Best quiet Socket A cooler?

sirlemonhead · 9 Jan 2007 at 20:22

Put together a second machine with my spare Socket A cpu and motherboard parts, but it has one of those Aero turbine coolers which is pretty loud..

What'd be the quietest but good performing cooler to use for an AMD XP 2800+ I might possibly overclock 200mhz?

Inferno99 · 9 Jan 2007 at 21:29

Might want to have a look at the Thermaltake Sonic Tower or the Thermalright SI-97. Both high performing heatsinks but you will need to get a silent fan to go with it such as SilenX or AcoustiFans. :cool:

sirlemonhead · 9 Jan 2007 at 21:33

Ah cool, I like the look of the Thermalright SI-97. The other thing looks far too scary for me

I like the fact that the SI-97 has a shim too, installing coolers on those old Athlon XPs always made me nervous!

Edit:

Ho hum..Not sure a SI-97 would work with my board..

I'm using the Abit NF-7 as used in this review I found http://www.ocia.net/reviews/si97/page2.shtml

I had to replace my chipset cooler with a fairly tall Zalman heatsink...judging from those photos, it looks like the SI-97 wouldn't fit as the heatsink would get in the way.

Anyone any experience with an SI-97, Zalman noiseless Northbridge cooler (big blue fanless one) and an Abit NF-7? heh

adsmithy · 9 Jan 2007 at 21:42

I'm in the same boat as you, looking for cpu & chipset coolers for my nf7-s. I'm struggling to find something which will fit for the cpu, as i don't have much room between the cpu socket and the psu.

do you have this issue?

Cob · 9 Jan 2007 at 21:42

I had the SI-97 on an AN7 (virtually the same board) and I had to break a couple of spikes off a Zalman ZM-NB47J to get it to fit. But it did fit fine.

sirlemonhead · 9 Jan 2007 at 21:45

adsmithy said:
I'm in the same boat as you, looking for cpu & chipset coolers for my nf7-s. I'm struggling to find something which will fit for the cpu, as i don't have much room between the cpu socket and the psu.

do you have this issue?

Never been an issue for me, I have the board in a Chieftec Dragon case with the stock chieftect PSU. Current cooler is a Coolermaster Aero.

sirlemonhead · 9 Jan 2007 at 21:46

Cob said:
I had the SI-97 on an AN7 (virtually the same board) and I had to break a couple of spikes off a Zalman ZM-NB47J to get it to fit. But it did fit fine.

Were you able to take the tops off or did you have to remove the entire fin?

Wouldn't affect the heatsink performance?

Cob · 9 Jan 2007 at 21:48

I snapped them in two. They're easy to break. And they didn't affect temps.