e6600 stock HSF or Titan Vanessa

[araczynski]

I have a retail e6600 on the way (to be used with the asus p5w deluxe) and am looking to overclock as far as i can (not interested in water cooling).

i'll probably be getting som arctic silver 5 to replace the gunk on all the HS's on the mobo/cpu, but am wondering if anyone has had any experience with the Titan Vanessa HSF solution that Tom's Hardware seems to show as being a great product (great cooling/low noise).

or for that matter whether the stock HSF on the e6600 is worth anything for overclocking? i'm guessing not, as it wasn't designed for it, but i'd like to hear other's thoughts on this.

OR, if anyone has a better (better cooling/same price or better) suggestion for a HSF i'm all ears.

thanks.

 

[stevty2889]

The stock heatsink might cut it for stock speeds, but the Intel stock heastink is pretty crappy overall. Haven't heard much about the Titan Vanessa myself, I am going to use the Scythe Ninja with mine. If it can cool my flamethrowing 805 for an overclock to 3.6ghz, it should have no trouble with an overclocked Conroe. My motherboard is on backorder, but I'll find out soon enough.

 

[wwswimming]

they named a heat sink Vanessa ? oh man, one of my favorite co-workers was named Vanessa. should have seen the costume she wore on Halloween one year. Headlights on Full.

on second thought - not that butterfly design again ?! - oh well, good name.

most of the reports i've seen on the C2D say good things about OC-ability with stock HSF's. on the other hand, it'll be even more OC'able with better heat sinks.

wonder how they cut the butterfly shape. tool & die shaped like a butterfly, my guess. cut out of high-speed steel using CNC right off a CAD file.

what is f*cking next - a puppy-dog shape ? a snail ? a Pac-man shape ?

in economics classes, they call this "product differentiation".

 

[araczynski]

http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/06/07/10_mammoth_cpu_coolers/ is the article i'm referring to, but granted, its about a year old, no mention of the scythe in there because it probably wasn't around at the time, i'll check further reviews of the scythe.

i got interested in the vanessa because it seems to perform better (quiter/better cooling) then the tuniq tower which anandtech used to test the overclocking of the conroes. i figure if it performs better then the tuniq, it can't be bad at all

especially since i can't seem to find the tuniq available to buy online anywhere?