help... wat kind of HSF?

sparkleTNT2 · March 15th, 2003, 07:44 AM

hey everyone. atm the HSF i have is REALLY crappy. its a thermaltake superorb. i have an athlon xp 1800 and the mobo is the 867AS-H.
http://www.thermaltake.com/products/orbs/superorb.htm
there is a link to show u my HSF
http://www.jetway.com.tw/evisn/produ...67AS/867AS.htm
this is for my mobo.
notice the capacitors so close to the cpu socket? yeah well the HSF i have now looks like its bin angle grinded along the bottom just to fit in!!!
SO THE QUESTION IS.... does anyone know a much better HSF to put on to get my cpu cooler? with the side of the case ON im steady at 50.5, and thats with a casefan aswell. ive looked at fans and their dimensions are far too large. can anyone suggest a better fan with same dimensions as the SUPER (sh**) ORB or any way to get my temp down? if only i could move them stupid capacitors!!! GAH!

thanks,
brendan

eRaDicaTor · March 15th, 2003, 10:45 PM

That superorb is pretty skinny man, I don't know of any good fans that are the same. I recently switched from a Volcano 6cu+ to a Vantec TMD hsf. It's quieter and cools a ton better. It doesn't have a central motor so it's supposed to cool the center of the cpu better. It does cool quite well i must say. I also added some case fans blowing directly onto the cpu fan so I couldn't tell you how much of a difference the hsf alone made but my system went from around 51 to 39degrees Celsius. I love it.

rockpile · March 15th, 2003, 10:49 PM

I like the volcano 7 myself

ben-the-slacker · March 15th, 2003, 10:52 PM

Volcano6Cu is huge and loud. Don't get it if you don't like the high-pitch whine of fans.

davidamarkley · March 15th, 2003, 10:53 PM

Another vote for the Vantec AeroFlow!

David

jdurbin · March 15th, 2003, 11:02 PM

I have the Cooler Master HAC-V81 which has a potentiometer to dial the fan speed up or down but it is pretty big and I am not sure it will fit.

I have been looking at the Volcano 7 for my next build in the next week or two.

The biggest review of HSF I have seen is at:

http://www.dansdata.com/coolercomp.htm

Also, there is this one at Tom's Hardware:

http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030113/index.html

Good luck.

sparkleTNT2 · March 16th, 2003, 12:24 AM

hey eradicator, so u have a case fan attached to the side of your case blowing straight into the HSF? i have a large fan that sits on the outside of my comp that blows air straight into the HSF and it DOES make it a hell ofa lot cooler for me. so u think i should mod my case abit? get a fan to blow air onto my HSF?

XxCowOfChaosxX · March 16th, 2003, 12:25 AM

volcano 11

DPA · March 16th, 2003, 12:31 AM

thermalright.com produces some wonderful heatsinks. personally i love the silent breeze 462 ($17 at newegg) and cools a 2400+ if i remember correctly, and it operates at 19 dB, which if my numbers are right 20 is nearly the quietest thing you can hear, so half as loud as silent (understand... lol) can get.

everything they have posted works great too. i had a good experience with the volcano 9 as well.

CarniceroOO7 · March 16th, 2003, 01:01 AM

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Originally posted by sparkleTNT2
hey eradicator, so u have a case fan attached to the side of your case blowing straight into the HSF? i have a large fan that sits on the outside of my comp that blows air straight into the HSF and it DOES make it a hell ofa lot cooler for me. so u think i should mod my case abit? get a fan to blow air onto my HSF?

Air blowing in is fine but you should always pair up exhaust fans with your intake fans. Hot air only gets moved around in the case unless you've got something to extract it. That's why intake fans are usually below or exactly in the middle of the case and exhaust fans are above the middle. That old saying "hot air rises" is very true. Most preinstalled rear exhaust fans are directly above the AGP slot and in line with the CPU HSF, which is the perfect spot to put an exhaust fan if you're a gamer or someone who puts your system through hell frequently. "Line of sight" also helps with fans. Regular IDE cables can block airflow while "stacking" or using rounded cables solves that problem.

A good thing to pair with a CPU fan is the newer power supplies that have dual fans: an exhaust on the back and an intake on the bottom (right above the usual location for a CPU), so it sucks up your CPU heat discharge and shoots it outside the case.