quiet little money cpu cooler

[DesperateDan]

Hi, I,m novice I.ve just built my first system everything seeks ok, but the humming for the cpu stock fan is annoying, can you please tell a cheap quiet cpu cooler I can use, I don't play games I don't have any pci cards yet, your advice would be much appreciated

[Ciro]

Welcome to PureOC

I don't really keep up with what's good on the AMD front. But by having a quick browse i'd probably get the Arctic cooling Alpine 64. If you don't game, and don't plan on overclocking it looks like a nice little upgrade from the stock cooler.

Here's some reviews: Frosty-Tech - ProOverclockers - rbmods.com

All of the reviewers agree that it is very quiet and a good upgrade option for non-overclockers.

Hope that helps

[say what]

Yes, the Arctic cooling CPU coolers are nice and quiet but I personally own the PRO version and its great, but its a little more expensive than the Alpine version but you can see it ----> Here <--------

[DesperateDan]

Thanks for that guys, I think I'll go for the 64 pro would you use the thermal past thats already on the the cooler or clean it off and use arctic 5? one more question I have a sata hdd and a sata dvd-rw, I want to install a IDE dvd-rom I have two IDE connectors on the board one is blue and one is black whick one do I use and do I have to do anything in the bios

[say what]

I think the paste already on it is, or is really close to Arctic 5, but i personally used arctic 5 because i had some laying around.

It doesnt matter which IDE slot you choose, and if you havent disabled IDE in the BIOS i think you will be fine

[Jameson]

the pro is great, its very quiet. it does indeed come with good quality thermal paste pre-applied, too.

[DesperateDan]

Excellent, thanks to all for your help, Great forum, I'll be back.

[say what]

Just remember to clean it regularly, dust gets lodged in those fins if you dont clean it.....the point of this post, have air duster handy

[Gareth]

http://www.amptron.com/html/bios.beepcodes.html

Hope that helps you, it explains the American Megatrend BIOS codes.

[DesperateDan]

I just installed a Zalman 9500 AM2 cpu cooler it worked fine but when I connected the fan mate 2, I got two beebs and a error message saying American megatrends press F1 to continue so I Did and it went on to window desktop, it was working ok without the fan, I disconnected the fan again and connected it up as normal no problem, do I have to go into the bios to disable the fan detector to get fan cotroller to work, and what heading would it come under

[DesperateDan]

I got it sorted the fan is in silent mode now very quiet, I was a bit nerous of going into the bios but it was easyer than I thought navigating to where you wanted to go, my confidence is growing by the day
but I would be totall lost without the help from people like yourself. I'll be back