Cooling an Athlon XP 2500+ on an Abit NF7-S

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Cooling an Athlon XP 2500+ on an Abit NF7-S

Post by CjMoney » Fri May 13, 2005 7:26 pm

Please recommend a very quiet HS and fan or a fan I can put on the stock HS to quiet it down. I bought a Zalman al7000cu or something like that and took apart the entire pc only to find it doesnt fit on an NF7-S. I Have a cheap Vantec fan controller if that makes a difference (although i dont know how to use it for a HSF).

Thanks guys.

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Post by Rusty075 » Fri May 13, 2005 7:42 pm

Si-97 + Nexus 92mm.

That combination will be hard to be beat for socket A.

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Re: Cooling an Athlon XP 2500+ on an Abit NF7-S

Post by tay » Fri May 13, 2005 9:27 pm

If you can get another HSF get what rusty suggested and sell the zalman, else read on at your own peril.....
CjMoney wrote:Please recommend a very quiet HS and fan or a fan I can put on the stock HS to quiet it down. I bought a Zalman al7000cu or something like that and took apart the entire pc only to find it doesnt fit on an NF7-S.
Yeah several people on here have managed to shoehorned the zalman 7000 onto an NF7-S. I decided against it for the time being, but I'm gonna get a copper shim to protect the core and put it on. Here are some threads on the topic.
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=12646 (read coolmejoe's post)
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=17926
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=14152
http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40348 (scroll down for some beautiful ascii art. This is the most dangerous method IMO)

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Post by CjMoney » Fri May 13, 2005 10:27 pm

Thank you Tay but I returned the Zalman a few months ago. I think Im going with Rustys recommendation.

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Post by mr pink » Sat May 14, 2005 3:39 am

did you get rid of that noisy northbridge cooler?

I put a zalman n.b. heatsink on mine and a flower hs on the cpu. The fan blows on both of them as they are so close together. I actually had to bend in a few of the fins on the cpu cooler to get it to fit. One fan to cool them all!

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Post by CjMoney » Sat May 14, 2005 10:45 am

Omg thank you for the great tip. I didnt even realize that could be a noise generator. It completely slipped my mind. Thanks again I just ordered a Zalman NB47J.

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