Efficient & Quiet cooling.

[MWISimmer]

Well, it's come round again, the monthly computer fair at Tolworth, near to where i live!
This months purchase is going to be a new heatsink and fan replacement for my cool but noisy stock Intel HS & fan for socket 478 P4 Prescott.
Anyone got any suggestions? My Mainboard is an MSI 7037, which is incompatible with Zalman 120mm 7xxx (recommended by a friend) coolers so they're out of the question.
Brands seen at the fair previously:
Zalman, Asetek "vapochill", Swiftech, and a couple of others that i can't remember  ???
Bear in mind, silence, or as good as, is what i'm after.... my CPU rarely gets stressed.
Cheers in advance,
Rob.

[ctjoyce]

A Zalman CNPS-7000Cu. 92mm will cool it much better than the stock cooler, and is probibly the quietest cooler I have have ever used. If the CPU dosn't ever got too stressed like you said, your not gonna need a 7700 from zalman, your definately not going to need vapchill, and the two others are much louder than the Zalman.

Cheers
Cameron

[kipman725]

I think he's refering to the vapochill AIR cpu coolers:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2005/0 ... ler/1.html

Good comparison between zalaman and the vapochill coolers (although it's athlon 64 both companies make simlar coolers for intell and proportionaly simlar results can be expected).

As I have never used high end aircooling as I have never had the need I canno't offer any opions on these products.

Although I have seen thermalright in action with a vantec tornado and was amazed at how much voltage could be pumped into the chip with barley any change in heatsink temp so that might be a brand worth considering.

[ctjoyce]

My 550 Prescott is running under a Zalman CNPS-9500 @235x17 (3.99Ghz) as far as wattage goes Its running 1.5482V, and cannot go any higher as the Chipset cannot keep up with the 4Ghz+ that I want ( i need a better cooler for it).

As for the CNPS-7000Cu I pushed that puppy to 3.83Ghz before it went over the stock temps (38C idle) So ide say for the price you cant do better than it.

Cheers
Cameron

[MWISimmer]

Cheers for the help lads, i'll see whats on offer at the fair on Sunday.
@Cameron: you're right, i don't need any of these coolers- my current one works fine...it's the silence i'm after...
@kipman: yea that's what i saw last time. The vendor said they were a pain to fit, and after reading the link you posted, it looks like he was right.
I'll probably end up buying a graphics card instead.....
Rob.