How will this perform?

[unpluGGedddd]

I just bought an Alpha Pal 8045 + Panaflo 80mm 34 CFM Fan

I was going for a quiet setup, and this is one of the best I could think of... Anyone give me an idea of how this performs?

Thanks

 

[Rahminator]

It will perform very well and you will be to overclock a lot.

 

[chiggachu]

another guy with a new 8045 that's fishing for compliments, huh?

 

[unpluGGedddd]

OK, thanks for replies... Can't wait to get rid of this loud Dragon Orb (Supposebly 37 DB's! What a joke)

It's not even too good performance wise, but how much do you think I could overclock using the 8045? Got 1.4 on Dragon Orb, about 60-70 % Stable

 

[FlowerMan]

To OC a lot you will need a decent fan. 34CFM is not decent 50+ is decent.

 

[Egrimm]

I understand you, had a DragonOrb3 myself, but after my 1,4 T-Bird died (either a cracked core due to the DragonOrb (the core was already chipped but it worked so I don't know if that's the reason) or because a bad ECS K7S5A fried it) I got a Molex Radial Fin for my 1600+. But when I found a shop that had the PAL8045 in stock I bought it, haven't regretted it, it's one fine heatsink.
You will be able to oc, you don't need 50+cfm fans to get good results as FlowerMan said, I use a 46,5cfm Papst fan myself and I'm able to hit 1649mhz @ 41C.
Even though it has higher cfm than your fan you should be able to do a minor oc.

 

[FlowerMan]

46.5~50CFM

250mHz OC is pretty good, but it also depends a lot on the manufacture batch (AMD CPU) that you get. The XP's also run cooler than the older tbirds.

Is that 41*C idle or load? I hope that's not your idle temp