Recommandation for heatsink to replace retail heatsink

[MartinJHolm]

The retail heatink-fan combo has a very annoying high pitched sound, so I would like to hear if anyone knows of a good replacement.

I have already tried a Zalman17-Cu it is too small to fit, currently I have a Thermaltake GF4 cooler on it with thermal tape (fan at 7V) it is ok for now, but I'm looking for a more permanent solution!

Has anyone tried the Alpha PAL 15U lowprofile, it's very expencive though!

[Guru]

On what card?

[MartinJHolm]

Sorry, the Parhelia of course, I cannot remember any noise problems with other Matrox cards not even G400MAX

[luni]

Any copper 60mm 1U heatsink, I guess. I have a modded Alpha PAL6035 on there, you could maybe get the short CoolJag?

[K6-III]

I'll suggest a 60mm 1U copper heatsink as well...

[MartinJHolm]

luni:

WOW, how the h*ll did you fit that huge chunk of copper on the card?

I'm thinking about getting a lowprofile heatsink and then drill holes so it will fit, but I cannot seem to find any here in Denmark except the Alpha one and it is about 500 kr ($66/€63)!

So if you know a webshop that will ship to Denmark let me know.

TIA

[Gohan]

I've installed the Titan CUV2AB on my Parhelia:

[Guru]

Originally posted by Gohan
I've installed the Titan CUV2AB on my Parhelia:

Why would you wnat to do that?

[GNEP]

Beacuse it's shiny of course...

[Gohan]

Originally posted by Guru


Why would you wnat to do that?

Its more silent. The Matrox cooler is extremly loud.

[DGhost]

Matrox cooler is pretty quiet over here. louder than most video card coolers, but still a lot quieter than most of the orb type fans i have ever seen.

plus, the titan coolers are pretty junky...

[ALBPM]

Here, I went through two different Heat Sink Mods
on the Parhelia. It starts with the big aluminum "Cold CPU" Heat Sink and ends with the copper "Cool Jag" which I finally kept on my Parhelia.

Heat Sink Mods

Paul

[luni]

Originally posted by MartinJHolm
luni:

WOW, how the h*ll did you fit that huge chunk of copper on the card?

I'm thinking about getting a lowprofile heatsink and then drill holes so it will fit, but I cannot seem to find any here in Denmark except the Alpha one and it is about 500 kr ($66/€63)!

So if you know a webshop that will ship to Denmark let me know.

TIA

Nothing too huge about PAL6035, its a 60x60mm base copper embeded heatsink, which used to rule the socket370/a scene a while ago. I took a dremel, shortened the pins, shortened the fan screws enough that I could mount a low-profile silent 60mm fan and slapped it on with a superglue in corners.

[borat]

this is going on mine:

http://www.akasa.com.tw/akasa/coolers/ak350/ak350.htm

its copper and low profile but can handle an xp2200 so should be able to push parhelia to its voltage limit.

[MartinJHolm]

I found a pretty cheap heatsink, and although it's all aluminium it should be much better than the retail one:

It's the ALPHA S1560-30

http://www.micforg.co.jp/en/cat_se.html

It's a general purpose heatsink with no holes and no clips, and I think that's actually an advantage.

I will make two holes to match the ones on the retail heatsink and some holes in the corners so that I can attach a low noise Papst 60mm fan.

I'll let you know how it turns out.....