What is the best CPU fan for max cooling?

[Darth Joules]

What is THE BEST heat sink fan (and heat sink) for and an AMD CPU?

I like the look of Coolmaster's Areo 7+. it's manual speed control is
a plus, but I've heard it's a bit "buzzy" at full speed. Vantec's
Areocool, the one with a magnetic drive for the fan, looks very good
and I've heard it performs very well.

What can people recomend? I will be overclocking my AMD 2800+ a tad,
but I cannot afford (or risk) water cooling/vapo-chill just yet. So
what is the best CPU fan at cooling down the CPU? I want to get the
temperature as low as possible (say 30 degrees C whilst idle). Looks
aren't important, performance is.


Cheers,

Darth Joules

 

[Charles Hammond]

I like the Speeze Falcon Rock. It is oversized on top and accomodates a
8cm fan. This cooler is cheap and it works very well.

 

[kony]

What is THE BEST heat sink fan (and heat sink) for and an AMD CPU?

I like the look of Coolmaster's Areo 7+. it's manual speed control is
a plus, but I've heard it's a bit "buzzy" at full speed. Vantec's
Areocool, the one with a magnetic drive for the fan, looks very good
and I've heard it performs very well.

What can people recomend? I will be overclocking my AMD 2800+ a tad,
but I cannot afford (or risk) water cooling/vapo-chill just yet. So
what is the best CPU fan at cooling down the CPU? I want to get the
temperature as low as possible (say 30 degrees C whilst idle). Looks
aren't important, performance is.


Cheers,

Darth Joules

I'd recommend not worrying about getting it down to 30C @ idle and
instead look for something quiet enough to use... it's really easy to
buy based on performance then later be annoyed at the noise level.
You might buy something using a _standard_ 80mm x 25mm fan then you
have broad choices for replacing the fan for different noise levels or
if the original fan starts getting flaky.

"Usually" you won't get much additional o'c out of a CPU running it
cooler than 40C, but do probably want to keep it under 55C.

Here's one list, there are plently of heatsink roundups on the 'net
too. Keep in mind which fan a 'sink is using to achieve the reported
results.
http://www.overclockers.com/articles373/


Dave