Newbie cooling question

jacket882

jacket882

jacket882

Associate
Joined
3 Apr 2011
Posts
15
I bouhht this PC a couple of months ago:

£149.99 x 1 - LG E2360V-PN 23" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black
£95.82 x 1 - Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 Extreme 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK Exclusive**
£83.32 x 1 - AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail
£58.32 x 1 - MSI 870A-G54 AMD 870 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard
£48.32 x 1 - Coolermaster CM-690 II Lite Dominator Case - Black
£33.32 x 1 - G.Skill RipJaw 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C8 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit
£25.82 x 1 - Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gbs 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500413AS)
£12.49 x 1 - Samsung SH-S223CBEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
£10.82 x 1 - Logitech UltraX Premium Keyboard - OEM (920-000189)
£8.32 x 1 - Gigabyte M6880 1600DPI Gaming Mouse
£42.49 x 1 - XFX Pro 550W Core Edition Power Supply

It's all good and I can play most games at max settings.. only problem is that its way too loud. You may notice I haven't bought a CPU fan (yes i know..). Is this the problem?

If I buy:
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2 CPU Cooler

will it give me the peace and quiet I have come to crave? I cant even sleep with the noise if the PC is on at night!

cheers
 
Surely it would be fans making the noise? Loudest fans on my PC tend to be graphics cards, but that's just me. And I honestly have no idea about how you've been running your CPU...
 
I notice you say you dont have a cpu FAN but do you have a heatsink attacked to your cpu????? :confused:
 
Presumably you've got the stock CPU cooler fitted?! As someone said, graphics card cooler is usually loud, but I presume if you've got it on at night while you're trying to sleep it's not your graphics card that's working hard. Could be that the stock cooler is loud, or the case fans. Maybe check your fan speeds and temps to give us some more info.
 
He's using the retail cooler...

Have you localised the noise to the CPU cooler as it could also be the graphics card or PSU.
 
Jokester said:
He's using the retail cooler...

Have you localised the noise to the CPU cooler as it could also be the graphics card or PSU.
Click to expand...

he's using the standard AMD cooler. unless his graphics card has an air horn to warn him that he's using 100% graphics power then the standard AMD heatsink is going to be the problem.
i had the standard cooler and it could be heard from any room in the house under prime or while gaming. i now have the zalman and the improvement is unbelievable.

if you want to check if its the graphics card being the problem or the processor download a program called prime95. that will stress your processor at 100% but leave the graphics card at idle. so, if you get the noise while using this program its the processor fan thats causing the noise. if not, its the PSU or GPU

what kind of budget do you have for a new cooler for the processor?
(assuming that the processor cooler is the problem, which it more than likely is)
 
Last edited:
hey thanks for the replies

i've been running the stock AMD cpu cooler

I went ahead and bought the Arctic CPU cooler anyway, but will download the prime95 app and let you know

hopefully its not the gfx card fan, otherwise there is nothing that can be done right? Its just a tad too much noise doesn't seem normal

edit: tested screenie - noise was quite loud

fanscreen.png
 
Last edited:
The arctic cpu is a budget cooler really. Its only a tiny bit better than the stock.

You need to run prime for a while if your clocking

you can get a after market cooler for your gpu as well
 
Noise whilst gaming probably comes from both CPU and GPU coolers, unless you have a capable and quiet 5850 cooler. As with anything that makes noise in PCs there's a solution. There are several aftermarket graphics card coolers that are an option if you are willing to spend £30-£50.

I agree that the AC7 is very much a low end cooler option. It's diminutive size and smaller fan mean it will need to spin faster than a 4-6 heatpipe 120mm variant.

Still it should be much better than the stock cooler.
 
Last edited:
koooowweeee said:
The arctic cpu is a budget cooler really. Its only a tiny bit better than the stock.

You need to run prime for a while if your clocking

you can get a after market cooler for your gpu as well
Click to expand...


I'm going to have to respectfully disagree. I've got a pretty modest cooling setup (1 intake, 2 exhaust) and the freezer 7 Pro. While I was running the stock cooler at stock speeds, my temps were mid 30's to 40's depending on application.

With freezer 7 pro, I'm idling at 30/31 and get no higher than 36 degrees C with a 700 MHz overclock (phenom 2 x2) in normal use (web browsing + gaming). Prime 95 pushed it to the dizzying heights of 41 deg c after 2 hours.

There are certainly better coolers out there, but this one has impressed me!

To the OP, The freezer 7 pro is noticeably quieter than the stock cooler, it gets a little loud if you let the dust build up, so give it a good squirt of air every couple of months. Also, something worth noting. Due to the design of its mounting bracket, you can't have the fan blowing air out the back of the case with AMD machines. The fan will be facing the top. Works fine for me as it's blowing straight into one of my exhaust fans, but it could mess with your airflow with the wrong case.
 
No way, I can confirm that AC7 is a budget cooler. I have one currently on my rig with an X6 1055T which is @ 3.5ghz and under volted to 1.26v and after 20 mins prime I can hit 62c easy and this is with a case with 6 fans and IC 24 diamond compound.

In gaming I don't see anywhere near these temps so the cooler will do me til I get a better fan but it's a pretty low end cooler for CPU's but will do the job for you compared to the stock fan because it'll be slightly better but more so because even at full whack it's very very quiet.
 
Probably just lucked out then :) - I'm going to go and run prime again - see how drunk I was last time...

Plus, I am using a dual core, so that may have an effect
 
Last edited:
the amd stock coolers are just blenders, even things like a dark knight is not too bad for them, plus it is an easy one to install on amd chips. but don't use their thermal paste, use a better one

with the arctic you need to take off the backplate, whole lotta fun there
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom