help needed for a cpu fan

[longhorn88]

hello

recently i bought and installed one of those fanless 6600gt and thought it would silence my pc for good. however it only got louder becuase it created so much heat like 65degrees idle and my cpu had to scream to cool the cpu... i dont know what to do... ;( the only logical thing i can think of is to buy a new cpu fan. im eyeing on one of those zalman copper fans (CNPS7000). it says it will fit onto 478pin cpus but i heard copper fans are heavy. i also heard that cpus have limited amount of weight that it can handle and i dont know what my cpu's limit is.

my cpu is intel p4 3.06 478 northwood core
ill give you my whole spec just in case

400watt psu
1gig 2700
gigabyte 6600gt agp
80gig 7200rpm

i don't have a case fan but i have a place for a 8cm one
what should i do to silence my overheating computer
please help

thanks in advance

ps im low on budget

 

[3ssence]

Firstly, get a fan in that 80mm fan slot, do you just have the one slot ? If so place an 80mm fan blowing air into the case. If you have 2, then have one blowing air in, and one blowing air out. Secondly, the processor you have will have a heatspreader which will decrease the possibility of damage to the cpu core, plus, unless you mount the heatsink with uneven pressure, then it should be fine anyway. I've had some fairly hefty heatsinks and they've never done any damage. If you're that concerned though then you could always go for one of the aluminium versions of the zalman coolers.

Edit: i had (now with my brother) a pc running a 478 northwood and an akasa evo cooler, and the temp rarely goes above high 40's, with an overclock of 500mhz and some extra volts, plus the cpu is still perfectly intact. Well worth looking at as well, decent hsf the akasa.

 

[giant384]

are you serious you have no case fans????? my god!!! you need at least one.
one case fan dosent make that much noise