Thermaltake SILENT BOOST Highest Performance Cooler for AMD AthlonXP up to 3400+ -RETAIL

[cisco911]

Thermaltake SILENT BOOST Highest Performance Cooler for AMD AthlonXP up to 3400+ -RETAIL
http://www.newegg.com/app/View...=35-106-037&depa=0

I am buying this heatsink to run on my 2500 oc to 3200. I have to run a slight voltage bump to get it to run there. This HSF should keep me under 50C wont it? Please post your thoughts. Thanks.

 

[Operandi]

Thermaltake = junk.

Here are my recomendations.

Vantec AeroFlow
Zalman 7000B AlCu
Thermalright ALX-800 (out of stock)
Thermalright SI-97 (best of the best)
Alpha PAL8045

The Vantec is the best deal but its going to the loudest unless you cut the down the speed of the fan. The Zalman is a popular choice but requires you have the four mounting holes around the socket for it be installed. Same story with the Alpha, great performance though. The Thermalrights are easy to install and offer great performance but don't included a fan so you'll need to provide your own or buy it separately.

 

[Justorq]

I completely disagree with you on this one.
Thermaltake is pretty much king of bang for the buck CPU coolers. It is near silent, and cools exceptionally well for the price. You might get better performance with thermalright or zalman heatsinks, but thermaltake has them beat in the price. As for the HSF keeping you under 25C, if you don't change your vcore to 1.7V, you should be fine. My vcore is at 1.7V and the diode reports 50C and the sensor under the socket reads 46C.

Go for the Thermaltake. Like I said, the fan is very quiet.

Justin

 

[Operandi]

I guess that depends on your defenition of "very quiet", the Silentboost doesn?t fit mine. Most fan specs are exaggerated to a fair degree but Thermaltake?s claim of 21 dBA is way, way off, pretty much an outright lie.....

You will defiantly get better cooling performance from an Alpha, Thermalright or Zalman.

 

[cisco911]

Ok but will that one keep a 2500 oc to 3200 fairly cool? like under 50C loaded?? I also have a faster fan to put on it if needed.

 

[Operandi]

Originally posted by: cisco911
Ok but will that one keep a 2500 oc to 3200 fairly cool? like under 50C loaded?? I also have a faster fan to put on it if needed.

Look at my first post, anyone of those. The Alpha, Zalman and SI-97 being the better ones.

 

[Thermalrock]

thermalrock silentrock is the only way to go.
that or arctic cooling
or what the italian guy said.

 

[imported_Kiwi]

Originally posted by: cisco911
Thermaltake SILENT BOOST Highest Performance Cooler for AMD AthlonXP up to 3400+

I am buying this heatsink to run on my 2500 oc to 3200. I have to run a slight voltage bump to get it to run there. This HSF should keep me under 50C wont it? Please post your thoughts. Thanks.

As several have advised, your choice is not bad if noise is a problem. Among aftermarket HSF's generally, the low-noise ones don't cool as well as true "high performance" units. But I have a Silent Boost that I got for less than $20 from a local retailer. It works quite well for an XP 2800 running at stock (non-OC) speed in a PowMax mid-Tower that has only a single (exhaust, below the psu) case fan. I am about to transfer that system in its entirety, to a smaller case to use for an HTPC, but am at an impasse for a good psu.

In another, less roomy (than the bigger PowMax) case, I have a Vantec AeroFlow that cost five dollars more, plus another five for shipping, and is somewhat more noisy (but not really super loud). It really keeps that AMD XP 2600 very cool in that system. Neither of the two I named is expensive. The Zalman unit is quite a bit more money. I don't know anything about the Alpha, and can't recall right now what the price point is on the two Thermalright hsf's named in the thread.

 

[Justorq]

Like I said, I have the silent boost and i've overclocked my 2500+ to 2GHz. I can't go higher just because I have bad memory.
This is my opinion though and our hearing is not equal. The HSF's that operandi mentionned WILL do a better job than the thermaltake silent boost with the exception of the Vantec Aeroflow (great idea on paper, but the fan is too loud and vibrates a lot and it's pretty much equal with the thermaltake in terms of performance). The only problem is that these HSF's will cost you more than the Silent Boost. You're better off paying less and getting the silent boost, because you'll get the overclock you want.

Justin

 

[xbassman]

I am gonna have to have to chime in here also....
I have a SilentBoost on my HTPC and think it is a fine cooler.
Using a Panaflo H1A in place of the fan that comes with it, I only topped 50C @ 100%load with vcore set to 1.8v. Using the same fan w/stock settings it tops out @ 43C.
This is in a small case inside an audio cabinet using 1 80mm L1A as an intake and 2 60mm L1A's exhaust.

It can use a low flow fan much better than the Thermalright ALX-800 also.
That said, it doesn't cool as well as the Thermalright SLK-800U I have in my main box, but looks like it stole some design queues from the SLK series.