Need an New Heatsink/Fan for my q6600

[clarkey01]

I have a budget of £50 quid and I need something cool and quiet.

I will be buying from http://www.overclockers.co.uk/

I keep hearing about Tuniq ???

 

[mpilchfamily]

Cool and quiet are the only needs? Well is your sticking with stock speeds then just about any cooler will do.

 

[clarkey01]

hmm

 

[RallyMaster]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/...er%20(Socket%20LGA775) that

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Not to dis RallyMaster, and his suggestion is more than enough if you're not OC'ing and quite sufficient if you are. I checked your reseller's web-site. They don't have the Noctua NH-U12P (by which I swear at the moment), but I'd still rate the ThermalRight IFX-14 at top of the heap (if you want to use up that much case-volume).

After that, the TR-Ultra 120 Extreme, TR-Ultima 90, etc. Can't remember if your web-site carried OCZ or "direct-touch" products people mention in these forums, but they carry TR coolers.

If you aren't over-clocking, you might just continue using the stock cooler. In fact, for some processors the stock-cooler will still allow you to over-clock. Pull the stock cooler, read some guides here at Anandtech or elsewhere on "lapping," and lap the cooler heatsink base and the processor IHS cap to bare copper with 400-grit wet-or-dri sandpaper. Then use IC Diamond thermal paste -- if you can get it (I didn't check your reseller). These things could be worth a drop in load temperatures between 5 and 10C degrees. I don't know the current exchange rate and "dollars are easier for me," but this approach is going to cost you about $10 USD. If you lap the IHS, it will void your processor-warranty -- technically -- but it won't damage it. Just make sure you lap off the nickel-plating on both surfaces. Further, I'm not sure myself if the stock cooler's base is nickel-plated copper, but I do know that it has a copper-core . . .

EDIT: I see "Q6600 @ 3.0 Ghz" in your post. Is the Zalman cooler too noisy? Even with the older stepping B3 of the Q6600, 3 Ghz only required a vCore very close to the default setting and well under the retail box "maximum." Yeah -- you've already jettisoned the stock cooler. I'd say that just about any of the heatpipe coolers that are available would be fine for that over-clock setting.

 

[clarkey01]

What about the Tuniq???

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Tuniq Tower -- your reseller has it. Close second to the ThermalRight Ultra-120 Extreme.

Definitely a good choice, even if not "the best."

If you want to delve further, take a look at comparison reviews here at Anandtech -- probably starting around May 5, 2007. These comparisons begin more than a year ago, and cumulatively update through March 2008 and beyond. The March 08 review covers the Noctua.

EDIT: If you pick up on my "lapping" rant above, make sure you hold the heatpipe cooler (any of them) by the base and not the pipes and fins when sanding the base.

 

[clarkey01]

Originally posted by: BonzaiDuck
Tuniq Tower -- your reseller has it. Close second to the ThermalRight Ultra-120 Extreme.

Definitely a good choice, even if not "the best."

If you want to delve further, take a look at comparison reviews here at Anandtech -- probably starting around May 5, 2007. These comparisons begin more than a year ago, and cumulatively update through March 2008 and beyond. The March 08 review covers the Noctua.

EDIT: If you pick up on my "lapping" rant above, make sure you hold the heatpipe cooler (any of them) by the base and not the pipes and fins when sanding the base.

will do !

 

[BonzaiDuck]

[You'd be surprised at this: I live in Southern California, and there are times during these summers that I envy your UK climate -- excepting the size and quality of my tomatoes and lemons in the garden here . . . . ]

 

[clarkey01]

Originally posted by: BonzaiDuck
[You'd be surprised at this: I live in Southern California, and there are times during these summers that I envy your UK climate -- excepting the size and quality of my tomatoes and lemons in the garden here . . . . ]

I was in CA 10 years ago . I was 10, I stayed @ hunntington beach for 10 days - I didnt want to leave :-(

 

[clarkey01]

I need something cool and not noisey

 

[LOUISSSSS]

Originally posted by: clarkey01
I need something cool and not noisey

you're asking too much. having a cooler that will keep your CPU cool, yet stay quiet at the same time is hard. Both properties flow indirectly. So you need to set your priority straight on which matters more to you.

P.S. the gap between cool and quiet has shrunk the past year or so with the growing large CPU coolers

 

[RussianSensation]

Originally posted by: clarkey01
I need something cool and not noisey

Noctua NH-U12P

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