"_dee" <> wrote in message news:...
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:56:13 -0700, <> wrote:
>
> >"_dee" <> wrote in message news:...
> >> Any recommendations for a QUIET fan/heatsink for Socket 478 Northwood
> >> CPUs? The stock Intel version is the right size, but it's the
> >> noisiest thing in the box (and I have a few other fans in there). I'm
> >> using this in a recording studio, so I'd like to minimize that.
> >
> >The solution is to run a bigger fan at a slower speed. A Zalman
> >CNPS9500 with its attached speed control (or by using fan speed
> >reduction on the motherboard, if it has this feature) will be ~18dB.
>
> Actually I have a Zalman 7000B-Cu (copper) that I haven't installed.
> The thing is way too big and heavy. Not sure what prompted me to buy
> it. It's so big that it would probably get in the way if I were
> taking drives out, etc. I end up poking around inside the system so
> much that it would surely get dented badly.
>
> I just compared dimensions on that vs the 9500 via Newegg:
> CNP7000B Cu: 109 x 109 x 62, 755g
> CNPS9500 AT: 85 x 112 x 125mm, 530g
>
> Not sure how to interpret that, as it appears that a couple of the
> width/height/depth measurements are juxtaposed. The weight of the
> 9500 is better though.
>
> I was hoping for something close to the dimensions of the original
> Intel. Any idea if that's the case?
If you're limited to an 80mm fan, I've never seen one adequately cool
a Northwood (they run HOT) without at least some fan noise. Many
great heatsink/fan combos exist for Socket 478, but all the quiet ones
I know of (Scythe, Typhoon, Zalman etc) are either big of very big
and use 92 or 120mm fans running at low speeds.
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