Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
<SNIP>
Zalman's cooler is a good one but the one I listed in a prior thread is
cheaper. Performance is similar. This one of course doesn't need a fan
and will be silent.
I have always been skittish of a cooler with no fan. They just don't sound
right for some reason. I guess if I saw one in action, I may feel a little
different. I do like the large quiet fans tho. I do like to keep the noise
to a minimum. I actually checked Toms hardware for that one too. It is
highly rated. I have a ThermalTake Volcano 12+ on my little AMD 2500+. It
runs cool tho. I'm running folding and have been for at least a week now
and I'm running 87F for the CPU and the fans are ~3700 rpms. Not to bad I
guess. I hope for something like that with the new CPU but it may run a
little hotter since it has more cores and such.
They work fine if you have a lot of case cooling. If case fans die or
just shut off for some reason you can lose the processor pretty
quickly, but that's not much different than a CPU fan dieing...
If you're looking for silence go water cooled.
- Mark
I agree. Fanless or not, if you lose the case cooling, you got problems
real quick. I just want a efficient cooler since I run folding during
the winter months. I also know that the cooler they run, the longer
they last.
I'm not big on water cooling. I like to look at pics where people do
use water cooling but I just don't want water around my puter. I don't
even put my glass close to my rig. It's not even close to my keyboard
or my desk either.
Weird ain't I?
Dale
:-) :-)
