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
