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    CPU fan and heatsink

    I was looking at fan/heatsinks at newegg.com for an AMD Athlon 64 3700+. I may want to overclock it some. I was wondering if someone could point me in the direction of a good one or two, or if you could tell me if this one is good or not. Thanks!

    ZALMAN CNPS7000B-Cu LED 2 Ball Blue LED Light Cooling Fan
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835118119
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    Spawn of Markel nate el bueno's Avatar
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    that one's not bad, but this one's a lot better.
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835118223

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    Ya, definately go heatpipe.

    I'm an Artic Cooling fan myself. (haha...pun) Their products tend to be much less expensive and perform as good as Zalman's.
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    Zalman all the way dude. Not that you'd need heat pipe's.. I've had my 2.0ghz A64 3200+ clocked at 2.4Ghz w/out heat pipes. Though it ran sorta warm. (my ram started getting pissy well before I was able to get my cpu at any temp I would consider 'hot' )

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    Quote Originally Posted by shocky123
    Zalman all the way dude. Not that you'd need heat pipe's.. I've had my 2.0ghz A64 3200+ clocked at 2.4Ghz w/out heat pipes. Though it ran sorta warm. (my ram started getting pissy well before I was able to get my cpu at any temp I would consider 'hot' )

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    Heh.. so you got your Zalman eh?

    Good stuffs there mang.


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    Hah.. sorta
    I was able to get the Zalman to work for the Pentium-D's in the workstations. And upgraded to a Zalman at home after seeing this.

    But not so lucky with the EE's unfortunately. We tried liquid cooling on a couple, and still had heat problems. After that fiasco, we had to opt for a dielectric/liquid pressure system. Basically the case is pressurized, and a dielectric oil is sprayed constantly over the parts of the motherboard, which absorbs enough heat to cause the liquid to vaporize, then it sorta 'rains' it back down after cooling at the top of the case. The liquid is then pumped out of the case in the same manner as a conventional water-cooling system.
    Cost: ~$1400 for the cooling system and the custom box they had to build for the server. LOL, thank god it's not my money.
    Results: the two cores and their associated hyperthreads actually operate at 3.0+Ghz without throttling.

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    jez, that sounds like quite the setup there shocky!!! Awesome!
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