XP2500 cooler

[Welly]

Hello guys,

Looking for a suitably quiet cooler for my XP2500+. Am looking for basic overclocking abilities but the one I have right now, a CM XDream, is a little bit too loud. Any suggestions? The quieter the better!

Cheers,

Welly

[eXistenZ]

I have a Zalman on my 2500. silent, and excellent temps - most its ever got to is 48ºC on a very hot day with CPU at 100% for about 3 hours of UT :)

[Double Tap]

I have an SLK 800 on my 2400 runing at 2.2GHz and it keeps it at about 35-39C in the current hot weather

[Double Tap]

I did have but it seems to make no difference so I have taken it off again.

[Sharky]

You have it passively cooled???????? :eek: :eek: :eek:

[Double Tap]

Yup. I am not sure if I had just fitted the fan incorrectly but I had an 80mm fan on top and whether it was at full speen, low speed or off it only seemed to make about 0.5 to 1C difference so I thought sod it and took it off!

[Sharky]

You must have a fan near by surely!!!!!!!!

[PJ Matthews]

WTF? So much for P4s being uber cool.

[Double Tap]

I have case fans yeah, 2 intake at the back, 2 exhaust at the front, 1 mounted on a Zalmann bracket and 1 in the side

[Fireblade]

You've got em the wrong way round Double Tap... you mean intakes at the front, and exhausts at the rear I hope :eek: :D

[Double Tap]

Surely it doesn't matter as long as you have air flowing through the case!

[PJ Matthews]

Yeah I don't see much problem with airflow going that way other than the PSU messing up the whole airflow.

[Double Tap]

Why would the PSU screw it up?

[PJ Matthews]

Because the PSU exchausts.

[Fireblade]

Hey... no worries. If you're happy with it that way, that's all that matters ;)

I'd suggest however, that 99% of us have it the other way around :)