general cooling

hk3948 · 5 Nov 2006 at 22:48

just looking to get some cooling going. getting some high temps. was just wondering which fans give best cooling, not nothered at all about noise. also, which cpu coolers will give me most effective cooling and lastly, are the akasa thermal interface pads any good.
thanks

CarlD · 5 Nov 2006 at 23:45

not nothered at all about noise.

Delta fans!

hk3948 · 6 Nov 2006 at 10:35

so, are they seriously noisy. *** are the thermal interface pads like. do they give good conduction

james_earl · 6 Nov 2006 at 19:16

do not use thermal interface pads. use arctic silver

allllec · 6 Nov 2006 at 21:18

well yes, deltas have awesome air flow - but really are loud - i mean i used to think "yeah as long as its doing its job i don't mind noise" yeah when you have to turn the music up just to over power the roar of your computer its a bit silly - so I'm *Assuming* (hay i could be wrong) you probably don't mind a bit of a hum, in that case something like an Akasa Amber will do you fine, 120mm's are very nice

Thermal pads are nice and easy but to be honest your better of with a tube of arctic silver 5 does a better job and to be honest isn't exactly tricky to use, put plop a rice grain size-ish bit on the center of the IHS on your cpu, dump on the cooler and let mavity and pressure evenly spread it over the cpu

good luck mate

ta

alec

Mr-White · 6 Nov 2006 at 21:39

even 7v modded deltas are loud, i used one for about 2 years and it got to me in the end.

MW