Best Heatsink?

**volskid2002** · 11-07-2003, 02:50 AM

For under $5 you can buy a fan adapter and mount a 80mm fan on the stock AMD HS and probably get just as good results as the Volcano.

so what your are saying is that i just use the retail heatsink and add a fan to the top of it or something.

If you're serious about managing the heat and plan on OCing check out Peltier cooling or water cooling or (even better) a combination of both.

it would be nice but i dont think i can afford water cooling till after i get the cash flowing in

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btw: nice post clocker about how you are building your pc
btww: im oly 15 and i get my license in 3 months so i can drive and then ill probably get a job and sit back and save up

B) .

**_John_Lennon_** · 11-07-2003, 02:56 AM

Originally posted by volskid2002@6 November 2003 - 16:57
yea i guess ill just save up for all three parts i think i need around like $265 or something if i get them from newegg.com

Like Virtual and others have said, Get the retail version.

Here's what I did, from newegg.com, I spent,

about 83 on some 512MB of Geil 3200 DDR-Ram (You get what you pay for, this
isnt the best for extreme limits overclocking of the barton.)

85 for the 2500 Barton Itself. (Cant complain on this one, look at my sig.)

and like 87 for my Epox 8RDA+, although I believe that is starting to get phased out, but its widely used, and has comparable features to the ASUS 120$ boards.

And as you can see in my sig, with stock cooling, and the 400Mhz ram, for my 333Mhz CPU

I can run it at about about 350Mhz over the stock speed, on stock cooling.

For fans in my case, I only have one in the bottom front, thats about 2100RPM, one in the back thats about 2500, and my CPU fan, which is about 2700 RPM.

Im happy with it, and im holding off on cooling purchases until I build my evaporative cooler in a few months.

**Keikan** · 11-07-2003, 02:59 AM

Get Volcano 9, cheap and coools good

**bob_the_alien** · 11-07-2003, 03:46 AM

I'm actually ordered a new hsf tonight, got the coolermaster Jet 7.
good hsf, but it also looks really cool. and that's always a plus

**clocker** · 11-07-2003, 05:44 AM

Originally posted by bob_the_alien@6 November 2003 - 20:46
I'm actually ordered a new hsf tonight, got the coolermaster Jet 7.
good hsf, but it also looks really cool. and that's always a plus

I'll be interested to see what you think of that piece of hardware.

It appears to be a classic case of form over function.

**bob_the_alien** · 11-07-2003, 06:22 AM

Ahh well, if it sucks, I'll just try again, though the water cooling idea, is getting more and more towards the front of my cooling thoughts.

**clocker** · 11-07-2003, 06:25 AM

Originally posted by bob_the_alien@6 November 2003 - 23:22
Ahh well, if it sucks, I'll just try again, though the water cooling idea, is getting more and more towards the front of my cooling thoughts.

Me too.
Keep me posted if you go ahead with it.

**bob_the_alien** · 11-07-2003, 06:41 AM

Will do,
I'm sure if I start, I'll be letting everyone know, Hey I've got a problem, my processor and Mobo just fried.

Nah, at least lets hope not, Though as you mentioned before the outside water cooling would be an idea, I saw an episode of the screensavers a while back, and Yoshi showed this Hugh outside radiator, that connects to the side of a case, so that would be cool, but I bet it's expensive, and it would cover up my paint job on my case, so after thinking about that no. but still a smaller outside kit would be cool. I'm going to have to go around all the modding sites and take a closer look

**Kunal** · 11-07-2003, 06:49 PM

Originally posted by johnboy27@6 November 2003 - 19:18
I have a volcanoe 9 and it works quite well on my overclocked XP2200+.My temps are usually uner 40.The volcanoe 7 isn't quite as good as the 9 but they are up to the volcanoe 11 by now and they are not very expensive.

infact volcano 12 extreme