A64 3400+ Cooling??

[evilfud]

i just bought the A64 3400+ (754)and Abit max3 MB i plan to OC and need some good suggestions for air cooling or water cooling if i can get into it for around $100..Air i will spend around $50 give me some links on some good cooling.

Thanks,
Chris

 

[akira34]

You won't find any water cooling rigs that will cool well enough to OC for around $100 (or under). For about $200 you can get a decent system. For $300 (or so) you can build/assemble a really good liquid cooling system for your processor and more (for when you want to add your video card to the system and/or hard drives too).

I'd suggest sifting through the recent threads (ones hit in the past month or so) since there are more than a few recommendations there for both types of cooling.

 

[EngenZerO]

swiftech mcx6400-v

great sink.

Swiftech MCX6400-V @ FrozenCPU

The link below, a picture of the same heatsink with a 92mm Panaflow.

EngenZerO's Swiftech on his Mobo

 

[Operandi]

The swiftech is really nice

Some other considerations, Alpha PAL8150, Thermalright SLK-948U, Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu. You can't really go wrong with any of those as they are considered some of the best air coolers, but the Alpha and the Zalman (includes fan) would be the cheaper of the bunch.

 

[koojoe]

I built my setup for my athlon 64 system...

Via Aqua 1300 Pump - not a bad pump at all.. $17
Clearflex 60 - 10ft $10
Maze 4 GPU $35
Maze 4 CPU $40
1977 Bonneville Heatercore w/AC $17
2 120mm fans I had laying around $free
clamps $5
t-section stuff $5
Drill & Bits to mod my case.. no problem.. u can use an external box like a rubbermaid container


so what's that?

139?


Not too bad.. skip out on the GPU block and it is $100
I keep the room at 80F and get cpu temps of 37C idle. 41C load. Well I just set my system up so it should go down some with the thermal goop setting in.

Cooling a 3000 A64 Processor. I need a better mobo to OC more :frown:

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I've always been a fan of the slk (slk900 is the latest I believe) series of heatsinks. I think they make an a64 mountable heatsink.

 

[Operandi]

Originally posted by: koojoe
I built my setup for my athlon 64 system...

Via Aqua 1300 Pump - not a bad pump at all.. $17
Clearflex 60 - 10ft $10
Maze 4 GPU $35
Maze 4 CPU $40
1977 Bonneville Heatercore w/AC $17
2 120mm fans I had laying around $free
clamps $5
t-section stuff $5
Drill & Bits to mod my case.. no problem.. u can use an external box like a rubbermaid container


so what's that?

139?


Not too bad.. skip out on the GPU block and it is $100
I keep the room at 80F and get cpu temps of 37C idle. 41C load. Well I just set my system up so it should go down some with the thermal goop setting in.

Cooling a 3000 A64 Processor. I need a better mobo to OC more :frown:

wow, somhow I don't think thats what evilfud had in mind.

 

[habba]

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