Thermalright SI-97 CPU Cooling Heatsink

Comments: This cooler fits just about every motherboard out there. It is really hard to find a high end heatsink that doesnt mount with the 4 screws that go through the motherboard. This one is just a hare over the weight of the stock Athlon cooler and outperforms it substantially. In fact, as far as I know, this is the best performing air cooled Athlon XP heatsink available. It <font>d</font>ropped my temps a solid 10 degrees with the Panaflo 92mm medium CFM fan. It also quieted down my computer substantially. I highly reccomend this heatsink for its cooling ability, its weight, and its noise level at said cooling ability.

Comments: Awesome heatsink! A bit on the expensive side, considering you have to buy a separate fan, but well worth it. After scouring the web for information, many sites all agree that for Socket A systems, the SI-97 is the best you can get. Mine is paired with a 92mm Nexus fan @ 7V, and my temps are amazing. On a Athlon XP-M 2500+ at stock speeds and an ambient temp of 21°C, the highest I've ever seen my load temperature has been 40°C! It is a large heatsink, so make sure you have enough room to fit it...not only clearance with your case and power supply, but also with components surrounding the socket on your motherboard. It works on a DFI LANParty NFII Ultra B, but the heatpipes make slight contact with the plastic parallel port housing.

Comments: I bought this heatsink and let me tell you it just plain rocks! Bought a high speed 92mm panaflow fan to go with and used arctic silver 5. I have an AMD XP 2800+ running at 2.505 ghz and get 31 C idle and 38 C load with this sucker.

Comments: this beast keeps my m2600+ @ 2.42 Ghz and 1.7v under 50 C no matter what I throw at it. Teamed up with a panaflow, It idles at 32-34C. I can hear the capacitors on my motherboard over this heatsink setup at low speed. At high speed the sound is lower pitched and not anoying at all.

Comments: I have a Barton XP-2600M in a NF7-S 2.0 overclocked from 1.96 Gz to 2.52 GHz at 1.85 Volts, it ran 65c and more on my big Alpha sink and 80mm 35 CFM fan, with this SI-97 and a SilverStone 120mm (with home-made Adaptor) it doesn't even break 39C @ 2900 rpm, and 41C and a quiet 2100 RPM.. Great combo... Great Service Newegg.

Comments: I am running this on a Barton 2800+ no Overclocking. I got this to try a fan less solution, and it works great, I ran 3Dmark03 CPU test, and game test over again 3times, then my temp was 61c under load, without a fan. I had to turn my case fan in the back of the case, from blowing out, to sucking in, and that helped, I am looking for some new 120mm fans, with more airflow and less noise right now, then I expect temps will <font>d</font>rop and Ill have a FAnless CPU coooler, this thing has brought my noise level down to almost nothing, but now my GPU is so loud that I am looking for a fanless cooler for it right now.

Comments: this heatsink rocks, the last ill ever buy 2500+ overclocked 210x11-1.82v hehe, idles at 34c, full load never goes over 39c thats running prime 95 10 hours, ty newegg

Comments: 15 degree <font>d</font>rop over a Thermaltake Silent Boost in an Antec Overture (fits fine)with Artic Silver. Used the same fan from the Thermaltake, so the only change was the heatsink itself. No fan change, so the sound level remained the same.