Cooling the AMD XP 2200+

What is the best HSF (heatsink/fan) I can get to cool my 2200 (aside from liquid cooling)?

I know there are some speed freaks out there so speak up.

[Uranium-235]

Something totally copper, to start off with.

I have been using a Volcano7+ for my OCed 1700+ and it works great. The most important thing is to keep your AC on super cold. If I could make it snow indoors I would

Humm, that's my problem now with my 1700+. If I don't run the ceiling fan and keep the AC on sub-zero, my heat warning goes off. I left my puter on and the ceiling fan off the other day and my CPU temp jumped up to 140 F in no time at all.

I need a HSF that DON'T rely upon my ambiant temp or air flow to cool it.

My first choice was the Volcano 7+ with copper shim, but now I'm doubting that will do the job.

Maybe I should make a puter case out of an old fridge.

I'm gona start water cooling pretty soon

[MIK3]

yeah im sure keefes new post on the review of the nitro coold pc would help ya out a bit smoked1, but im sure ur a pro anyway. As for cooling your beast CiKoTic, i would recoment the volcano 9...check it out at http://www.coolpc.com/, but smoked's 7+ does run at 1200 more RPM, but this one claims to support up to the AMD 2600+'s so its all a matter of opinion really...but talk to these guys about it, they'll get ya the best

Yeah, they look pretty good but I have not got one yet. That would probably be the one to get but with the lower RPMs I would like to see a complete comparison.

I'm not completly sure I agree with the direction Thermaltake is going with the variable speed HSF's. Personally, I would want my HSF to provide max cooling BEFORE the temp started to rise.

However, the numbers and reviews seems to support Thermaltakes stance that this is a sound design. Therefore, I think I'll take a chance and go with soccer_studs recommendation of the Volcano 9.

That's a good desition. I read that the Volcano 9 let's you do it whatever way you want, where the 7+ only gives you the option of a speed switch.

[Omega]

I know the ThermalRight SK6-Pro was a monster for AMD T-Bird processors (I have one running on my AMD T-Bird 1 GHz), but I'm not sure how high it's rated.