Effective, Quiet Cooling - Any ideas?

[byunews]

Hey guys.
My Barton 2800 (12.5*166) is getting kind of hot with its stock heatsink - PC Alert 4 reports 67 degrees (Celsius) under load. I'm partially rebuilding my computer, using quiet parts, shooting for under 30-25dba if possible. I bought some Vantec Stealth case fans, which supposedly operate at 21dba. Can any of you reccomend a heatsink/fan combo that's not to expensive (no more than $50, if possible), reasonably quiet, and more effective than the stock? I was looking at Volcano 12s.. they seem to cool well, but are they quiet? Can anyone who has a Barton and a non-stock heatsink reccomend one to me?

[eweruk]

67!?!?!?!?!? Wow, man I get nervous when mine cpu gets to 60C

[washe]

And I was freaked because it got to 52C this week......

Whats your room temperature?

When the AC is turned on, my temps drop around 10C..... If the room is hot any cooling you add will not drastically change your temps.

[K-Raz]

I'd go for the Thermal Right SLK947-U, and a 92 mm heat regulated fan.

The SLK is made purely from 570 grams of copper, and coupled with a large, silent and heat regulated fan, it should provide a silent and effective cooling solution, even if you plan on overclocking.

Oh yeah - its mounted through the motherboard

You can see it here : www.thermalright.com
click on Amd heatsink > SLK947U

I'm gonna get one myself, as soon as i get my next paycheck - I'm getting ready to upgrade the XP-1700+ (OC 2000+) I've borrowed to a Barton 3200+, and that will probably run quite hot when overclocked with Set@Home in the background.

Cheers! (This was btw my first post!)

[byunews]

Er, I dunno about that SLK947 fan.. it says the fan is 55dba - that's LOUD! What kind of fan would be a good buy for a replacement?

[K-Raz]

I'm more of a "keep cool", than a "keep silent" kinda person, so i honestly don't know... yet.

I'd go for a 92 mm fan with a heat regulator... something like *browses web*
Here!: http://www.zalman.co.kr/

goto "fans & brackets > ZM-F2(92mm)"

There are other types, the fanciest being the ones with thermal diode resistors which you stick onto the heatsink, which then raises or lowers the RPM's of the fan according to temperature: when idle, virtually silent - when gaming on a hot summers day, like a vacuum cleaner

You could og course go with a water cooled solution, which you can build rather cheap yourself - i have a friend who did it with some garden hose, an fountain pump, a radiator found in a scrap-heap (from a tank actually, but small - like a lunch box)
The only things he bought was the pump, and the water-head for the cpu, and it ran at a steady (and very silent) 35 degrees C.

Hope I'm helpfull

[byunews]

Hmm.. water-cooling would be awesome for overclocking, and it would be quiet. How much are watercooling kits and how easy is it to do?

EDIT: I think water-cooling is way too exotic for me - thanks for the idea, though.

[K-Raz]

The kits are probably more than 50 bucks (don't know the prices in the US) - but if you are a handyman type, you could build it yourself - with some stydying on some related sites.

Building your own water cooling also provide some nice bragging rights

[nukes]

You need the holes in the motherboard for it though (not an issue with new systems, but the KT600 board I got for christmas doesn't have them - so I can't go and get an SLK-900 either )
Watercooling is probably the best option. My CPU temps were (until last week) bordering between 48-51 full load. Took the side off the case and now they're at 42c. Looks as though I need to do some work on the airflow. I have 2 intake fans at the front, 2 at the back, 2 PSU fans and a coolermaster X-Dream. So you would have thought it would work ops:

[byunews]

Nukes, what CPU are you using? A Barton as well?