How to cool a athlon3000+ - thermal control?

[morten.norgaard]

hello all,

right, I've given up, searching up and down has brought no answers
or at least answers that I'm too dumb to comprehend, so here're my woes
for your to consider and (laugh about) hopefully reply to -

I've given myself the task of building a home-theater pc. I've
chosen the athlon64 3000+ on account of the cool'n quiet technology,
the asrock 939Dual-VSTA motherboard to go with it. Now I need a cpu
cooler - but which one? I don't really care about the noise-level,
well, let's say I care only in the sense that I wouldn't rather have it
up higher than 35db. But what I'm truly anxious about it to have the
cooler respond to the cpu activity(!). I.e. when the cool'n quiet
technology lowers the cpu heat to a bare minimum (which is how the cpu
will perform 90% of the time, resting in the cabinet in the corner of
my livingroom, on 24x7), I want the fan to respond accordingly, i.e.
stop spinning when there's no heat to dissapate. But ... how? I've
learned, I believe, that the motherboard needs to support thermally
controlled cpu-coolers. My motherboard offers, qoute, "CPU Temperature
Sensing", "CPU Fan Tachometer" and something called "CPU Quiet Fan".
The manual is unable to explain what these things mean, but I'm sensing
I need to buy a fan which supports these features, would that be
correct? But, once again.. Which one? All the fans I've looked at
solely offer the usual 3-pin connector - how will the motherboard be
able to determine the cpu heat from that, I wonder, and lower the
spinning accordingly?

HELP ME PLEASE!

....And thanks a million in advance,

best,


Morten,
Hapless Dane

 

[johns]

Artic Cooling ACS64 Silencer is what I use on my 3700+
I think it works fine on the 3000, but check the chipset
because the cpu holder may be slightly different ??
Trick there is the heat sink is big enough that you
can run without a fan if you want to .. not recommended.
Plus the fan is large and slow .. meaning quiet. In
addition, the fan is externally controlled ( by you )
with a manual speed control. Knob it down to quiet,
and it will work fine. I have it in a game box running
maxed out in games, and the highest temp I've seen
is 54 C, and I can't hear the fan at all.

johns

 

[morten.norgaard]

johns skrev:

Artic Cooling ACS64 Silencer is what I use on my 3700+
I think it works fine on the 3000, but check the chipset
because the cpu holder may be slightly different ??
Trick there is the heat sink is big enough that you
can run without a fan if you want to .. not recommended.
Plus the fan is large and slow .. meaning quiet. In
addition, the fan is externally controlled ( by you )
with a manual speed control. Knob it down to quiet,
and it will work fine. I have it in a game box running
maxed out in games, and the highest temp I've seen
is 54 C, and I can't hear the fan at all.

johns

Johns, thanks. I'll answer some of my questions myself, as I've found a
great pace of wisdome:

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article169-page1.html

COvers a lot about cool'n quiet.

 

[John Doe]

hello all,

right, I've given up, searching up and down has brought no
answers
or at least answers that I'm too dumb to comprehend, so here're my
woes for your to consider and (laugh about) hopefully reply to -

I've given myself the task of building a home-theater pc. I've
chosen the athlon64 3000+ on account of the cool'n quiet
technology, the asrock 939Dual-VSTA motherboard to go with it. Now
I need a cpu cooler -

You might also consider Arctic Silver heat sink grease to help
quietly reduce your CPU temperature. Available online or locally
(USA) at CompUSA.

Good luck and have fun.

 

[Michael Hawes]

You might also consider Arctic Silver heat sink grease to help
quietly reduce your CPU temperature. Available online or locally
(USA) at CompUSA.

Good luck and have fun.

Stock cooler should work fine, unless you are using small size case, but
they usually come with custom cooler.
Mike.