P4 4.0Ghz on Air

Sultan of Ping · 6 Apr 2006 at 00:13

Hallo,

I've had a P4 630 LGA775 (2mb cache) running at 4.0Ghz for a few weeks, stable but hot on water.

However, my thermaltake CPU block decided to split open recently and drown my graphics card, and because this system needs to be on 24-7, I've lost my faith in (cheap) watercooling equipment!

What I need is an air cooled solution for this requirement, I can wind the CPU back a little if needs be - can anybody recommend an air cooling alternative for my CPU? Arctic Cooling and Xilence have been recommended to me by friends, but I thought I'd ask the experts first, before taking the plunge (pardon the pun, or not, as the case may be)! ;-)

stigggeh · 6 Apr 2006 at 00:17

Scythe Ninja with a fan added
or
Thermaltake big typhoon

those are two i would look at

Raikiri · 6 Apr 2006 at 00:18

The arctic freezer 7 pro is a great, cheap cooler so I would go for that.

I have seen the xilence but I don't know how it performs (design wise looks good). Maybe you could get one and tell us

Edit: I guess you mean the "xilent blade" cooler?

Sultan of Ping · 6 Apr 2006 at 00:30

Yes, it's the Xilence Blade cooler, I think I might try it to be honest as it's new in the UK, even thought the Freezer Pro 7 is tried and tested....

Stigggeh, are the Scythe and Thermaltake quiet? - remember, I've had a bad experince experience with Thermaltake!

Sultan of Ping · 6 Apr 2006 at 00:34

And, Raikiri, yes of course I will post my results once installed!

Raikiri · 6 Apr 2006 at 00:35

Sultan of Ping said:
Yes, it's the Xilence Blade cooler, I think I might try it to be honest as it's new in the UK, even thought the Freezer Pro 7 is tried and tested....

Stigggeh, are the Scythe and Thermaltake quiet? - remember, I've had a bad experince experience with Thermaltake!

Thermaltake comes with a fan and is pretty quiet, very quiet at 7v (about £25)

Whereas the Scythe normally comes on it's own and you choose than fan so it could end up costing £55+ with a fan.

Don't fancy picking me up a couple of those aerocool turbine 120mm fans from the site that sells the xilence do you? :eek:

Sultan of Ping · 6 Apr 2006 at 00:48

LOL, are those Aerocools any good, I see that the 120mm AND the 140mm are available and in stock now in the UK (they LOOK noisy, but that doesn't mean anything!), pretty cheap too - specs look OK..

Booner! · 6 Apr 2006 at 00:58

i overclocked on an expensive water cooling system (Exos 2) and its great, but very intrigued to see how you get along with air.. :rolleyes:

Raikiri · 6 Apr 2006 at 01:05

Sultan of Ping said:
LOL, are those Aerocools any good, I see that the 120mm AND the 140mm are available and in stock now in the UK (they LOOK noisy, but that doesn't mean anything!), pretty cheap too - specs look OK..

Very good, they are rated up with nexus for low noise and push similar amounts of air. I have one in my PSU and it is completely silent (shame the 80mm in it isnt), they are very low RPM and enough airflow.

For about £4 I might orde rone, just a shame the postage is as much as the fan :/ more if I order anything else

Booner! said:
i overclocked on an expensive water cooling system (Exos 2) and its great, but very intrigued to see how you get along with air..

His is socket 775, they run cooler than 478... even so good air should be enough for 4ghz on yours.

AWPC · 6 Apr 2006 at 01:18

Zalman 9500 is the one you really need. I get high 50c @ idle & no more than 65-70c @ full load.

This is with the fan in low rpm silent mode @ 1400rpm. With a higher fan rpm the temps come down 5-7c & it is still very quiet.

My mobo temp sensor is also about 10c too high so well always below the std intel specs for my CPU (one of the hotest P4s @ 130W TDP).

Even overclocked on stock vcore the temps remain the same.

Not cheap @ £40-45 inc P&P but well worth it IMO.

If your not bothered about noise then either the cheaper Zalman 7000 or 7700 pure copper HSFs will give very good performance although they are a little heavy (800-900g) compared to the 9500 (only 530g which is 80g over intels max spec for a hsf).