Weight question...

[tehownt]

Hi,

Ofter, when talking about cooling CPUs the only main factor in which people are interested is the noise level, I for myself, being the happy owner of a dual system, am facing a weight problem regarding CPU fans: In an standard ATX case when using two big cooling fans for the CPUs it tends to be too weighing too much for the motherboard and gets me stability problems (had some volcanoes 7+ which aren't that heavy compared to others (700Gms each)...).

So my question is basically that simple :
Which fans would be a good choice for an efficient cooling, noise not being such a problem (I don't want some jet-sounding-alike fans either...) but having a respectable weight (each under 400-500Gms).

Often the weight is printed on details specs of fans but it is also missing at many places.


Thank you.



--tehownt.

[diehrd]

WELCOME TO THE FORUMS..

What chips are you running ? Are you over clocked ?

[tehownt]

Oh yeah, forgot to say that.
I'm running 2000+ MPs, the stock fans are slightly weak on heat dissipation, that's why I'd change them.
And no It's not overclocked yet, but I might be willing to do it in the future, though its not a priority in the replacement of the CPU fans.

Thanks.


--tehownt

[diehrd]

Grab 2 SK6 Heat Sinks with there stock fan..They are all copper but not massivily heavy..Cool exceptinally well and should not be expensive at all as there a bit dated but still held the #1 spot for cooling for a long time

[tehownt]

Thank you for your advice, but when you refer to the "stock fan" are you implying the AMD CPU stock fan or the one that comes with the heatsink ?
The SK6 seems to be sold only as a bare heatsink w/o any fans, hence my question.
If you'd have a nice efficient fan to recommend to plug onto that heatsink, I would be interested (either w/ a fast rpm and low noise (as the green AMD stock fans used to be) or low rpm but high CFM (which I don't know)...).

Thank you anyways for your answers,

--tehownt

[Rpkole]

have you ever thought about water cooling your chips

[tehownt]

Yes I indeed have, but it poses a problem as hardware to watercool 2 CPUs is quite expensive and I tend to move my box often so I'd rather not take the risk with water cooling.

[diehrd]

Use a basic fan that fits it..27 cfm danko may be good .

[adamwinn]

Or use whatever heatsink you want, and if you have problems, lay your case on its side ^_^

[tehownt]

Or use whatever heatsink you want, and if you have problems, lay your case on its side ^_^
Hahaha yeah that was one of the other solutions but erm... It's not that much elegant and it takes some place (the plastic see-through panel would block me from putting it under the screen...):/

[moz_21]

have you ever thought about water cooling your chips

I cool my dual with water. I now have to figure out how to cool the voltage regulator and NB heatsinks (with fans placed in specific spots).

[tehownt]

Yeah the problem is that I got the green stock fans replaced from new ones AMD did send me, but the new ones quite suck, the stock slim green ones used to run at around 5000RPMs and were about as noisy as the new ones that only run at prolly 3500RPMs and aren't cooling well enough.
But nobody seems to know what specs and/or make were the original green stock ones so I'll have to find some that match the best...

[ihrsetrdr]

Yes I indeed have, but it poses a problem as hardware to watercool 2 CPUs is quite expensive and I tend to move my box often so I'd rather not take the risk with water cooling.

I can relate to that. However, in the case of my MSI k7d / mp2800+ rig the MP's were running so hot that I went ahead and watercooled them. Perhaps the temp readings are inaccurate on this board, but 155 deg. F was making me nervous and concerned about seeing a considerable investment die a thermal-death ! I had a water cooling setup previously on another machine, so I just bought a second cpu water block-->picture (http://www.geocities.com/hrsetrdr/WC_Pics/CoolDuallys.JPG) . The blue Zalman water block was the one I added to the existing Innovatek block on CPU1. The risk is minimal if you follow tried and true procedures. There's tons of tutorials on water cooling...prolly some on this site. ;)