An excellent review of three different heatsinks is over at Toms Hardware and the final pages give a really interesting reference table noting the thermal performance of various heatsinks and their noise levels. Well worth a read - you will find it here (http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030917/index.html).
A couple of coolers it does not review though are the Aerocool Deep Impact DP-101 (pricey but a very very efficient heat-pipe cpu cooler) and the copy-cat one mentioned in this thread (http://forum.deadmen.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3049).
Good reference material none the less.
TL.
I've got this heatsink: http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?...?articleID=1126 (http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1126) but with a faster fan, the HHC-001 (No. 5 on this chart http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?...id=1126&page=5) (http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1126&page=5)) and I can highly reccomend it!
I'm thinking I might get me one of these wee beasties - when they eventually arrive over here from the US.
Swiftech MCX462-V (http://www.swiftnets.com/products/mcx462-V.asp)
My ThermalTake Volcano 9 is a bit too noisy when it gets going at full-whack. So if I stick a quiet 92mm fan on the above - peace should reign in my PC once more.
well my cpu cooler was £5 from maplin and its some sort of coolermaster thingy, no complaints , much quieter than me old one.