To Fellow Computer Gee.....*Cough* Gurus

[Cat5Messiah]

I was going to order a Thermalright SLK-900U but my Motherboard was not listed on the Motherboard compatibility list. I tried even looking at other lists on other Heatsinks on that site, and found nothing on my Motherboard. I could use some information. My Mobo is a Gigabyte GA-7ZXE which is a 133 FSB SDRAM Mobo (I know, it's sad). Information on this Heatsink or maybe suggestions on what to get will be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.

 

[Cat5Messiah]

Nevermind, I went ahead and ordered. This is what I got:

Thermaltake Smart Case Fan II with "Coolmod", Thermalright SLK-900(U) and Arctic Silver III 3.0g

 

[†_Aragorth_†]

hmm...you ever thought about water cooling not this expensive fans for air colling system? if you have "strong configuration" like I will have soon, then think about water cooling, man. waste of money for these expensive fans.

I have Athlon 3200+ right now, and Zalman 6000 Al-Cu is good enough for now. but will buy Barton 2500+ procesor and overclocked it to near 4000+ I hope, so in these cases you need water cooling. its really waste of money for air coolers I guess.

 

[-Gavin-]

I;m just using the fan that came with my computer.

 

[Yetti]

me too. my computer is slower than molasses(sp?) on a cold winter day

 

[EagleFlyFree]

since a few weeks i'm on a 1700+ (tbred A 1,5v) on a MSI K7N2 Delta L (official support for fsb 200), with a TT Volcano 9 cooler

i gotta tell you, the 1700+ fucking kicks ass!
when i'm not playing games i use it at 200x8 and with the fan at middle RPM, and when i'm going to play games for a while, i kick it to 200x11 (2200mhz with air cooling, suck it!) at no more than 1,575v and it's all stable as fuck!

the reason i bought such budget parts though is that here in Argentina we're 3 to 1 against the dollar, and since EVERYTHING is imported, stuff costs exactly 3x here :-((

about temps, at 1600mhz: 40 idle 48 in use
at 2200mhz: 45-48 idle and around 58-59 in use

i know 59 sucks, but i can still improve the airflow in my case, i just need to get off my lazy ass and get some fan grills and then open up holes in the case...