Need a heatsink for a Celeron 566

[ahsia]

My friend has an old Celeron 566 system with the ABIT BE6-II motherboard. The Golden Orb he has is really loud, and he wanted to get a quiet HSF to replace it. The problem is this motherboard is a slot 1 board, and his Celeron 566 is socket 370, which mean he has a socket 370 > slot 1 converters. The way the HSF is attached right now, it nearly hits the first DIMM slot, so this new HSF cannot be very big. Any suggestion is appreciated!

 

[2Cool]

Best for that setup would be the Alpha PEP66, which was actually designed for slotket mounting.

Otherwise any low profile socket 370 heatsink would work, especially ones designed for 1U/2U rack mounting...

 

[jiffylube1024]

pretty much any low profile Socket 370 HSF (which are the most common HSF out there right now) should do it.

 

[ahsia]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
pretty much any low profile Socket 370 HSF (which are the most common HSF out there right now) should do it.

Can you name a few for example?

 

[Acts837]

KD Computers sells low profile HSFs

 

[GiZzO]

I second the Alpha PEP66, its perfect for your slotket setup. The PEP66 is not as tall as the Golden orb so there shouldn't be a problem of taking a DIMM slot. Get this sink and the AddA low speed fan, it will be almost zero noise (you won't hear it from a foot away). It will be safe the 566 puts out bearly any heat you could run the HS almost fanless so no worries.

GiZzO's Fan Database Page

 

[BA]

A PEP66 would be good.

Or as GiZzO alluded to, a Celeron 566 is a pretty viable candidate for passive cooling. If you don't put a fan on the heatsink, that saves you 20 or 25mm. My recommendations for that would be a GlobalWin FDP-32 or FEP-32, but they take a little bit of work to get on an FCPGA processor.

 

[ahsia]

That's for all the ideas. I will look into those....

 

[ShinSa]

The alpha66 will kill the first dimm slot on a BE6-II. It wont matter if your only using 2 sticks though.

 

[nnnyyy]

The golden orb isnt that loud especially compared to a 1u/low profile heatsink fan. Now those little 60x60x10mm fans are really loud. Maybe the ideal solution is to get a low profile heatsink and match it with a quiet 60mm fan like the stealth fans. Whatever solution you choose, it will probabl run about $30.
I would just sell that cpu with the slotket and the golden orb and buy a retail p3 slot1 chip. It will probably overclock nicely, the stock fan is a quiet as it gets, and you get a performance boost for basically nothing.

 

[frastini]

taisol 733?

the vantec copper heatsinks are kinda short too, find a quieter 60x60 replacement for em

 

[EdipisReks]

how about a coolermaster DP5-5G11B? looks low profile, doesn't look loud, and it's hard to beat $5.

 

[ahsia]

Originally posted by: nnnyyy
The golden orb isnt that loud especially compared to a 1u/low profile heatsink fan. Now those little 60x60x10mm fans are really loud. Maybe the ideal solution is to get a low profile heatsink and match it with a quiet 60mm fan like the stealth fans. Whatever solution you choose, it will probabl run about $30.
I would just sell that cpu with the slotket and the golden orb and buy a retail p3 slot1 chip. It will probably overclock nicely, the stock fan is a quiet as it gets, and you get a performance boost for basically nothing.

It's not loud when it's clean. I spend about an hour cleaning the Golden Orb, and what a difference. It now sounds much better, I can actually hear the hard drive sometimes. I will consider those suggestion if in time there is a need for a replacement. Thanks for all the help!