Scythe Ninja-PLUS Rev B opinions please

[Abarbarian]

Hi folks any thoughts on this heatsink . Will it provide totally silent cooling for my set-up bearing in mind that I'm a cruncher .

 

[V_R]

All the Tower coolers are good. But beware it is big and chekc it will fit your mobo.

Another option is the Tuniq Tower 120

 

[muckshifter]

Another "heatpipe" solution ... trouble is, nobody takes a blind bit of notice of that technology and its implementation or impact on a CPU.

You will need a fan!

 

[Abarbarian]

Thanks guys . I have read all the reviews and it comes with a fan . Was wondering if anyone had any first hand knowledge of it .

 

[Abarbarian]

Reason I'm thinking of a change is that me Zallman is good and very good with Cool and Quiet , but with Cool and Quiet enabled I have to press F1 every time I start me pc which is not very good . We are looking at quite a significant drop in temps with the Cool and Quiet so I think its worth using especialy as I'm crunching and looking to make my sytem run at its best for as long as possible .
With the antec case I have you can put a fan on the side with a duct for the cpu . Well I did this and only got a temp drop of 1 to 2 degrees , I modified the duct to go right over the cpu and managed to get another 1 degree drop . I'm not realy happy with the temps and would like to lowere them as much as possible . Yes I could have all my fans running at max , but who the heck wants to sit next to a tractor . I want ioo% cpu use at 0 degrees in total silence now I don't think thats too much to ask for in this day and age .

 

[muckshifter]

Cool and Quiet in conjunction with 'crunchin' is a contradictory of terms.


C&Q is a great 'idea' for laptops, pretty redundant on a Desktop ... what C&Q management, located under 'power options' are you using ?

You will also need a HSF, sorry, a fan, that has speed control capabilities to use C&Q on another HS.

What you need is a 386, or an early 486, as they did not require HSFs ... very quiet indeed.


Don't let me stop you trying.

 

[Abarbarian]

I've followed the Cool and Quiet guide and had the system working . There is an issue with the Zalman fan as I've mentioned . I think the technology is good , it reduces temps automaticaly which is a good thing and it seemed to work well for me . Just need a different fan . Of course I could replace the fan on the zalman its quite a simple job for anyone with an ounce of common sense . But I've got into geek mode and realy like the sound of the Ninja so I recon I'm gonna go for it .

As to C+Q and crunching , even though I'm running at nearly 100% all the time the C+Q does seem to keep temps down lower than without it running . I'm going to do a test tonight or tommorow and will post some results .

lower temps = longer life = more money for the good things in life

Cheers for the input folks .

 

[PotGuy]

"In May 2006 Intel announced that production of the 80486 would cease at the end of September 2007"

Had no idea they were still used for embedded systems.

Anyway it rings a bell that the 486's were the first processors that required a dedicated lump of metal to cool them. I may be talking out my arse however