Afternoon, Just a quickie. I'm looking to push my E6300 a little further but the stock cooler is keeping things a bit too warm for my liking at 2.7Ghz Just wondering which air based CPU cooler would be the weapon of choice really. My options are: Arctic Cooling Freezer Extreme (about £32) Arctic Freezer 7 Pro (about £20) or Thermalright Ultra-120A and then add a good fan (about £27 + fan) Any thoughts or am I perhaps aiming a little high hoing that the E6300 is going to take much more?
Have you thought about the Akasa Nero? It's only around £25, and got Bit Tech's excellence award on the i7 cooler test, though it's got a 775 fitting kit in the box.
OCZ / Xigmatek coolers (the OCZ ones are OCZ-branded Xigmatek coolers) give you a lot of bang for your buck, as well as looking swish. Akasa give even more value-for-money, but look boring. I recommend OCZ / Xigmatek But if your budget can be stretched a little, go for Noctua, nearly the best performance and dead quiet.
From the What Hardware Guide - Apr 09. "while the Akasa Nero we recently reviewed is cheaper and performs admirably, unlike its well fitted LGA1366 mount, the LGA775 mounting is simply terrible. In comparison the Kama Angle works well with both LGA1366 and LGA775, and delivers excellent performance." But given that they feel the Kama Angle works well with its push-pin LGA775 mount, maybe the comments about the Nero should be taken with a pinch of salt.
I have Nexus coolers (xir 2300) in 2 of the rigs in my house, one e6600 and one q6600 and I have found them to be excellent. They are whisper quiet and the cooling is great, even if they are a little pricier than others
I got the TRUE 120, and I absolutely love it. Best air cooler imho, but a bit pricey. It looks good too
I agree with Zeel, the TRUE is amazing. The rather obscure Sunbeamtech Core Contact Freezer is almost as good and within the price range you describe. http://www.sunbeamtech.com/index-2.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CPU: Q6600 G0 (Lapped) @ 3.5GHz (438x8 ) COOLER: TRUE Black (Lapped) + Sunon Denki 'Big Boy' MOBO: Asus P5Q Deluxe RAM: 4x1GB OCZ Platinum PC2-6400 1052MHz 5-5-5-15 GFX: 4870X2 -- Samsung 2493HM 24" HDD: Velociraptor 150GB -- 3 x Spinpoint HD501LJ 500GB 16MB SOUND: Logitech Z-5500 -- X-Fi Fatal1ty OTHER: Antec P180 -- Enermax Infiniti 650W -- Vista 64-bit 3DMark06 = 19000 -- Vantage = E26000 P14000 H10100 X7400 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I use the coolermaster hypertx2 on an oced amd 5200x2 running at 3.16ghz on an abit an9 32x mobo pc2 6400 ocz platinum xfx 9600gso 768mb model 2 hard drive 1 Maxtor STM3320620AS 320gig the other Hitachi HDS721616PLA380 160gig
Never been a fan of (heavy) tower coolers. Sure, they cool the best, but I can't shake the notion that at one point they get loose, drop and take even more valuable components with them. Also, tower coolers are said to be notoriously bad at cooling the PWM area. Either way, I'm not really into overclocking myself. I prefer quiet cooling...
ACF7 Pro for me as it does the job and is cheap. The TRUE is complete overkill for a dual core and the thermaltake you suggested isnt as good as the ACF7pro also the freezer extreme is horrible.
CPC reviewed the Titan Fenrir TTC-NK85TZ andfound it to be equal to the TRUE and about a tenner cheaper. Edit: Oh wait, bagman beat me too it
My Xigmatek HDT-S1283 is keeping my Q6600 nice and cool, and it was only £19.99. Its about 5 degrees better than the Freezer 7 when OC'd to 3GHz. And its pretty much silent.
Nice to see you on the le forum nouveaux Cerberus hmmm, cheesecake. Nice ComputerKing, not particularly thermally conductive methinks . . . unless it had three sizes of pure silver particles in it.
I have a e6300 and a Thermalright HR-01 Plus on it and I can run it with out a fan oc'ed to 3Ghz and its still running just as cool with the stock HSF at load. I would recommend the HR-01 Plus and a slow fan, that thing will be ice.
