Zalman 7000cu cooler temps.

[Afruu]

Hello i want to know what sort of tempreture readings you lot get on the Zalman 7000cu HSF on a pentium 4 800 processor, readings from a slowest fan speed to highest please.

[Alan]

I'll let you know by Monday. Fitting a 3GHz 'C' processor this weekend.

[Afruu]

thx alan, im now continplating wither or not to get water cooling instead cos i now have the money to get either. let me know what temp readings your getting so i can summerise what to get. thx

[Creosote]

I am/was getting around 38-40C on idle and 54-56C on heavy load. Thats with a bracket mounted 80mm fan blowing air onto the Zalman.
I only have one case fan running slowly at 7v - in an attempt to make a silent PC. So the air venting from the system is fairly restricted.
Ran numerous benchmarks etc etc and didn't get any instability problems.

[Afruu]

thank you. i was getting worried cos i heard that the idle temp was 60+... well thx for that, but im comtinplating if i should get water cooling instead as its more effective as i intend to oc the processor.

[Alan]

3GHz 'C' processor is giving me 37 to 41° C on idle and up to 54°C after gaming. That's with the fan turned down a bit.