OT: Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 64 vs. AVC Z7U7414001

[RJK]

A quick question :-
...which is best ?
Arctic Cooling Freeezer Pro 64
or
AVC Z7U7414001 Athlon64 Socket AM2 / 939 Heatsink
http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1962

....recently built up a system box for a retired freind, and landed up with a
dead AMD dual core 5000 cpu from a seemingly honest ebayer !, so had to pull
the x6000 out of my 2nd PC - and use that in my friends new system box.

The replacement x6000 from ebuyer.com came with a AVC Z7U7414001 hs/fan and
whilst it looks impressive with its' 2 heatpipes, (I didn't use it - I put
my Freezer Pro 64 back in - because of the soft rubber fan mountings), and I
was torn between the two, ...as I said I plumped for putting the Arctic
back on that machine

TIA

regards, Richard

 

[Paul]

A quick question :-
..which is best ?
Arctic Cooling Freeezer Pro 64
or
AVC Z7U7414001 Athlon64 Socket AM2 / 939 Heatsink
http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1962

...recently built up a system box for a retired freind, and landed up with a
dead AMD dual core 5000 cpu from a seemingly honest ebayer !, so had to pull
the x6000 out of my 2nd PC - and use that in my friends new system box.

The replacement x6000 from ebuyer.com came with a AVC Z7U7414001 hs/fan and
whilst it looks impressive with its' 2 heatpipes, (I didn't use it - I put
my Freezer Pro 64 back in - because of the soft rubber fan mountings), and I
was torn between the two, ...as I said I plumped for putting the Arctic
back on that machine

TIA

regards, Richard

It says the 70x70x15 fan spins at 3800-5400 RPM. I'd plug
it into one of your motherboard headers and see what it sounds
like. Otherwise, the construction looks OK. If it is
loud, you may be happy to keep the Freezer Pro 64.

Paul

 

[CaptAmerica]

A quick question :-
..which is best ?
Arctic Cooling Freeezer Pro 64
or
AVC Z7U7414001 Athlon64 Socket AM2 / 939 Heatsink
http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1962

...recently built up a system box for a retired freind, and landed up with a
dead AMD dual core 5000 cpu from a seemingly honest ebayer !, so had to pull
the x6000 out of my 2nd PC - and use that in my friends new system box.

The replacement x6000 from ebuyer.com came with a AVC Z7U7414001 hs/fan and
whilst it looks impressive with its' 2 heatpipes, (I didn't use it - I put
my Freezer Pro 64 back in - because of the soft rubber fan mountings), and I
was torn between the two, ...as I said I plumped for putting the Arctic
back on that machine

TIA

regards, Richard

This is a pure hardware question that has nothing to do with XP.

Ask elsewhere

ps. at least you RECOGNIZED your post was off topic. I guess that's
part of your cure. The next step is to NOT post OT crap here.

 

[RJK]

Thanks Paul, I think you're right. i.e. I would have to try it !

...."you hit the nail on the head" - the fan speed size / max. rpm was
exactly what tipped the balance in favour of refitting Arctic cooler -
without even trying it.
Another consideration is that with the Cool'n'Quiet features throttle the
cpu down to 1ghz for most of the time. i.e. not much intensive computing
gets done my my machines. ...the Arctic cooler blows air through its'
radiator directly towards a 120mm case-rear fan, ... whereas that AVC hs/fan
would blow downards...
....other considerations - 2 RAM modules are directly under the Arctic
Cooling 92 mm fan....so they get quite a nice airflow.
....passive Northbridge hs fins are having air drawn through them by a Zalman
VF700-alcu fan on the pci-e x16 graphics card, because they're in such
close proximity - in fact I had to snap 4 fins off of the -
http://www.zalman.com/ENG/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=132
to give the fan blades on VF700 cooler enough clearance. IOW the
orientation of the fins on the AVC would not provide any airflow to the
Northbridge heatsink but, the Zalman graphics card fan is doing a nice job
on that.

.... I think I've talked myself into leaving well enough - alone !

regards, Richard

 

[M.I.5¾]

This is a pure hardware question that has nothing to do with XP.

Ask elsewhere

ps. at least you RECOGNIZED your post was off topic. I guess that's
part of your cure. The next step is to NOT post OT crap here.

Ignore our resident mentally retarded ****wit.

Your question belongs in a hardware newsgroup - which this is.