Cooler question

[Cat_In_Pyjamas]

First post, so hello to everyone! Ok that's done. My computer (essentials in sig) has been kind of loud lately, so I decided to quiet it down by changing the CPU cooler (AMD Heatsink) to Zalman. I set my eyes on either Zalman FS-C77 Fatal1ty or Zalman CNPS7700-ALCU. I've read about the first one that it's not as quiet as the producer claims it is. Furthermore, due to its size, there can be problems with installation. Here are my questions:
a) is FS-C77 really that loud, and does anyone know if it'll have any problems fitting into a computer such as mine (all the stuff is locked up in a black Shark Thermaltake case)?
b) as it's my first attempt to actually change a cooler, I'd be grateful for any hints concerning removal of old thermal compound (I don't want to damage my CPU) - i'll be replacing it with Arctic Silver 5 as it seems to be one of the best products available.

One more thing - I'll be trying to OC the CPU in the near future - please bear that in mind while advising me the cooler.

And that would be it for now. Any help will be much appreciated.

P.S. Last but not least - if there is ony other product you'd advise (apart from ThermalRight SI-120) - go ahead, I'm all ears.
P.P.S. Can any Don please delete my notes from a similar thread started by nick_lerwill?

 

[Cat_In_Pyjamas]

I'm not against SI120 - as I just copied and pasted my note from the previous thread (hopefully the original notes are deleted by now - though by my post count I can see they're not) where SI120 was already mentioned. That's why I said "apart from" .

Skythe ninja if you can get it in your case.

Shark is 205 mm in width. Minus few cm for mobo + cpu. That gives me about 160 mm of free space. Enough for the heatsink itself but I'm not sure if the fan will fit. If anyone has any experience with putting Scythe Ninja into Thermaltake Shark, please post how those two work together.

 

[Cat_In_Pyjamas]

Ok I'll give Ninja a pass (don't want to buy something that may not quite fit - sides, I don't think I'm gonna need that much cooling capacity - I'll be trying to OC my Venice to 2200-2250 MHz max). I've now drifted towards Big Typhoon and Aero Flower. Since I can't find any reasonable comparison between those two, does anyone know how they perform? Another thing - I've read about the BT mounting problems - how is it with ASUS A8N-SLI Premium mobo? Any complications observed (that may be the key point as I've no mounting plates apart from the original one that came with the mobo)?

 

[Cat_In_Pyjamas]

The XP-120 with a good 120mm fan is awesome at cooling! Superb.

Weird - I've seen several topics in which people complain about Thermalright (the SI-120 to be exact, but it's supposed to be better than XP?). And BT is said to outperform the XP-120.

Aero Flower is the copy of the Zalman isnt it?

That's right - I meant Zalman. If what you're saying is true than I guess we can take Zalman's claims to the cooler being superior that most other stuff and throw it in a bin. Looks like it's gonna be BT after all. All I've left to do is wait until friday when my money'll get trasfered to my card and order the behemoth =] (along with some other stuff .

 

[Cat_In_Pyjamas]

Tbh my room's quite cold - below the ambient temperature most of the time.

 

[Cat_In_Pyjamas]

Ok, I got the BT for my rig and I have to say it works like a charm . On startup, bios detects 28C for my CPU and after a couple hours of work it stops at 33C. I've not seen it go higher than this. In a few days I'll try to OC the CPU and then we'll see how good this...thing is.
I kind of got scared when people complained about mounting but in the end I had no problems at all, so thanks to everyone who suggested BT