Opteron Coolers and Backing Plates

FlintstoneFlintstone SE Florida
edited May 2004 in Hardware
I've looked at all of the usual suspects that I know of for cpu coolers w/backplates for my soon to be arriving dual Opteron system and haven't been really satisfied with what I'm finding. Anyone have some real world experience with non-AMD supplied coolers for the Opterons for a regular box, i.e. not in a 1u or 2u or 4u server box.

For example, I see that Thermalright's offering doesn't cover the whole heatspreader on an Athlon 64 but I don't know how that applies to an Opteron. Do I seem confused? As usual, huh?

Thanks in advance,

Flint :banghead:

Comments

  • FlintstoneFlintstone SE Florida
    edited April 2004
    Anyone?
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited April 2004
    My Thermalright SLK800-U and SLK947-U heatsinks also don't quite cover up the heatspreaders on my P4 rigs but they work very well anyways. I imagine that the SLK948-U should be a stellar performer on an Opteron. If you don't want to use those, then Alpha also makes an Opteron/A64 heatsink and Alpha makes quality heatsinks too.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited May 2004
    You get pretty limited with a 1u or 2u case and you have a pair of the fastest opterons made don't you? What were they again? Thed 248's?

    My slow opterons have stock cooolers and the 3200+ athlon 64 has the huge round all copper zalman with 92mm fan but its huge and I doubt it would fit on your dual cpu rig even in a 4u case like mine is in.

    What did you end up using anyway? I know we have talked and you had selected a cooler. You up and running yet Bud?

    Tex
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited May 2004
    i'd like at drasnor's thread, "cooling the Master FAR-2" or something like that. he definitely has some experience, i think hes found his swiftech sinks more than satisfactory
  • FlintstoneFlintstone SE Florida
    edited May 2004
    Holy revival, Batman!

    Anyway, I've got stock copper coolers on them now and the temps in the bios are right at 60 C for each. But, I'm about to flash to a new bios that says it fixes a temp reporting problem in the bios. I'll see what happens then.

    As to up and running yet, well, no. It'll have to wait until my head's screwed on straight and I can think through the potential problems. I'll post a picture of it all in the new LianLi PC 76:
  • FlintstoneFlintstone SE Florida
    edited May 2004
    Keep in mind that it is an EATX motherboard and then notice how big the box actually is. It can hold 12 hdd's in removable carriers in front of which are 4 80mm fans sucking in through the front blowing on the drives. in the back are 1-12cm fan and 2-8cm fans with another 12cm fan blowing out of the top of the case. It being a file server case it doesn't have any front panel usb or firewire, but i'll put some in when I get a chance.
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