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A big, VERY quiet 775 cooler for a Q6600

Keysplayr

Keysplayr

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Any suggestions? Stock Intel fan is a bit loud ( I can hear it, and that means the microphones can as well ).
 
any xigmatek with a silenx fan?

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you could also sound dampen your case if you cannot get it as silent as you want
 
Zalmans are quiet, but they don't cool well enough. At least the models I have dealt with. The recording software I use is multithreaded and can make use of all four cores. Load can get high on the cores so they will heat up. I'd be willing to go with an intended passive and huge heat sink and mount my own 120mm fan wired for 5 volts on it. I'm also weighing the option of going with a 45nm quad core. Maybe Q9300.
 
Keys I don't know where you'd rank the cooling capability of a tuniq tower, but the stock fan with the tuniq is really quiet if you manually turn down the fanspeed (it comes with its own rheo controller backplate thing) and keep it under 1200 rpm.

I record annotated videos for the client education side of my business, the mic sits right above my box and I get no input (that I've noticed) from my rig's fans. I turned them all down so they'd be quiet, but the cooling capacity seems pretty decent nonetheless.

The tuniq and cpu are lapped in my case though, FWIW.
 
Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
Zalmans are quiet, but they don't cool well enough. At least the models I have dealt with. The recording software I use is multithreaded and can make use of all four cores. Load can get high on the cores so they will heat up. I'd be willing to go with an intended passive and huge heat sink and mount my own 120mm fan wired for 5 volts on it. I'm also weighing the option of going with a 45nm quad core. Maybe Q9300.
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I once underclock and undervolted my Q8200 to 1.8ghz and just under 1V and it saw temps in the mid-high 30's across my cores. Wasn't super stable though.

Letting you know.
 
Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
Any suggestions? Stock Intel fan is a bit loud ( I can hear it, and that means the microphones can as well ).
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My year old monstrously oversized Tuniq Tower is dead silet when the fan is set to the lowest setting...and still cools fine.
 
Well, nobody wants to hear it as of late, but the TRUE is the quietest, and best cooler out there that I have seen.
 
Get one of the good tower coolers (Xigmatek, CCF, Vend2, TRUE) and run it passive. Should do fine for a Q6600 at stock, if a xigmatek passive with only two slow 120mm case fans ran my overvolted e7200 in the high 50s loaded. If you're uncomfortable running passive, just add a 500rpm scythe or other fan
 
Hello. Tuniq Tower owner here. Add my name to the list of people reccomending it. It is the best cooler out there, imho, in terms of its performance to cooling ratio.

I second the reccomendation that you ramp down the fan controller a bit - it will be virtually dead silent at that setting.

 
Originally posted by: Markfw900
Well, nobody wants to hear it as of late, but the TRUE is the quietest, and best cooler out there that I have seen.
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mark you got battered victim syndrome lately, have a :beer: bud, relax. We love the true. I'd have bought them myself instead of tuniq but the tuniq was half the price at the time and came with a fan which the true did not.
 
Originally posted by: Greg04
Originally posted by: Greg04
Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
Any suggestions? Stock Intel fan is a bit loud ( I can hear it, and that means the microphones can as well ).
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My year old monstrously oversized Tuniq Tower is dead silet when the fan is set to the lowest setting...and still cools fine.
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$50 at the egg.
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Well, it's big! Neat design having the fan inside the cooler. Getting a lot of Tuniq votes and that monster looks like it would do nicely with the fan turned down low.

Mark. I'll take a look at the TRUE.

Thanks to all for your input on this. I use condenser mics' and they are super sensitive.
 
The TRUE is so good, that a sythe fan@600 rpm cools a Q6600@3.5 down to 60c full load all cores, AND YOU CAN NOT EVEN TELL THE FAN IS RUNNING.
 
The TRUE would definitely give the very best cooling and noise performance.(Doesn't come with a fan, but you could be an extremely slow running super silent fan and it would work fine.) However the TRUE is significantly more expensive than the Tuniq Tower which will provide very good cooling performance and do it very quietly.
 
Should have posted over at C&C.

Going by your title, and if money is no object, the TR IFX-14 is the way to go, passive or with a 140mm fan on a fan controller.

TRUE is a good bet, match it with a Nexus fan at 12v or a Scythe S-Flex on a fan controller (my personal choice).

If you want to go budget but still get good results, those xigamatecs and other heatpipe-direct sinks are really good for the price.

Good recent article, obviously with a different chipset but the numbers are still relevant:
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardwa...pu-cooler-group-test/1

And a good overall roundup, check the boxes of the different heatsinks you want to compare:
http://www.madshrimps.be/?acti...tpage=3932&articID=389


-z
 
Ah yes, we have a C&C forum. Sorry guys, my mind is drifting this week. Wife is ill and I've been home. Idle hands and all that.
I'll move this over to C&C.
 
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