From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 27 06:13:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F7801065691 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:13:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emailrob@emailrob.com) Received: from mx01.dls.net (mx01.dls.net [216.145.245.197]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D78B18FC0A for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:13:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emailrob@emailrob.com) Received: from [216.145.235.191] (helo=emailrob.com) by mx01.dls.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KYEHM-0004fB-Db; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:13:17 -0500 Message-ID: <48B4E27F.2000901@emailrob.com> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:13:35 +0100 From: spellberg_robert User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Picone , fbsd_questions References: <48B35CEF.3090501@emailrob.com> <787FAEC94123984293205DC78AD7C2C80E16551137@garnet-1.du.deakin.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: [ free_bsd_questions ] selecting a cpu heatsink / fan combo [ a ] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:13:20 -0000 Mark Picone wrote: >>it's that i don't recognize so many of the manufacturers names. >>some look familiar, but they might just be >> similar to something i remember from long ago. >>q: would anyone care to wax rhapsodic >> about any manufacturer >> with whose heatsink / fan combo product[s] >> they have had good success ? > IMO: Pure copper zalman heatsink/fan combo (cant go wrong) thank you, mark. i saw your response first thing this morning. this was one of the names that looked familiar. several retailers have these. attempting research on the product line earlier today, i got more info from them than i did from the manufacturer's web_site [ my pet peeve: more "presentation", less "content" ]. rob