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My friend Rob got me a new Jet 7 fan/heatsink for Christmas and helped me install it last night since I'm a retard.



It is a jet engine.

This thing comes highly recommended. After Rob scraped off the old pad (which I had forgot to do) and redid the thermal paste (Arctic Silver) application (which I completely bodged since I'm a dumbass), and after I had managed to get the fucking thing on (he'd never installed a Socket A heatsink before and I have and it's a fucking BITCH) I found that it had lowered my CPU's temperature by around 25 fucking degrees Fahrenheit, from 130F (55C) to 105F (41C).

This thing is amazing.

Yes, but does it make breakfast?

And how much does that help the system?

I've been considering getting an SLK900 as my heatsink, either that or I'll go get some Zalman quiet heatsinks. My case is rather noisy

I don't have to worry about noise, because I wear headphones when doing things and no one else seems to care about a bit of whirring, so I plan to take a fan motor/blades out at some point and fix it to the side of my case. Just for the hell of it.


(BTW, it'd be great if my main account was working... and it's a good thing I have a sockpuppet, what with the anonomous posting disabled )

The floor here is wood, and where I put my computer there's a lot of noise reflections funneled out ot the rest of the room. It's a bit difficult to fall asleep with that much noise.

StormTrooperTR889 wrote:Yes, but does it make breakfast?

And how much does that help the system?

...I just told you. Makes CPU cooler. Cool = g00d.

Very true, although it shouldn't matter once you get your CPU below a dangerous temperature. Personally, I'd actually take a trade-off between a quieter computer with a year shaved off its CPU life expectancy and a noisier computer, as long as the quiet computer's CPU doesn't actually start locking up and suffering real system problems from the heat.

Hold on, I'm still working on routing liquid Nitrogen, and the atomic powered UPS for my ultimate computer, darn federal regularions (just kidding folks)

Here's a couple of interesting solutions for people like me who detest noise:

Voodoo F50 Fanless

Koolance EXOS

Personally Dalton, I think you're nuts for running something like that in your case. It reminds me of the kids who used to change over every fan in their case to high-speed Deltas...

Dalton wrote:I found that it had lowered my CPU's temperature by around 25 fucking degrees Fahrenheit, from 130F (55C) to 105F (41C).

My CPU temperature is just 89F and I have an Athlon 2600+ with a
basic fan installed.

Dalton wrote: CPU's temperature by around 25 fucking degrees Fahrenheit, from 130F (55C) to 105F (41C).

This thing is amazing.

130 is almost near the red zone. Probably a good idea, I was going to say that you really shouldn't need to buy one of those spiffy fans but in your case you certainly needed it.

Hey, what can I say, I got it for Christmas.

I also have a very warm room with a very small window, so I don't get a lot of air circulation.

As for the noise, I don't mind. I need white noise to sleep in any case.

55C is well within the safe zone for an Athlon.

As for those damned Deltas, I remember when people used to do that. IIRC, Intel still uses their fans for the stock Xeon HSF, too.

phongn wrote: As for those damned Deltas, I remember when people used to do that. IIRC, Intel still uses their fans for the stock Xeon HSF, too.

If they do, then it isn't the high speed ones. I've seen a Xeon "Windtunnel" in action and it really isn't all that loud; certainly not the high-pitched screamer that those old Deltas were.

Too loud for me -- I can easily hear my L1As.

phongn wrote:55C is well within the safe zone for an Athlon.

As for those damned Deltas, I remember when people used to do that. IIRC, Intel still uses their fans for the stock Xeon HSF, too.

What is the danger zone for an Athlon?

The danger zone is above the 80C range, though I would be uncomfortable with my CPU even at 70C.

phongn wrote:Too loud for me -- I can easily hear my L1As.

Well it is a server...

The Kernel wrote:

phongn wrote:Too loud for me -- I can easily hear my L1As.

Well it is a server...

Pah, plenty of people run Xeons at home

Kamakazie Sith wrote:

phongn wrote:55C is well within the safe zone for an Athlon.

As for those damned Deltas, I remember when people used to do that. IIRC, Intel still uses their fans for the stock Xeon HSF, too.

What is the danger zone for an Athlon?

Between 80C and 90C...above 90C and parts tend to.....melt.

Well sometimes noise is a good thing. When I get my new computer, I'll pimp that thing up to ridiculous specs and treat it EXACTLY like a rich boy treats his Rice Rocket: Neon lights, water-cooling, LOUD FANS, a garish paint job, and a big huge wing on the rear deck!

I actually like having a certain degree of fan noise, as I like to have a nice constant background noise when I go to sleep at night. Silence tends to bug the hell out of me at night.