[geeks] Good Socket370 heatsink/fans?

[Phil Stracchino]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:38:52PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> Er, make that a Socket A heatsink/fan.

There's one out there, if you have space for it, that has a radial array
of vanes about eight inches across with a 120mm fan sitting in the
center.  Ought to cool pretty well and be nice and quiet.  My
recollection is the heatsink itself is copper, but my memory could be
wrong.

I'm using -- or I should say WAS using -- a Thermaltake Volcano 7+ in my
Athlon gamebox.  It has a solid copper microfinned heatsink and cools
really well, if you don't mind the noise (it has a 7000rpm 60mm fan, and
it's a little noisier than some coolers).  whitestar's CPU rarely got
above 43C even under load.

(I say "was" and "got", because my wife just shipped it out here to me
in CA, grossly inadequately packed and uninsured, and UPS promptly
wrecked it.  Smashed the case, sheared the motherboard mounting
standoffs, tore the heatsink loose (my fault, I should have told her to
remove the heatsink and pack it separately), heatsink flailed around
inside the case smashing things on the motherboard.  And I don't have
the cash to spare to rebuild it right now.)


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