[mythtv-users] cpu cooling recommendations?

[Calvin Harrigan]

Dan Littlejohn wrote:

>There is this:
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>Zalman 6500CU fanless
>
>but I went with a 
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>CNPS6500B-Cu
>http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1210
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>It has a large 92mm fan and you could replace it with a 120mm if you have room.
>
>Really, you should just go over to www.silentpcreview.com and see all
>the ideas they have for cooling there.  I bet they even have a forum.
>
>Dan
>
>On 4/19/05, David Wood <obsidian at panix.com> wrote:
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>>I'm using a Spire Whisperrock IV
>>(http://www.spirecoolers.com/fcc.asp?prodid=105). It's cheap and quiet
>>enough for my (probably not-too-discerning) ears. Since I wasn't going to
>>make a diskless front end, there was going to be HD noise to begin with.
>>Some quiet CPU and case fans don't seem so much worse.
>>
>>I'd be curious to hear any heat pipe success stories as well.
>>
>>On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Aaron Aguilar wrote:
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>>>The fan on my AMD XP2100 is really loud and I want to upgrade to
>>>something that I can't hear from about 4 feet away, it also has to
>>>keep my proc cool obviously.  Should I invest in a fanless heatpipe?
>>>I would appreciate any ideas, suggestions, comments :D
>>>
>>>Aaron
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I'll second the zalman.  I own 2.  The fans run at about 1700 RPM, keeps 
an AMD 1800+ below 40C
and a 2200 below 45C while being barely audible.  I get more noise from 
my HD on one of my machines.  (Cheesy Maxtor, look at it die now that I 
called it cheesy.  :-/ ).

Calvin...