What is the best heatsink/fan combo?

[suprsheep2]

I have a volcano 9 right now, but I need something with a little better cooling, but I an not really ready to go with water cooling. Opinions?

[The Lodge]

Thermalright hs with a thermaltake fan, or any other decent fan for that matter.

[Midknyte]

http://www.frostytech.com/

The thermalrights are pretty good, but the new coolermaster hyper6 is nice too. For a quieter system, you could get the Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu.

[Bat25]

If you have the room, thermalright with 90mm panflo.

[suprsheep2]

Quiet is out of the question on this comp. I have a total of 10 fans in it. So it sounds like a 747 taking off in my room. The fan speed controller comes in handy sometimes though.

[Someone Stupid]

SLK-9xx series with a 92mm screamer on it then.

[suprsheep2]

I was actually thinking the thermalright slk-900 with a 92mm x38mm vantec tornado (119 cfm) What do you think about that?

[Midknyte]

your room is gonna sound like a jet is taking off. hehe those vantecs are pretty loud.

[suprsheep2]

You'll have that sometimes, but do you think that will cool my athlon mobile 2600 @ 2.5Ghz enough? I plan to try to take it to 2.7ghz if possible.

[Midknyte]

if that doesn't, then you might have to go to watercooling.

Why don't you get the SP97 with the heatpipes?

[suprsheep2]

I don't think it fits on my motherboard (Abit NF7-S Rev 2.0) Unless I read something incorrectly.... I donno

[Midknyte]

http://www.thermalright.com/a_page/m...board_sp97.htm

Looking good!

[scottluebke2003]

Why do you have 10 fans? That is overkill. Find a good balance between noise and temperatures. At first I had 6 fans in my comp and it sounded like a jet, you couldn't even sleep with the comp on. But then I started disconnecting fans one at a time and monitoring temps. Now I am down to 1 case fan, decent temps, never a temp related problem. Try it and enjoy a much quieter computer.

The Thermaltake Silent Boost will be a very good cooler for you.

[Bat25]

5 here. It's not overly loud, but I could do away with a few fans.

[bushmaster]

I been using a Scythe Kamikaze. I just finished a screaming game of UT2003 and it was running at 41c.