HedgeHog v. SupaOrb v. Peltier

[Red_Zealot]

I am building a system for a LAN party with a 800 MHz AMD athlon. I plan to overclock it to 1.0 or 1.1 GHz. For cooling, I have the Tornado 1000 Case from 3dcool and a blue orb for my Video Card. This computer will be taken to Lan Parties and will thus need to be able to run UT and similar for about 10 hours straight, and noise is no worry. That's why the Blorb for the video. So now I need a CPU cooler... I am deciding between the SupaOrb and the Kanie all-copper HedgeHog. If both could push the processor to 1.1 GHz, I would prefer the cheaper SupaOrb. And I've heard good things about Peltier systems...how and where do those work? Are they an alternative/add-on here? Thanks.

Abe
Intel = "I caNT bELieve you."

 

[mpjesse]

Why not a GlobalWin FOP38? To my knowledge that's the best HSF right now. Also consider water cooling with that setup.

-MP Jesse

 

[Lowlypawn]

I have a copper hedgehog and it works great. The only problem is it’s very heavy and moving the system around a lot could be a problem. I have also tried the FOP38+deltal and it’s worked about the same but way too much noise. Look into the Alpha PAL6035, cools just as well with less noise and less money.
Peltiers require another power supply and water for best cooling. Fitting all that into one case looks tricky and requires a big case (not great for moving around). As cheep as the 1.2 gig tbird is just buy that, OC it to 1.3 and be happy. Probable cost the same as any peltier or water cooling.

Cya

 

[Red_Zealot]

Yeah...the Alpha PAL6035 is what I'll have to go with. I've also decided to substitute the Blorb for the TennMax due to fitting issues with Asus motherboards and video cards. Speaking about 1.2 GHz Athlon, how would I overclock a system designed upon a 266 FSB? I know overclocking relies on an increase in either the FSB or the multiplier...but upgrading the bus in that case wouldn't be an issue (or would it?)...But I thought that the Athlons biggest muliplier setting was 12.5 or something...So how would I push the 1.2 with the 266 to 1.5? Does it have to do with the motherboard? Any recommendations on motherboards for the AMD 760 chipset that work with the coolers and support the overclocking I have described? Thanks

Abe
Intel = "I caNT bELieve you."

 

[flavio321]

get the cheapes of those fans and add a 75watt peltier.
peltier is basically a plate that goes between the heatsink and the cpu. it run electrical current to create a "peltier" affect. i don't know how the hell it works but the current somehow moves the heat from the cpu to the heat sink faster. much faster. a 75watt peltier combined with a fop38 will give you around freezing point temperature.

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[Guest]

Don't mess with a peltier unit, to many issues to deal with, and since it needs to run for 10 hours without any user maintenance you need air cooling only. I have tried the Global Win FOP 38, and to be honest the only reason it cools well is the massively fast and extremely loud Delta fan it uses. The heatsink if nothing more than an overgrown OEM heatsink that needs a huge fan to cool it down. I put a slightly smaller fan on the heatsink to eliminate the noise and the temps went up +5C. My personal gaming system uses a 1.2Ghz overclocked to 1370mhz using an ALPHA PAL6035 heatsink with the Sunon 30cfm, which is not loud, and my system never gets above 54C under full load, 35C idle, and I don't have to listen to a noisy fan or worry about condensation with a peltier unit. I also use Arctic Silver thermal compound for peace of mind to assist in heat trasfer. Stay away from the Hedgehog Copper heatsink, as it needs a massive fan to keep it cool like the Global Win FOP38. As always, use some sort of case cooling too. You will want to keep more than just the CPU cool in a game for 10 hours. As for the 266mhz FSB you are referring to, this is just a system FSB on a DDR equipped motherboard, 133mhz x 2, or you could refer to the CPU at 266mhz FSB in the same way, since the Athlons have always been on a DDR bus, 200mhz at first, and now 266mhz with PC133 RAM or DDR 266mhz RAM. The maximum actual FSB bus speed I have been able to run is 140mhz. Later.