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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Estes on December 13, 2004, 03:42:44 PM
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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. (http://r0013636.hostultra.com/images/space.JPG)
The fan that died on me was a Vantec Aeroflow.
Thanks in advance.
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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.
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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