heat sink fan

[Dogdirt]

hello. I have been running AMD Athlon 1800 xp box retail on my ASUS A7V266-E motherboard for about eight weeks. Temperature ran at around 49 degrees Celsius to a high of 59 degrees Celsius when I would play NASCAR 2002 demo. The stock heat sink fan on the CPU was around 4400 RPM. Yesterday, I installed a cool masterHHC-001heat sink fan with Arctic Silver 3. Temperatures are running at 45 degrees Celsius. When I played the Demo game benchmark, 50 degrees Celsius was as high as it would get. Now to my question. The cool master fan is running at 6800 RPM. It is a lot louder than the stock fan that was on the stock heat sink. I am thinking that maybe the extra 2000 RPM's could be the problem. Can I take the fan that only ran 4400 RPM's from the old heat sink and put it on and replace the new fan on the new heat sink?

[Cricket]

Hi Dogdirt,

You can swap the fans around so that the stock fan is on the CoolerMaster heatsink, but your temps are going to go back up. If the CoolerMaster is one of the aluminum ones that is bigger than the stock heatsink, your temps will be a little lower than with the stock heatsink/fan combo. But if it's a copper heatsink, your temps may go higher than before because copper heatsinks need a strong fan to remove the heat from them.

Unfortunately, that's the trade off. Use a quiet heatsink/fan and you get higher temps. Use a loud heatsink/fan and you get lower temps.

If you want to try a quiet heatsink that works well at keeping your CPU temps down, take a look at the Zalman heatsink/fan units: Zalman Tech

Cricket

[muTe]

Yes you can change the fan. The stock fan won't move as much air as the cooler master does, but if the heatsink is a good one, you'll probably get good results. Give it a try!

Dim3x

[Dogdirt]

thanks Crickett. I had a strange feeling speed and heat were going to go hand in hand. I checked out the link. I cannot justify buying another heat sink at the present time. I am just going to have to put up with the noise. A more dramatic experience playing flight simulator 2000, I'm sure. The cool master heat sink is copper with heat pipe technology. In a day or two, after the Arctic Silver straightens out, I might experiment and change to the stock fan just to see what kind of temperatures do pop-up. I will post the results on this thread. So far, the AMD 1800 xp is running very stable at 1680 MHz with a FSB of 140 with a multiplier of 12.

[Dogdirt]

hi again. This is a follow-up to my heat sink fan sound dilemma. I took Dimm 3x advise and put the stock AMD fan on the cool master heat sink. The idle temperature is forty-eight degrees Celsius. Again, using NASCAR 2002 demo benchmark the temperature rose to 56 degrees Celsius. I guess what I am trying to say is that the temperature jumped three degrees Celsius with a fan turning 2000 RPM less. So far, everything is very stable with no lockups. The temperatures definitely increased, just like Cricket said. I personally do not feel I am out of bounds yet with these temperatures.

[Cricket]

Hi Dogdirt,

As long as your system doesn't lock up or freeze, the heatsink/fan is doing it's job. If you're satisfied with the noise levels, leave it as it is and enjoy your PC.

Cricket