thermaltake silentboost

[mb26]

i've been considering which heatsink to get for a mobile athlon XP 2500 for a while..

the thermaltake silentboost seems quite good; quiet, cheap, and unlikely to have compatibility promlems with fitting on my motherboard.

so i'm wondering about the overclocking room one of these could give me?

what overclocks have people got/ heard about with one of these? the voltage i guess is the more important part as its this that gives the heat right?.

also, what is the difference between the ball bearing version (http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/volcano/rs/a1889b.htm) and the "Hydro Wave Bearing" version (http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/volcano/rs/a1889a.htm) .. which is best?


another thing i just found is
this ('silent cat 9cm') (http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/comboCool/a2013silentCat9/SilentCat9.htm) .. please check it out..
its a 92mm fan like one on a silentboost, with a 92>80mm adaptor, and it pushes a respectable 52.24CFM, for only 21dBA.. which is approaching double the air pushed of the silentboost, and at the *same* sound level apparently.

would i be able to take the 80mm fan off the silentboost and use it as a case fan, and then use the 92mm fan (With adaptor) on the silentboost?

i imagine this would give me siginficantly more room for overclocking or lower temps, at the same noise level :)

also i'd think the 92-80mm adaptor would act as a spacer/duct somewhat, eliminating the dead spot somewhat.

also the extra 92mm fan says if has '1 Ball 1 Sleeve' bearing.. i've never seen a fan with both before whats this about?

[QuickSilver]

With a 2500+, any decent HSF combo should get you to 3200+ (2.2GHz), without a hitch.

[mb26]

yewa well i want ideally to go higher than that being as its a mobile :) (they can clock from 2500mhz to 2700 if u get a good one.. but they need lower voltages than a regular barton so it wouldn't be as hot at the same speed)

also does anyone know where to get these fans i mentioned? i can't see to find them and there is a 'sellers' list on thermaltake's website but it lists a million places and they dont all have everything.

[Brown Hornet]

newegg.com

[mb26]

no i don't see it there.
dont quote 'newegg.com' blindly if u dont know weather they have it, please

[Cricket]

Thermaltake Silent Boost (http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=Thermaltake%20silent%20boost&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wf).

:) Cricket

[FLG]

Newegg does have the silent boost, as for the silent cat i dont even think that its out just yet. And trust me i wanted one for my radiator but couldent find it.

[Cricket]

Originally posted by FLG
Newegg does have the silent boostYep, they sure do (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=35-106-037&depa=0).

:) Cricket

[mb26]

yea the fan was what i was talking about not the silentboost..

come on has anyone overclocked with a silentboost?.. yea i think it [the silent cat] is fairly new so maybe places havent got em yet?.. do u imagine it will work with the silentboost and i'll be able to reuse the fan thats on that as a case fan?

edit: sorry cricket i know what u were saying i just posted the same thing about an hour later b/c i thought i hadn't posted the reply earlier (as i pressed 'stop' but it obviously got through enough)

[Cricket]

Originally posted by mb26
no i don't see it there.Click on the "they sure do" line in my post. It's a direct link to the Silent Boost at Newegg.

:) Cricket

[Brown Hornet]

Originally posted by mb26
no i don't see it there.
dont quote 'newegg.com' blindly if u dont know weather they have it, please

they do have it

[mb26]

Originally posted by Brown Hornet
they do have it uh :rolleyes: Originally posted by mb26
also does anyone know where to get these fans i mentioned? Originally posted by mb26
yea the fan was what i was talking about not the silentboost.. let my make myself clear, i know newegg have the thermaltake silentboost but thats not what i was asking. i was asking where has the thermaltake silent cat 92mm fan, but it looks like nowhere does yet. lets hope no one else decides to tell me its at newegg. (until it is!)

anyway lets get back to the rest of the post now please...

like whats the deal with it having '1 Ball 1 Sleeve' bearing ?

[Brown Hornet]

do a google search

[mb26]

Originally posted by Brown Hornet
do a google search duhh why didn't i think of that.. oh.. yea, i did.

here, have a look (http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=%22Silent+Cat%22+thermaltake) for yourself.

they obviously aren't around yet as FLG has said.

FLG: any idea when they will be out?

Originally posted by mb26
anyway lets get back to the rest of the post now please... lets leave this availability thing behind.

[Brown Hornet]

here's what i found

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=thermaltake+silent+cat+92mm+fan&btnG=Google+Search

[FLG]

I dont know when it will be out, ive been looking though. Best way to find out is to E-Mail Tt and ask them.

[mb26]

Originally posted by Brown Hornet
here's what i found

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=thermaltake+silent+cat+92mm+fan&btnG=Google+Search and if u were to check all of those 1,720 sites, none of them are selling it yet, or even refer to (edit: other than the two sites i found; one in german and the other the thermaltake site) the product i was talking about.

perhaps u need to learn how to use google more effectively,
all those sites contained all of the words thermaltake silent cat 92mm and fan,
thermaltake - from anything the sell
silent - well they have a lot of 'silent' products, like the 'silentboost'
cat - from network cables eg Cat 5
and 92mm and fan can come from any 92mm fan or powersupply with one.

so all those sites could have been describing full systems for sale, or a page with many different computer products for sale on, or even a pc forum like this which could contain all those words in people's signatures.

anyway this discussion is over (with Brown Hornet)

FLG; hmm yea i will email them (well use the contact thing on their site) but god knows if they will reply before the next ice age..

[FLG]

I think Tt is pretty good, and should get back to ya. Also maybe an E-Mail to places like, newegg,directron..ect see if there getting it anytime soon.

[Brown Hornet]

mb26,no one is gonna do all the work for you,i was just trying to point you in a general direction.if i were you give up on this thread and wait for Tt to respond to your plea's. enjoy your day mate.

[mb26]

Brown Hornet; i didn't want anyone to do any work finding one for me.. the main point of this thread was to find out how the silentboost and silent cat fans performed with regards to overclocking etc. (shame this thread didn't turn out like that eh) from people who had used it, and weather i could attach the silent cat to a silentboost.
i asked if anyone knew where to get the silent cat fans as an afterthought, as i'd looked at newegg, directron etc and couldn't find them, but i didn't expect anyone who didn't know already to go searching for them on my behalf.
thanks for trying to help anyway... and yea i'd given up on the thread a long time ago really (other than flg i guess - thanks)