Zalman 9700

[Khaotic]

But, will this 9700 fit on an Asus Stirker Extreme with all the stock motherboard heatpipes still installed?

[Scyth3]

http://www.heatsinkfactory.com/Enzot...r-p-16493.html

You guys should try that over the 9700. Its cheaper and probably just as quiet and cool.

[Atom]

But, will this 9700 fit on an Asus Stirker Extreme with all the stock motherboard heatpipes still installed?

yes it does

[Space_Man]

I have the 9700 installed on my Asus Crosshair. Have a AMD 5000 clocked to 3.03GHz. Temps run 100 at active idle and 129*f and prolong full tilt with the overclocked settings. When set-up was not overclocked any it ran 90*f idle and 113*f at prolong full tilt. That is with my motherboard sensors reading 80*F at intake fan with exhaust fan maxing out at 105*F when system was at full throttle. Those intake and exhaust temps where with the stock set-up. I have not installed a program to read those sensors since I overclocked the set-up. I hope to get those temps with the overclocked set-up in next day or two. I have ran orthos, prime 95, memtest+ 1.7 all each for 24 hour plus with no errors. I have been very happy with the Zalman's performance so far. I am also using the Artic Silver 5. I have not lapped the heatsink or cpu yet but thinking of trying it soon to see if it change temps any. I also only paid $50 for my 9700NT at newegg like a month ago. They had an instant rebate offer on it.

[Lenny_Nero]

I am surprised at what I have read in this thread, as my 9500 seems to be better than some water cooling I have seen, with the rig in my sig unless there is something more done to the AM2 version.
I get high 20's and low to mid 30's in a room that is 22~24c. I dont have my x2 over clocked much, its just short of 2.6 GHz as I am working with some new memory. I just ran Orthos for 1 hr 20 minutes and I managed to get it to 36c. I only have two 120 mm fans as extra cooling 1 in 1 out.

[Cupcake]

I have the 9500 and I love it

I can only imagine the 9700 would be 20% better