Gah, one thing after another.

[Estes]

Firstly, my power supply died. Replaced it with a spare I had. (480 watt)

And then today, my CPU fan quit working. Good thing I noticed it when I did.

I replaced it with a smaller one, only one I had laying around. It's one that is reccomended for my AMD Athlon 3200+ but none the less, still smaller than the one i had on it in the first place.

My question is, can anyone give me a reccomendation for a heatsink/fan combo?

I've noticed that some of the better heatsink/fans are quite large.

Here, rough estimate of the space I have.

The fan that died on me was a Vantec Aeroflow.

Thanks in advance.

[StarOfAfrica2]

Try this thread.............

http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=135442

Eagl posted some really good links in the lower half of the thread that helped me out alot when I was looking for better cooling.  The link to the perf. testing was nice too.

[Sandog]

http://www.svc.com/thersmarcasf.html

 Thermaltake smart fan 2,  by far one of the coolest fans around. I put them in all the computers I build. This fan comes with a rheostat. Moves tons of air  76 cfm at full rpm. I don't actually run it full blast its a little loud on full rpm. But you can turn it down quiet a bit and still get good cooling performance. On the downside its an 80mm fan and a lot of the newer heatsinks use 92mm fans. If you can use your old heatsink with an 80mm fan give it a try.

As far as a new heatsink check here http://www.heatsinkfactory.com
I was gonna recommend a thermalright AX-7 because  it used to be one of the more reasonable priced copper heatsinks but they have been discontinued.

Its been a while since I looked at heatsinks and the prices on copper have gone thru the roof.

Anyway good luck