Please recommend a Opteron Skt 939 cooler.

[poltergeist666]

I've just bought a Opteron 170 and a Asus A8N32 SLi Dlx off the MM.

Can some kind soul please recommend a decent cpu cooler for the above as system will be on air, not water!. I have done a search for about an hour, and have had trouble coming up with something that'll be good for the above combo.

Rest of system - 2 x Gainward 7900 GTX's
Mushkin Extreme XP4000 Redline 2x1gb's
2 x Maxtor D/max 10 300 gb H/drives
Coolermaster All ali server case
Tagan 1100 watt psu.

The above system will be overclocked to it's max .....

Thanks in advance

Jerry

 

[Agent WD40]

I've just bought a Opteron 170 and a Asus A8nN32 SLi Dlx off the MM.

Can some kind soul please recommend a decent cpu cooler for the above as system will be on air, not water!. I have done a search for about an hour, and have had trouble coming up with something that'll be good for the above combo.

Rest of system - 2 x Gainward 7900 GTX's
Mushkin Extreme XP4000 Redline 2x1gb's
2 x Maxtor D/max 10 300 gb H/drives
Coolermaster All ali server case
Tagan 1100 watt psu.

The above system will be overclocked to it's max .....

Thanks in advance

Jerry

Hi Jerry,

I'd recommend a Thermaltake Big Typhoon, damned good air coolers and I got my opty 170 upto 2.8ghz with it.

Also a scythe ninja is a good choice.

Agent.

 

[PinkFloyd]

Sythe Ninja is good, huge size best cooling available on air afaik.
Very big though so might get in the way if you move things about in your case a lot like I do.... Doesn't blow air down onto the motherboard

Zalman 9500, good design, works very well, blows no air onto the motherboard.

Thermalrite XP120, Doesn't cool quite as well as the 2 above (not far off) but blows air down onto the motherboard to keep chipset etc cool.

Reason I mention the air blowing down is I'm using a zalman 9500, and while my cpu is ice cool, chipset and pwn often reach 50 under load (at stock even)

 

[poltergeist666]

Cheers for the quick replies off to the cooler section of the shop to have a gander.

Thanks again.

 

[poltergeist666]

Thanks again guys - phoned OC'ers & gone with the Scythe Ninja Plus - hope it does the deed!

Cheers

Jerry