budget heatsink for Soyo K7VME

konakona

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Hi, I moved to this place to attend school just a while ago, which made me put up a new computer. the components I have purchased thusfar are :

antec aria
soyo k7vme
amd mobile barton 2400

I do not play 3d games any longer, meaning it is very unlikely I would get a new vid card or struggle to overclock the cpu real high. all i need is a ULTRA QUITE machine that works well for anime and music; however, lil overclocking wouldnt hurt either - knowning how well these chips overclock

now, is there a good 'budget-minded' heatsink that would be able to fit in these micro-atx parts? again, extereme cooling performance is not what i am after, so please suggest me something you could call best-bang-for-buck.

btw, does anyone know how to connect all that wiring from the 8-in-1 card reader? aria sure is one sweet looking case, but the included manual is flimsy at best.
 

mechBgon

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If you could round up a used Thermalright SK-7 and a Panaflo L1A 80mm fan, that would be nice... But heh, ask an SK-7 owner if he's selling and you might as well ask Gollum to lend you the Precious :evil:
 

konakona

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UPDATE

was gonna go for sp-97, but come to think of it i wasnt going for extreme overclocking; ended up ordering THERMALRIGHT ALX-800 from svc. it took them like a whole week to ship it, but i was so glad it got here anyway. the review on a case @ silentpcreview.com indicates zalman 6500s too can fit quite snugly.

installing the h/s wasnt as hard as it seemed... luckily none of the capacitors got in the way of the heatsink. zalman 7000s will NOT fit on this board tho, according to zalman's mobo compatibility chart.
at first i paired up the h/s with an accompanied panaflo 92mm; as suck-out configuration was impossible i opted for blow-on, which later i suspected accountable for loud noise coming from the case (by causing air turbulance maybe?); i mean antec is reknowned for quite sonatas, everybody seems to love them. and antec boldly claims "Aria is the quietest PC case in the entire world." well, as much as i love this case, that is flat-out false - zalman's TNN comes to mind... anyway, i opened up the case and swapped the 92mm fan with a 80mm (panaflo as well). whoa, what difference it made! i thought common belief is larger fans = more cfm @ same noise level or less noise @ same cfm... initially i had it hooked up to 12v/ground expecting to switch to 5v/ground in case the noise level was too high, but it turned out more than acceptable for a quite computing environment.

then i got a bit more ambitious and attempted swapping the 120mm fan in the power supply. the stock fan (whose brand name eludes me) is a ok, but a panaflo replacement cant hurt i thought... you know they say those caps in PSU hold charges for quite a while and can be lethal when abused blah blah blah. what the hell, i was too anxious too wait and too lazy to get proper gear on. luckily i got away without injury of any sort. however it wasnt a walk in a park either; i shot myself in the foot by ordering 120x120x38mm fans... the PSU has just enough room for 25mm thick versions. if you will, please do yourself a favor and get 25mm ones in case you are planning on doing this mod. the fan has a 2pin connector - the one that is commonly seen on PSU fans - plus a blue/black wires which go thru a hole on the PSU and into the case alnog with the bundle of molex connectors. the wires end with 3pin connector which get plugged into mobo. no idea why they have it set up like this, could be for RPM monitoring.

one major gripe about this case is the drive cage : when cdrom drive power/ide cables are plugged in, i was unable to take the cage out to reach the inside of the case (strange aint it, putting it in with the cables wasnt that big of a deal.. am i doing soemthing wrong here?) of course there is a simple work-around : unplug the cables before dismounting the cage, altho it may get frustrating if you have to work on the mobo often.

with a closer inspecition, the manual wasnt all THAT bad. it had pretty much all the information i needed to get everything hooked up - just goes out to show how people start b!tchin without putting too much effort to find the way out.

i would say i dont care much for the way aria's faceplate looks. the buttons look real cheesy... it woulda been nice to have a little hole for optical drive bay. LED's in the front panel are mighty cool tho, my roomates here are drooling all over them

right now as we speak, i am almost done setting up the software part, took me good few hours... better make a ghost image or something before it goes bad

with the $10 off $100 coupon @ buy.com, aria could be had for about $90 shipped. its a bit on the expensive side but keep in mind it is equppied witha 8-in-reader and a slot mounted fan-blower. very nice case overall, just what i was hoping to see in the package!
 

gerryko

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Have you tried any overclocking yet?

I have a similar rig:
Kingston Value ram 2700
mobile 2400 plus
k7vme
I can't overclock it pass 141mhz and jumpered to 166 is a no boot.

any luck?

Gerryko
 

konakona

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i just overclocked it to 2.16ghz (160FSB). so far so good, no signs of instability. then again, i dont do any gaming so i would have to try some more stress tests to see if it really is stable. at 165FSB the POST screen was all garbled up, i am blaming the S3 Unichrome IGP for it.

EDIT : tried some Melty Blood, its giving me some mild case of 'snow effect'. maybe its time for a good VGA card...
 

sweeper2

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i just bought the case and the soyo k7vme mb and 350 watt psu /keyboard/speaker/mouse/ combo, 59.99 after rebates, but the hsf that it recommended sucks...fan is half blocked by the PSU, cpu temp on my 2100 is 52C idle and case temp is 39C idle..way to high for me, if i put in a slot fan, without an intake fan (as there is no place for one) would this help cool off the inside and allow the HSF to work better? Is any body else having the high temp problems?

HSF is:Ultra Fire /copper base / HS 62X80X40/ fan 60X60X25/ 4500 rpm/ 21.50 CFM

need to get case temp down and only options are a slot fan, but has no intake??? the PSU blows out but i guess also sucks in from the slots in the PSU. Poor design for case to run high end Athlon Xp's, glad i didn't opt to go with a 2500 or higher!! Quiet though and sleek looking.


this is my daughters pc, just got up running last night

Soyo K7ME
350 PSU
Athlon XP 2100
Radeon 9000 Pro 128
20 gig ata133 IBM
256mg DDR333 Kingston
Ultra Fire HSF
52X cd-R
 
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