Passive cooler for a 2Ghz Athlon XP Socket A

Chronictank · 20 Jun 2006 at 09:55

Can anyone recommend me a passive cooler for my media pc plz

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the aim is to make it as quiet as possible

benjo · 20 Jun 2006 at 09:58

A 2Ghz athlon would get quite toasty if it was passive :eek:

My advice would be to get really quiet air cooling

Chronictank · 20 Jun 2006 at 10:10

benjo said:
A 2Ghz athlon would get quite toasty if it was passive

My advice would be to get really quiet air cooling

aye i was thinking the same thing, but with all the newer heatsinks out of which some are passive i was hoping i could get lucky

benjo · 20 Jun 2006 at 10:13

Well the one that springs to mind is the Thermaltake Sonic tower

http://www.thermaltake.com/product/cooler/retail/cl-p0071/cl-p0071.asp

I dont think theres going to be much more out there

FrenchTart · 20 Jun 2006 at 10:14

Which chip is it? Iirc, some of the later bartons might run alright with a passive heatsink as long as you have good case airflow..which will be loud

Perhaps if you underclock/volt it slightly?

benjo · 20 Jun 2006 at 10:17

Aekeron said:
Which chip is it? Iirc, some of the later bartons might run alright with a passive heatsink as long as you have good case airflow..which will be loud

Perhaps if you underclock/volt it slightly?

I'm guessings it's a XP 3000

And a media PC doesnt need that much of a fast PC does it? So yeh, underclocking it could be a good idea

james.miller · 20 Jun 2006 at 10:22

its extremly hard to run a socket a cpu passive. i couldnt do it with a tbred running at 1ghz/1.1v, temps still rose to 60c in minutes running superpi. for the hassle its not worth it. just get a big heatsink with a big slow fan. you'll hardly hear it anyhow.

cokecan · 20 Jun 2006 at 10:25

nice big 120mm fan on 5v will do the trick

benjo · 20 Jun 2006 at 10:26

Well the biggest thing going for a Socket A is a Big Typhoooooon. Not sure if that'll fit in a media pc though

james.miller · 20 Jun 2006 at 10:27

might do. depends how high it is. It would fit in my silverstone i think, but my scythe ninja wouldnt lol

Chronictank · 20 Jun 2006 at 10:41

james.miller said:
might do. depends how high it is. It would fit in my silverstone i think, but my scythe ninja wouldnt lol

hehe sythe ninja didnt fit

(i tried it on his pc and it stuck out the top so you couldnt close the case

), a zalman aeroflower wouldnt fit either because it was too wide and slightly too tall
doh friend read the numbers wrong its actually a 1.6 i asumed it was a 2400

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http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Athlon XP 2000+ - AX2000DMT3C.html
guess ill recommend him a Big Typhoon, his current one is stock so sounds like a vaccum cleaner under his tv ><

benjo · 20 Jun 2006 at 11:06

Be carefull with the size of the big typhoon though

It does live up to its name

ob1 · 24 Jun 2006 at 00:55

zalman cnps 7000b would be very quiet on the lowest fan setting and would cool enough. I overclocked my socket a and would forget to turn the fan up when playing a game, I still rarely had a crash all the same.

Completely passive is only going to work on a mobile chip running at 1v or something silly like that

Cyber-Mav · 24 Jun 2006 at 21:13

i got big typhoon on my xp-m cpu, very quiet and cool running.

broady212003 · 25 Jun 2006 at 09:30

Hi, On my old rig which the cpu is a AMD Athlon 3000+ skt A, I used a gigabyte G-Power pro......and it kept the temps down to a nice 33c idle and 45c under load.