Vantec Aeroflow (SktA)

[kinney]

I have a Alpha PAL6035 with a 60->80mm fan adapter and a 3dcool.com 80mm fan. It creates some airflow turbulence due to the adapter and the fan itself. I was looking into replacing my strange contraption with a Vantec Aeroflow, its new and looks pretty cool. I suspect it performs better than what I already have, or at least on par.
And I bet its not nearly as heavy or as tall as my current setup.

I looked into the new thermaltake (11+) as I've used some of their early volcanos in the past with good results but it appears to be mostly gimmick.

I like other vantec products and have become quite a fan (haha) lately.

Any comments? Would it be silly to replace a alpha hs (generally the best out there) with something else such as this?

Note, I'm more concerned though with quietness than performance but I want a cooler that can hold up a stock 3200+ if need be.

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[sjonnie]

I think it would be a good option. It is difficult to be quiet and get high cooling performance but the Vantec Aeroflow seems to acheive that. One other cooler than potentially delivers better performance and can be made super quiet is the Thermal Transtech NP2 but it doesn't seem to be available anywhere.

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[4Ryan6]

I'm running a Vantec Aeroflow, with Artic Silver III thermal compound, its real nice a lot quieter than my previous heatsinks, and its design allows it to also throw some air to the RAM and Chipset on my M/B, since it expells air from all four sides of the heatsink, temps run under load around 42c, thats 4c hotter than the Swiftech MCX462, I was running and a heck of a lot quieter. I'm very satisfied with it and probably will never go back to the dustbuster days as long as this heatsink is available, Quiet is good.

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[kinney]

when you say quiet, do you mean unnoticable or very quiet?

I know its hard to judge or explain but I am also very tired of loud dustbusters. I had a very loud 60mm fan on my alpha hs before, supposedly the biggest baddast 60mm fan it pushed a lot of air but was so loud.

even with my 60->80mm adapter the way the air moves creates turbulence and more noise, its just not as high pitched.

im a believer now in fans and hs's that were matched together to be quiet.

i always look at vantec products first because i've always thought they make solid stuff and was surprised to see this HS so popular.

i have some of the original arctic silver from years past in my toolbox still, but its prob gone bad. 🙁

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[error_911]

an aeroflow on a 3200?? not gonna work dude - i've got one on my athlon 2200, and i get idle temps at 30*C and load temps of about 40*C... with that core, you'll be looking at 60*C load if not higher
...though it is pretty quiet... lol

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