman 7000cu or the zalman 9500 be better? Heard good things from both

Booner! · 14 Mar 2006 at 16:30

before water cooling i went for the Gigabyte G power Pro

dam quiet and kept things cool, looks nice and has speed fan control unit so you can turn up/down where applicable

SIB · 14 Mar 2006 at 18:33

I use a coolermaster "fujiyama". Pure copper heatsink and very quite fan. getms my 3ghz P4 to 3.6 with ease

jbloggs · 14 Mar 2006 at 21:26

danceMB:

I have a P4 3.2GHz Prescott (socket 478), cooling it a Thermalright XP-90 heatsink and a Panaflo FB-92-H1BX 92mm fan, does a very good job as well.

Used stock heatsink/fan for a very short while, pretty dire really.

danceMB · 15 Mar 2006 at 09:16

Looks like there are a lot of options for my P3.2 then, more than I actually realised. Anything can be better than the stock cooler, which sounds like a jet engine whenever you play games. Just hope that one of these choices will make my machine cool & quiet like the reserator used to do in the past

Big.Wayne · 15 Mar 2006 at 11:51

Actually I just remembered that the Thermalright Si-120 fits socket 478, so if you can't get the SP-94 (EOL) then the Si-120 it is!

danceMB · 15 Mar 2006 at 12:33

Are these Thermalright on par with the latest & greatest from Zalman? I always thought Zalman were better than anything else?

Big.Wayne · 15 Mar 2006 at 12:50

Well sadly I didn't get a chance to use any Zalman HSF but they do look quite promising. I like the way they mount to the mobo but I'm not so keen on having no choice of fans.

The Thermalrights are the best heatsinks I used personally, but I avoided the XP-120 series as I read they were a bit tricky to install, but after reading a lot of the Si-120 it seemed ro perform very well and have 0% installation issues.

I personally prefere having a fan that blows air downwards onto the heatsink (and surrounding circuits, pwm etc).

Things change I've changed · 15 Mar 2006 at 13:05

danceMB said:
Are these Thermalright on par with the latest & greatest from Zalman? I always thought Zalman were better than anything else?

Mate, when I first got my preshott p4 I was paronoid about the increase in temp's going from my northwood, and not only that the stock intel fan would sound like a jet engine takeing off if I started to play a game etc, I must off went througth nearly every lga cpu cooler out, well nearly, the only one that I was happy with was the ThermalRight XP-120 paired with a Panaflo FBA12G12L1A 120x38mm fan (These are not your standerd fans, these are high quality, high grade, high CFM to noise ratio fans) as the ThermalRight SI-120 is now out I'd give that ago, as the above post says, the XP-120's are a bit tricky to install sometimes.

danceMB · 15 Mar 2006 at 13:30

Thats not really a problem for me to do, as I will be getting a IT guy to install it all for me, assuming he thinks that it would all go into my machine after looking what else I have got plugged in. If it works with that fan then I will give it a go. You can buy the Thermalright 120 here, but can you buy those 120mm fans from here as well?

Cyber-Mav · 15 Mar 2006 at 18:55

cheapest and possibly the best air cooler that will work on the P4 would be the Thermaltake Big Typhoon.

danceMB · 16 Mar 2006 at 08:49

Thats even more to the list now. I thought there might be a one sort of universal agreement to "the best" one available to cool it quietly. Seems almost too good to be true that the thermaltake big typhoon only generates 16db!

danceMB · 16 Mar 2006 at 09:19

I just read a review recently that gave good case for the "Arctic Cooler Freezer 4" The test bed was a P3.0, would my slightly higher P3.2 make much of a difference? Looks like there have been about 10 recommendations here, shame there isnt some big table with all results of people with the same as me :rolleyes:

Hector · 16 Mar 2006 at 11:26

i have a freezer 7 which is the same unit as a 4, other than the mount. it's sat on a 3.4 D0 prescott, at 4ghz the cpu temp is about 4-6c higher than at stock speed depending on room temp's.

their fault, which the newer freezer pro's where tweaked to try and fix (bent lower fin's) was that the pwm temps go up as they don't get the air like top-down units give. however that said, i got through last summer without any heat issues for either pwm or cpu.

don't know what the pro's is like compaired to the older freezer version, i've been happy enough with the old one enough not to bother looking about.

Matteysan · 16 Mar 2006 at 11:42

I use the arctic freezer 4 on my 3ghz northwood @ 3.4, runs about 32c - 45c at most best heatsink ive had for it.

ajgoodfellow · 16 Mar 2006 at 12:32

I've got the Akasa EVO120

It fits Socket 478 according to the description and it's very quiet on minimum fan speed. Knocked about 10 degrees off my temps compared to the stock cooler

On full speed it's rather noisy but it comes with a controller fitted into a PCI blanking plate so you can just turn it down and forget about it