Looking for High Performance Heatsink w/ Fan

[hennessy1]

I am looking for a high performance heatsink with fan for a socket 1366 six core cpu. Most preferably with pre applied thermal paste.

I usually purchase arctic cooling products and was looking at the freezer 13 pro. Any help is much appreciated thank you.

I also am looking for a case fan but i only knew of 2 or 3 types of bearings. Sleeve, rifle, and ball. When I looked on newegg and seems there are several types in addition to those. What i am interested in is a high quality long lasting fan that moves a good amount of air but that doesn't sound like a turbine.

To give an example of what I am used to here is a common fan i use.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835106116

Thank you for your help.

 

[muskie32]

Budget?

 

[hennessy1]

None. Just the points that I mentioned is what I am using as my preference base.

 

[Patrick Wolf]

I've got the Venomous X + TY-140 fan on the way. $69 total. Going to use MX-4 paste. Should be pretty awesome, but my reason for this setup is to have a large fan parallel to the GPU so it pulls warm air away from it. I'm not real concerned about CPU temps when gaming, especially when I get a 2500K or similar cool running CPU.

 

[Petey!]

The only high performance heatsink i can think of that comes with pre applied thermal paste thats worth it would be the H70. Otherwise I'd look at the standard DH14 or the Silver Arrow.

 

[zagood]

Thermalright Silver Arrow or Noctua DH-14.

Fans - Sleeve are quieter when you first get them but break down more quickly. Ball bearing will last longer and have a more consistent sound; double-ball bearing are usually a little quieter. Ignore rifle bearings. Fluid dynamic bearings are very good for price/performance/longevity/availability.

If you need a fan mounted horizontally (like a top blowhole), sleeve bearing fans will fail even more quickly, but with the price difference sometimes it doesn't matter (two sleeve bearing fans are sometimes cheaper than one quality ball bearing/FDB 140mm fan).

 

[hennessy1]

Thank you for all your suggestions. I went with the H70 and 2 aerocool fluid dynamic fans.

 

[hennessy1]

After trying to install the heatsink I ran into some spacing issues. With my thermaltake armor+ case and my evga e762 board the radiator hits the heatsink for the northbridge. I was wondering would I lose any performance from the cooler if I mounted one of the fans outside the case?

 

[BoomerD]

After trying to install the heatsink I ran into some spacing issues. With my thermaltake armor+ case and my evga e762 board the radiator hits the heatsink for the northbridge. I was wondering would I lose any performance from the cooler if I mounted one of the fans outside the case?

I doubt it...in fact, it's considered a fairly normal mod.