Cooler

[Drizzt]

Opinions about this:

http://www.thermaltake.com/products/heatsink/v9.htm

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[Wombat]

That's what I've got right now. I really like it. I've got the potentiometer hooked up to it, and I've turned the fan down to about 3000 rpms, so that it's inaudible over the power supply's fan. If I crank the fan to full speed, I could lose about another 4C off the CPU temp, but I don't need it - I'm at 13C above case temp right now.

[Pace]

What's the quietest fan available that can cool a 2000+?

I'm using a 7+ at the moment, thinking about getting a Zalman though.

[Wombat]

If you want quiet, you're probably going to need your own shroud, and a large fan.

[Tomasz]

I'm cooling my 2000+ with a Thermalright AX-7 (an SLK-800 would work even better) with a Panaflo L1A (~1900 rpm). It does the job quite well and rather quietly. If this is not quiet enough, you can always run the Panaflo at about 7 or 8 volts... with a good heatsink and good case airflow I'm sure you can still get away with it.

[TnT]

Doing some searching after my Celeron post I found several reviews saying that the Coolermaster HAC-V81 is really quiet, but it only does a decent cooling job. Definitely not for overclockers, but for those that have noise at a higher priority it does a great job. Also it costs $18 at newegg. Coolermaster also has a newer HSC-V83 that is supposed to be just llke the V81, except using skivied fins.

Thien

[WyWyWyWy]

I always think those big ass mofo Swiftie and Alpha with a Papst or Panaflo 80mm low rpm fan should have the best cooling/quietness ratio... if money is no object.

Well actually, you can buy the ThermalTake Aqurius II water cooling kit for very cheap now.

[Paddy]

I love my Zalman HSF. The only problem is that the mountain bracket for the fan is a PITA. It also makes removing cards difficult and you cannot use them on dualie boards.

Having sad all that, I have forgot to connect the fan a few times and i have enver had problems... the HS is very good

[Admiral]

Another happy TT Volcano 9 user.
The fan actually tops at ~5200 rpm and personally I can tolerate it up to 4800 rpm (the speed I have it at now).
As for temperature, my TBred tops 45-48C depending how hot is in the room.
Also, I have a sucky midtower case and the cooler is only a couple cm away from the PSU, so there's additional heat comming from it.

(time to change case methinks )

[GNEP]

And another happy Zalman copper flower user - very very quiet (my HDD is the noisest thing in my system these days) and more than adequately cools my (TBred) AthlonXP 2000+

[borat]

Zalman all the way on a 2200 xp here, one hot mother of a chip though, the PC i bought came with a coolermaster which sounded like a hoover and kept it at 62 degrees, my zalman is silent and temp is now 58 degrees, i can get it to about 50 with the zalman fan at full speed.

[Sethos]

currently I'm using the tornado -- moves 17 cubic feet of air per min. Not bad, and also pretty quiet I'm happy with it.

~Sethos

[RedRed]

I use a monster alpha cooler with a sweet little fan I ripped out of a PSU....runs on the low voltage line of a HD power connector. The alpha came with a Delta - stupidly noisy!!

I dont have the figures to hand... but a 1800+ XP processor runs sweet for almost a year (I think it was about 42-44 range) (the FSB is tweaked up just a little)

I cant hear that fan.... even when running with the case off sometimes...

(The PSU
RedRed

[RedRed]

That said - the PC sits near my server (a twin celleron 466 (BP6 fame) @520, there are fans everywhere on it! I cant hear ANYTHING when its been on full load for a while - think I need a new set of HS for that one.... ( I was thinking of a copper bar between both procs with a single BIG HS braised on..... ) Maybe I should drop the speed back down too.....

[Drizzt]

Uhmmm...A bit OT, but not that much: I've got an ECS K7VTA3, and I'd like to monitor CPU and system temp in Win2k. Is there any program that does this? (only this, a small proggie).