[M] Asus Silent Square CPU Cooler GiveAway
 

The Asus Silent Square impressed us here at Madshrimps with its excellent performance/noise balance, keeping our test CPU running cool. With the help of Asus we are able to give you the chance to install this high end heatsink in your system.

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What do you need to do to make a chance? Post a picture, in this thread, of your current CPU cooler installed in your system; describe your system setup, and why you think the Silent Square should be yours. Share us some details on your current CPU temps and overclocking adventurous (if you have any).

The Silent Square fits on AMD S939/S754 and Intel S775, we'll send out the S² free of charge to the participant who's most in need of a CPU Cooling upgrade.

this contest runs until 27th October 17:00 GMT+1

Why i need a decent heatsink lmfao
 

Thats a thermaltake silentboost under there... it NEEDS cold air from that duct to keep me under like 50 degrees 0_0 and now that its winter, and im in Canada, we need the furnace on and theres a damn duct in front of my computer 0_0 so when its on i spike up to around 45 0_0

so you can see its not so much a matter of want as it is need and i decided id try my luck :P i regret buying this 30 dollar paper weight <_< its a piece of crap as soon as the temperature of ym room goes up... <_<

i used to be able to overclock to 2.6 stable... hell, i could go to 2.7... but now i cant make 2.4 stable <_< ive reseated, reapplied the AS5... many things... this damn thing SUCKS <_<

temperatures with a fan blowing cool air towards the side panel fin blowing into the duct are fine... but the case gets dusty... and i freeze to death :P (im in the basement :P so its cool anywhere but under the vent... and i have no room to move my computer somewhere else as im using all the electrical outlets :lol: I know, story of my life :P )

[edit] god i can draw the trouble with this thing on forever lmfao...

Also earned myself 4.9 foodstamps out of 5 in the post your ghetto mods thread on [H]ard|OCP Forums :P ive got a pic of the duct too but its not much lmfao, 3 sides cardboard, one side anti static bag ( so it can flex when i take off my side panel :P plus i can look inside :P )

cardboard mods make my day, they're dirt cheap and quite effective. So far you've got the winning entry ;) 11 days left.

mmmm, I would have been tempted to join, but after 3 months, still fighting to get my E6600 with it's boxed cooler, so no picture to show ^^

GL to the participants I guess :D

CPU:AMD 3200+ E3 939

MB:Gigabyte GA-K8NS Ultra-939 nVIDIA nForce3

MEM:GeIL 512MB (2x256MB) DDR400 Value DualChannel Kit

V:NVIDIA 6800GS

FULL LOAD TEMP 52!! :(

CPU OC TO ONLY 2.5GHZ =[

THE CPU COOLER LIMET MY OC ABILITY

I NEED A NEW COOLER :D

ASUS LOOKS VERY GOOD ;)

Id definetly check your airflow and your thermal paste application :P Thats a REALLY bad temp for that cooler... my friends X2 4200+ @ 2.6 and 1.45V is mid 40's load...

Sorry for bogging the thread :P

Im considering a "Phase 2" ... rerouting the heating duct :D

CPU: AMD X2 3800+ (939) 2.4Ghz@1.45v
Cooler: Cooler Master 6+
Ambient room temp 28C-33C
Idle: 38C
Load: 55C




Idle vid (10cm from case) http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...21867879010263
Load vid (10 cm from case zoomed) http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...06724206469154
Load vid (2m from case) http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...32674646235284

That's with all the case fans turned down to minimum, else I can hear it from outside of my room.

...I am unable sleep in complete silence anymore...

cool

System specs

AMD Athlon64 3200+
MSI K8N Neo
2GB Ram
Palit 7600GT Sonic
** Only using stock cooling :(

i really need this one bad.... temps rise

I feel bad discounting people but still.. if it can fix there problems i might as well :P

as with the other person i tried helping, check your TIM or thermal paste application. the 3200+ AM2 is a 62w part so that heatsink should be VERY capable... unless oyur overclocking which im assumignyou havent as you didnt mention it :P

Hope it helps :)

Also, dude with hyper 6+, if your fans are making that much noise, try dusting them. dust might be caught in the bearings :P and check your TIM/paste as well 0_0 55 is REALLY high with that cooler 0_0 airflow shouldnt be bad as your in a lian li :S oh wait your room temperature is 28 0_0 holy hell turn on the AC :P

@0mega

I dust out my case every 2 months or so. I only have 2 80mm intakes which are filtered, and 3 80mm exhausts. Neway, it doesn't help too much, and when I lower the voltage on the fan it gets this really irritating whistling sound, and the higher it gets (the voltage) the more it transforms into a jet engine sound :(

I use Arctic Silver 5 which was applied about a half a year ago, and I have the cooler titghtened down pretty good with custom screews (the ones that came with the cooler wouldn't fit).

The air flow is great, I have all the cables tied down and out of the way. I was planning on upgrading to some plastic tubing soon (mainly for looks, but should help a bit more in airflow).

Temps are not too bad. when I run it at stock voltage and speed the cpu stays between 38-48C at idle/load or so when my room temp is around 28C. However, I don't know how true that is anymore because I use speedfan to measure the temps but this new application called core temp (which is said to be more accurate) reports different readings on a 3-7C scale :(


I do have the AC on and running, but my room is located upstairs and by the time the air reaches up here it has gone all through the house (I am the last room it goes to). Even by shutting off some of the smaller rooms like bathroom and other rooms in the house and opening mine up it's stall hard to cool my room. I live on the east cost of Texas on an island and it's pretty damn tropical down here. During the summer my room can be anywhere up to 34C.

P.S. Oh yeah, my system specs =P
X2 3800+ @ 2.4Ghz
Abit Fatal1ty AN8 SLI
2gb Corsair Twin DDR-400 @ DDR-333
XFX 7800GT @ 480/1200
Creative Audigy ZS
2x160gb Seagate HDs
2xNEC DVD+-R/RW drives

The custom screw thign might be whats killing you :P ive noticed, that applying extra pressure to my HSF only makes thigns worse, then when i let off, the AS5 shifts and gets horrible :P

in the summer when my computer was upstairs i knew your pain :P my room was about the same :P and before the duct i IDLED at like 50 0_0 then i had to put a fricking DESKFAN blowing air into my 3 empty drive bays :lol: i also had a very ghetto duct to route that air right over the CPU and ram but dont have any pics :( Cardboard owns. lmfao

:) but i got no a/c and i live in a tropical climate.... room temp rises up to 40ºC.... so basically my system temp rise... alot.... even vcrise to 79-80ºC.... huhuhu

thats wierd :S the average temperature of the phillipines this month is about 31 :S might wann turn off some of those electronics or open a window or something :P

furnace just turned on, with the duct, my idle jumps up to 41... and thats with the damn vent closed as much as possible 0_0

Overclocking on STOCK cooling should be winning!
 

You're funny Omega, but it looks like you really want to win this. Who doesn't :)

Anyhow, I think people that really deserve to win first of all, should be an overclocker... (we all are :)) Second of all, should be running on stock oem cooling... (poor soul... like me:() And lastly but not least, have poor cooling resulting in high temperature in the system... (hot as hell like my idle 41°C :grum:)


Now on to the specs...

ASUS A8N32-SLi Deluxe Gamer Edition (please gimme the cooler that matches this :))
AMD Athlon64 3700+ oc'd @ 2.75GHz (250*11)
Platinum 1GB DDR Dual Channel Ram @ DDR458 2.5-3-3-5 (although the name, these are value rams)
MSi NX6600GT oc'd @ 550MHz/1090MHz (gfx card already poor, processor is slowing it down even more)
2x250GB Maxtor SATA2 HDD @ RAID0 (only goodies in this system)
2 Fans (trying to cool but makes too much noise)

Room temp 24-26°C
CPU @ idle 41°C (in BIOS it shows 44°C) :huh:
CPU under load can reach up to 52°C :eek:


This is my CPU... currently sleeping @ 41°C



There's a side fan to cool my case... but doesn't seem to do much :huh:



There's also a top fan in the case... I tried to put this fan on the rear also, but it didn't help. :(

BTW... if any of you guys with aftermarket cooling (like Omega's Silentboost or Nessmaster's Cooler Master) wins this contest... please gimme your old cooler. I'll pay the shipping :)

Re: Overclocking on STOCK cooling should be winning!
 

im not trying to be funny, im trying to help people :P i can help myself anymore, ive got the best TIM application yet, but i cant overclock at all :P my temps without the duct are worse than yours using the STOCK COOLER 0_0

without the duct my system gets unstable sometimes :( which is REALLY depressing considering i paid 30 bucks for this >_<

Omega:

maybe you should switch back to stock fan... maybe something else is wrong... maybe you're one of those that shouldn't tetter with their hardwares ;)

okay... well said but if u want u can go at my place and check my ceiling height.... and my ceiling materials....

my roof is made out of galvanized steel... and my ceiling is just 7ft.... i got a window but its to narrow... and i got no other place to put my pc but my room... i even have an industrial type electical fan and a ventilation fan... but still it doesnt help much.

i modded the fan from the stock HSF into my front door for my case, then the blades broke off of it randomly :lol: id LOVE to go back to stock... but NOOOO :lol:

if theres ONE thing i can say about ym cooler, its silent. thats about it though :P

I imagine all the participants destroying their cooling rig to get a new cooler when I read all these replies ^^

i dont need to cheat :P if i take off the duct, my temperature skyrockets, and if the furnace turns on, it does as well... and its getting cold so it probably will again soon :lol:

@Omega

You remember how you said I might need to loosen up the custom screews cause the temps are too high with the Cooler Master 6+? Well now that it's finally starting to cool down around here I had a room temperature of 25C and the CPU stayed at 33C idle and about 46C around load. So I guess it does perform good :) Still sounds like a mini jet engine going off in my room though :(

46°C is chilling, reduce the fan speed until your CPU reaches 60-65°C, that's good temp, low enough not to be a problem and you can enjoy the silence.

FYI a HOT running CPU is one which goes over 65+ with loud cooling :)
anything below 50°C is cool in my book

if you want lower temps for overclocking, go WC cooling!

thats cool :) and idle in the 30's is great :D mine is like mid 30's low 40's now,a nd load is getting up there as the days go on >_< and my CPU has a low tcase max (like low 50's... apparently thats how high the CPU can go before being somewhat unstable at stock *shrugs* )

i wasnt expecting a 16C drop when i put the duct on or whatever it was it 0_0 was at mid 40's idle, then low 30's :P

Well, I am new to this FORUM.

My rig
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Pentium D 940 3.0 Mhz
ASUS P5WD2 Motherboard
WD Raptor ADHD 1500
ATI X1900 Cross Fire Edition Card
1GB Kingston Value RAM a 667 Mhz
Shuttle CR40 DVD Rewriter
Shuttle 22 in 1 Card Reader
Gigabyte Aurora Case
Eneramax Liberty 500 Watts Modular Power Supply
Logitech MX1000 Mouse
Microsoft Wireless Keyboard
Altec Lansing 4.1 Speakers

I have overclocked my CPU to 3.8 Ghz. It idles at 49 ~ 50. Under a little load it gives me temps of 55~60. But the real deal is when I start gaming. The fan really gets onto my nerves. Not to mention the even Noisier fan on the ATI card. Both the INTEL and ATI stock coolers suck.

Reason to WIN the ASUS Silent Square CPU Cooler are many:
===========================================
1. It will go well with my ASUS Motherboard (Being the same brand and logos all over the place)
2. Its silent just as its name suggests. And better temperatures at idle and load Im sure when compared to my stock cooling.
3. Its purrrrrty.
4. The Blue LED goes well with my Gigabyte Case FAN LED

and last but not the least

Im Desperate (Its very difficult to find one of these here in Dubai)

Finally.. what can I say... I love ASUS

Another pic of my cooler with a view also of the ATI Crossfire card and the Gigabye 12" Fans.

ASUS kicks the AS'US of all the other CPU coolers. (Sorry I couldn't resist adding this one).

Thank you Madshimps for such a lovely giveaway. All the Best to all the participants.

I got my acer veriton 5600g desktop machine of a rebate almost a year ago in a retail shop.

It's prescott 530 on 3Ghz, Intel 915 based motherboard chipset, 1Gb DDR3200 Micron, 120gb Sata seagate disk, pioneer dvd-rw, hi-pro 350w PSU and finally pixelview 6600gt graphic card

At that time I thought it was a good bargain since I used my old comp (P3-800) for a long time (4 years).
I was so happy to finally purchase my machine, but then there were some problems.
Firstly I found out that I got one of the hottest processors in Intel series, famous pres(h)cott series.
A couple of web page visits, and unforetunately my doubts were confirmed.
Idle temperature of 55c and load up to 80c and higher.
Not to mention that performance was mediocre, and my computer was lagging behind every living AMD which my friends own...

it was ugly to see, and the amount of heat it generated.. blah!
Well atleast now I know why did I receive such a rebate on this computer :-)
One of the best thing is that I thought I'll finally play games without a hassle and I'll be happy.
Now I got a ban from my girlfriend to play games, since the amount of noise that generic-OEM CPU cooler unleashed into the environment is unbearable!

So I'm really happy to use my computer for playing dvd movies! Yipi!! :-(
I surely enjoy to watch dvd movies, while I think why did I spend so much money on a computer which primary function is a dvd player :-((((



I tried to overclock a bit my computer, raising FSB freq & proc... but later I decided not to play with a possibility of burning the rest of my machine, and my apartment!
So I hope you'll understand why do I need this cooler - DESPARATE!
Heh now it's winter and perhaps my comp could be useful as a heater..
but the problem will begin when the temperature will return to normal - summer temperatures

So that's I would like very much to win this cooler!
It would give me opportunity to play games, and that the rest of my family have peace and quiet in other rooms of my apartment! And ofcourse I would be more than happy not to use my comp as dvd player only :-)

what cooler do you have on the 6600GT card? that can be a source of noise also

Nope the 6600GT card isn't a problem (atleast not anymore). Prolink-pixelview generic cooler is also bad. When I play games RPM goes up to 6000, and the noise was also awful.
But luckily a friend of mine who has leadtek 6600gt, bought Zalman vf-700 and gave me his cooler. Luckily, it fits perfectly on my prolink 6600gt. I was really reborn, the cooler is so quiet when the card is in idle or in full load.
So the graphic card and (and I checked my PSU) have really quiet coolers.
It's the CPU cooler that kills my ears :-(
Oh... how many times have I cursed Intel for producing Pres(h)cott processors.... :-)

The countdown begins! I am just keeping my fingers crossed

thread will be closed at 17:00, then the jury will confer :)

The decision was unanimous, we like to help those people in need, and from the posts we've read here, brajko2 seems most desperate with a Prescott CPU on an aluminum stock cooling.

Thank you all for participating!

Hi to all forums visitors and to Madshrimps staff!
Thanks a lot for this great prize.
I assure you that this prize is goint to right hands!
Finally I'll be able to play games, without having a sound od jet taking off in my apartment!
Yupi... there are going to be some crazy nights when I play games... but this time no-one is going to be bothered with sound of my cpu cooler!
Thanks a lot to Madshrimps, and you have certainly received a fan of your website

Bye

Goran

Congratulations to Brajko and Cheers to the folks at Madshrimps.!!!

Do post a pic of the cooler installed in its new home Goran :)

gz

Im not trying to be an ***, but is there no "skill testing question" sort of verification? like post a picture of your cooler WITH you in it?

on places to get into say, an overclock database on XS.org, you usually have to post a picture of your setup with proof its you... cause ANYONE could have ripped the photos off... (i probably had no hope of winning after other people came in, but im a stickler for rules and fairness :lol: )

Jmke: No problem, I'll surely do it after I receive it. Don't worry.

Omega: Believe me those pictures were posted by me.
I don't know how it is on other sites, but I think it's kinda a silly to post faces or something specific to a picture.
And especially I'm not proud of my computer, cause I have seen what comps other people have.
Believe me I don't want to see faces of computer geeks on forum posts :-)
It could really turn up ugly.

So when I receive asus cooler, I'll surely post pictures and do something that will verify my authentification