[plug] Socket A cooling recommendations

[bob]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:56 am, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > I have a socket A Athelon that had its CPU fan die. Rather than just
> > replace the fan I am thinking of replacing the whole cooler - I was
> > never entirely happy that the supplied unit was up to the job.
>
> Quiet is good. A CPU fan can make a surprising part of the noise from a
> system, along with PSU fan, HDDs, and any aux fans. I don't know of any
> specific quiet CPU coolers, however.

Some of the thermaltake volcanos mentioned are 2 speed jobs that kick into 
high gear automatically when they need to work harder. Low speed noise 
specs look pretty good (17 dB at 1300 rpm), high speed is pretty ordinary 
(48 dB at 4800 rpm) but I hope that would not be a problem if they're 
efficient enough to cool properly at low speed.

<snip>

> In honesty, though, I can see how audio connectors etc would be useful
> at the front of the machine. You'd just have to be careful to keep the
> permanant stuff at the back.

Of course, but with the proliferation of USB  and firewire devices that are 
designed to be moved from machine to machine plus audio etc etc I think its 
a good thing (tm) 

> Craig Ringer

-- 
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		-- Mark Twain

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