Please Post Your Socket 939 Cooling Here

[joeMan]

Anyone interested please post your socket 939 cooling solutions/problems/ideas and temps in this thread...

First off - I'm not water cooling. Not yet anyway -

I am cooling my FX-53 with an all copper Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu:
http://www.zalmanusa.com/usa/product/view.asp?idx=79&code=005009
I don't run it in quiet mode, ever. I run it at full speed. The nice thing about that is that it is still quiet and runs at 3,000 RPM. I get the extra 400RPM's out of it because of the following unique configuration... :chit:

Hovering just about 1/4" above the circular intake area of the CNPS7000A-Cu, where negetive intake pressure exists, I have a Zalman ZM-F2 92mm fan running at full speed, 2,700 RPM (also not too noisy in my opinion) mounted on the FB123 Fan Bracket Assembly:
http://www.zalmanusa.com/usa/product/view.asp?idx=15&code=016
If you clicked that link you will see that bracket is designed so at one end goes the fan, adjustable to blow over any components in your case that you choose, and the other end mounts to the PCI slot screw holes, where your PCI card screws that hold your PCI cards go. It can go there even if you have cards in the slots and an AGP card in the slot already. The way I set mine up is that the second fan is positioned just above the CPU fan, so essentially I have two CPU fans - the one built in to the CNPS7000A-Cu, and the one I mounted hovering directly above it facing and blowing directly into it. This pushes even more air into that negetive pressure area.

By adding this FB123 setup I have realized an extra 5C cooler all around. I think it's because the 92mm fan on the FB123 catches cool air coming in from my two front case intake fans and throws that cool air directly in to the Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu fan which throws it through the copper fins of the heatsink, thus creating extra cooling. :thumb:

I use Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Paste:
http://www.arcticsilver.com/as5.htm
Applied exactly as described on their website, for AMD64 users READ STEP 10 of the following link: http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silver_instructions.htm
not much is needed, and works very well. :thumbs:

So here are my temps:

35C Idle
48C Load (3DMark2001SE/3dMark03/Prime95 Torture Test)

I wish load temps were lower, but at least nothing I throw at it has broken 48C, not even Prime95, after loooong periods of time.

One last note. I did try the Thermalright SLK-948U all copper on this exact same setup and my temps were all 4C higher...so Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu all copper wins in my machine.

[Blackeagle]

A interesting set up man.

Did you have the second fan above the ThermalRight? If not then it may have beaten the Zalman if it would have had the same advantage. And the SP97 with it's heat pipes and your second fan would IMO give it a heck of a run for it's money.

But still a good job of setting up your cooling man. :thumb:

[joeMan]

Hey, thanks Blackeagle.

Yes, I did try the exact same setup with the Thermalright SLK-948U, and the temps were still about 4C higher all around. There was an exception to that setup though, and that was when I had used a Tornado 5,800 RPM on the Thermalright - HOLY CRAP :yikes: !!! That was a loud - like vacuum cleaner loud - almost setup...but was about 2C cooler than my current setup. But at too high a cost in noise factor man. I like the idea of 5,800 RPM's though :D .

I am curious though - I wonder how the Thermaltake PIPE101 http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/comboCool/pipe101/pipe101.htm
would fair in my current configuration...in place of the Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu? Hmmmm.... :mischeif: