Looking to overclock my quad and need cooling help

[alanwest09872]

ok lol just as my tidal i have a q6600 (go stepping) Im looking to overlclock it to about 3.2 ghz. I need the best cooling i can get for about 250. I have looked into watercooling but im not sure which r consider good bad or indifferent. Im not even sure if water cooling is the way to go. if anyone could throw out some ideas for me i would appreciate it. In my sig it has all my hardware.

 

[aigomorla]

http://www.petrastechshop.com/pecoel.html

would fit your budget and do very well. Might even allow you to get 3.6ghz safely if your chip can do it.


Id pick up a swiftech MCReservoir as an addon to it. The T-line can get annoying when bleeding.

 

[alanwest09872]

/salute thanks for the help

just one question what is a swiftech mcreservoir? and whats a t line lol

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: alanwest09872
/salute thanks for the help

just one question what is a swiftech mcreservoir? and whats a t line lol

please click on the link in my sig.

Its my sticky on watercooling. It should give you the basic 411 on watercooling.

After you read it, let me know if you have any more questions, or you want to know whats better.

 

[alyen]

I did a poor decision on my HSF for my rig, but this is what I would do

Get a Thermaltake Ultra-120 with a Scythe Flex-F fan. A case that has a side girll or air intake also help lower the temps. The only problem with air cooling I find is that the my computer room gets quite warm after a few hours with the windows closed. Water cooling is more idea if you are really stressing your computer to extreme for more than 4 hours.

I have a Q6600 and am only doing mild overclocks when I need to leave my computer on overnight rendering, but sometimes crank it 3.2GHz when playing games. Atleast the fall season is approaching.

 

[Nickel020]

The Petra's kits are excellent, if you're willing to build your own watercooling setup and don't want to pick each component individually, they're the way to go.

As for air cooling, the Thermalright Ultra Extreme is great, but you also could get teh Scythe Infinity, which is only marginally worse and quite a bit cheaper.

Anyway you go, I woulkd also use a straight-edge to check if heat spreader and heatsink are flat. If not, you will need to lap.
At svc.com you can get lapped Thermalright 120 Ultra Extremes, but they ask a little in exchange for that service.