Coolermaster V10 or Thermaltake Frio OCK

[Googer]

I live in a warmer southern climate where I do not always have the ac running. CPU temps can get rather high which causes motherboard alarms to sound. I am thinking of buying a Coolermaster V10 or Thermaltake Frio OCK. I tend to run my system at stock speeds.

I'm mostly interested in AIR Cooling and am looking for opinions and alternative models to choose from or a pro and con debate on the V10 vs Frio OCK.

Im also considering this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835233011

Opnions Please!

 

[Masahiro]

Before I upgraded to WC, I bought and used a Frio OCK. I don't know much about the V10 but I can tell you 3 definitive things about the OCK:

1) It will SIGNIFICANTLY cool down your CPU, it brought my 960 from temps of around 80C to around 64C
2) It is LOUD. Really loud. If you're playing with headphones or with the volume turned up a bit, you won't notice it much but if the room is silent and it is on, it's really loud.
3) It is pretty freakin big. Be sure your case can fit it in before you go out and get one.
4) You can easily get quieter fans from Noctua or someone else to keep it quiet.

I don't know much about the V10 but I know that the V series in general are midrange ish cpu heatsinks. In terms of raw performance, I'd imagine the OCK is much better.

Hope this help

 

[T_Yamamoto]

the HAF series is really good.

try water cooling, itll help with the temperture

 

[Googer]

Before I upgraded to WC, I bought and used a Frio OCK. I don't know much about the V10 but I can tell you 3 definitive things about the OCK:

1) It will SIGNIFICANTLY cool down your CPU, it brought my 960 from temps of around 80C to around 64C
2) It is LOUD. Really loud. If you're playing with headphones or with the volume turned up a bit, you won't notice it much but if the room is silent and it is on, it's really loud.
3) It is pretty freakin big. Be sure your case can fit it in before you go out and get one.
4) You can easily get quieter fans from Noctua or someone else to keep it quiet.

I don't know much about the V10 but I know that the V series in general are midrange ish cpu heatsinks. In terms of raw performance, I'd imagine the OCK is much better.

Hope this help

I shyed away from the FRIO for the one reason that the fans were according to theremaltake's FAQ on the FRIO OCK, custom and cannot be replaced with standard off the shelf fans. Two, TT is coming out with a newer version that looks like it uses standard fan mounts and supports LGA2011.

The V10 is still very appealing but the possibility of buying a new case to accomodate the thing sort of scares me. I looked at the V8 and V6GT and was impressed.I was also very intrested in the Prolimatech Genesis (do check it out), Its probably one of the most efficient and easiet (to install) coolers on the market but the cost of completing the kit wasnt going to be cheap. But Ultimately, I settled on Noctua; key decision factors were there recent announcement of a FREE LGA2011 kit (vs tossing the FRIO in the TRASH), support for future products matters a lot to me and it says the company cares. And the performance of the Noctua was just as good as the other options i considered.

 

[Googer]

the HAF series is really good.

try water cooling, itll help with the temperture

The FRIO, V10, and Certain Noctua coolers perform just as well as Corsair's best H2O for less money, complexity, and more reliability. Those air coolers are only 1 or two degrees warmer than a custom system built around Swiftech components The idea of a possible leak and maintenance also turns me off.

As far as I am concerned, as long as this trend in air cooling continues, watercooling could go the way of the SCSI 320 drive or the early 21st century systems which had 6000rpm 200+ CFM delta fans which sounded like a Hoover. And liquid cooled systems may become a niche for only those interested in high wattage peltier cooling.



http://techgage.com/article/thermaltake_frio_ock_jing_cpu_coolers_review/2
The Noctua Coolers and V10 are just as capable as the FRIO OCK. With the V8 and V6GT doing almost as well.

 

[itstsui]

I'd go with the V10 because it uses Thermal electric cooling. It also has a fan and heatsink for your ram

 

[Googer]

I'd go with the V10 because it uses Thermal electric cooling. It also has a fan and heatsink for your ram

I was almost going to bite on that, untill i learned that the Noctua nh-d14 could produce the same benchmark results as the Corsair H100 for a fraction of the cost of the V10 or the H100. I now happily have the Noctua installed on my Socket FM1 and can safely say this thing runs just a few degrees above ambient while barely making a whirl.