looking for a smaller cpu cooler

mark19891989 · Post by **mark19891989** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:50 am

I brought a smaller case: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/134831

My current cooler: OCZ vanquisher, is abit to tall to fit inside,only be about 1-2cm so i am looking for a smaller one.

The 3 i have seen so far are:
Scythe Shuriken
Scythe Mini Ninja (not sure if this one will fit?)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Low profile

Which one of these (or others you can sugest will be able to cool a Intel E5200 over clocked to 3.75ghz)

Thanks Markp1989

mark19891989 · Post by **mark19891989** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 12:16 pm

just measured my case, the Scythe Mini Ninja will fit, one question, is the fan connector 4pin pwm or 3pin?

edit: nm , just checked, its not pwm.

SebRad · Post by **SebRad** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:59 pm

Hi, if the Ninja-Mini will fit then I'd go with it, probably one of the best coolers given your height restriction.
If you need a PWM fan ebuyer have a couple of Akasa ones but I would expect them to be awful and best avoided!
Arctic Cooling do PWM fans, available from QuietPC http://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/manufa ... ic_cooling
I'm using 120mm version and have used 92mm version and both are good, I'd expect the 80mm version to be good too. The Ninja-Mini (minja) will take 92mm fan as well as 80mm, the 92mm fan may extend above the height of the tower and so be too tall for your case.
Don't know anything about it but Scyth 92mm PWM fan.

My case isn't very wide and won't take a 120mm tower cooler, I have a 120mm fan fitted to a BTF-90 "butterfly" cooler, the fan is pretty much sitting on the motherboard to fit in the case width. You may end up with something similar.
edit - My CPU Cooling Now Q9400 CPU, fan is now 120mm AC PWM and paper now black gaffer tape as seams to stick better in hot conditions!
Regards, Seb

mark19891989 · Post by **mark19891989** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 4:30 am

Hey, thanks for the reply, i ordered a ninja mini, i have a spare 4pin pwm fan from an old celeron D cooler, not the best out there, but its pretty quiet when running at low speed (1000rpm) so i will use this fan with the ninja mini till i buy somthing better.

i used ebuyers cheapest shipping option , so it wont be here till next friday, so im stuck with the e5200s stock cooler, which in my opinion sucks.

mark19891989 · Post by **mark19891989** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:26 am

My mini ninja arived today,

Im running the stock fan , at 7v, cannot hear it, just doing super pi tests to see how hot it gets.

mark19891989 · Post by **mark19891989** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:34 am

mark19891989 wrote:My mini ninja arived today,

Im running the stock fan , at 7v, cannot hear it, just doing super pi tests to see how hot it gets.

currently i have the fan set to pull the air throught the heat sink, then push it out the side of the case, not sure if there is a better way to mount it.

mark19891989 · Post by **mark19891989** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 9:44 am

I just tried running the hsf fanless, the CPU Itself stays cool enough, but without the air flow of the cpu fan (the only 1 in my system, the chip set runs abit hotter, (only about 50C)

considering that i cannot hear the fan running at 7v, and it keeps the chipset cooler, i may aswell just leave the fan on.

edit: this is running the cpu at stock speeds.

mark19891989 · Post by **mark19891989** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:57 am

I just turned on my pc this morning, and the mini ninja seems noisy :S im running at minimal speeds, as i was before, but now it was silent, now it making a droning kind of noise :S

new2spcr · Post by **new2spcr** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:15 am

mark19891989 wrote:I just turned on my pc this morning, and the mini ninja seems noisy :S im running at minimal speeds, as i was before, but now it was silent, now it making a droning kind of noise :S

I also have the Ninja Mini, and swapped the stock fan with a Nexus 92 mm @ 850 rpm. It is very quiet.

new2spcr · Post by **new2spcr** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:24 am

mark19891989 wrote: only 1 in my system, the chip set runs abit hotter, (only about 50C)

You don't have a case fan?
The 7300GS produces quite a bit of heat (I have the same card), and if you don't have a case fan, there's a risk that the excess heat from your hot components such as GPU, northbridge etc, will slowly build up inside your case.

You may consider a Scythe S-flex 800 rpm as your system fan together with a Zalman Fanmate2, the fan voltage regulator. I'm running mine @ less than 500 rpm, and it keeps my system reasonably cool... not optimal but not dangerously hot either.

RoGuE · Post by **RoGuE** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 4:35 am

mark19891989 wrote:I just turned on my pc this morning, and the mini ninja seems noisy :S im running at minimal speeds, as i was before, but now it was silent, now it making a droning kind of noise :S

check the fan mount. Most likely its vibrating against one of the fins and causing that "droning" noise.

also, pick yourself up a scythe 120mm fan for the case. U wanna changed out that gpu air fast enough so that it doesn't make its way into the cpu cooler.