What is the best socket 754 heatsink and fan?

[Freakker]

What is the best heatsink and fan for an socket 754 Athlon 64?
Noise isn't that much of a problem, just not a tornado.

[khilladi]

lol i've checked out reviews on the tt big typhoon and it's veryyyy good and only rated at 16db. Zalman's line of 7000 n 7700 cpu coolers are great as well.

[Nataku]

most of the thermalright products are good.

[omga14]

thermalright xp-120 with a panaflow fan is the best one available. i have the zalman 7000 al/cu and i like it. can't hear it at all. as with the thermalright you will but not to bad.

[Freakker]

Any idea on about how loud 45 dBA is?

[omga14]

50dba is normal speech at 15ft. here's a pdf file that has a scale towards the bottom:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=dba+scale

here's another scale: http://www.polytechinc.com/noise.html

[ghaib]

Arctic Cooling! it is amazing and so quiet! I use AC for both cpu and gfx!

[Zefram]

How about the new Thermalright XP-90C? ITs a bit heavy (being all copper), but test shown positive results............ try googling for the review and make your decision wisely!

[yahooadam]

alot of people hate thermaltake

dunno why, their products are ususally louder then claimed though

Thermal right - dunno alot about them first hand
But alot of people say these products are superb

Zalman, i like zalman, their products work, and they are well made, and seem good to me

Its really up to you, depends what you want

Quitness - zalman
Performance - Thermal right
Cost - Thermaltake

This pretty much looks about right to me

somone step in if im off though :)

[omga14]

the XP-90C doesn't show much of a temp drop over the 120 and it costs considerably more, and yeah it's a heavy son of a goat.

[Freakker]

On Newegg the XP-90C is $62, the XP-120 is $68.
Thanks for all the recommendations, I'm going with the XP-120 and Panaflo fan.
yahooadam, I've had a couple thermaltake cooling products, and they didn't perform anywhere near as good as other companies' products.