New Build Cooling Question

[LawrenceTalbot]

I just purchased from Newegg the following components:

Case - Lian Li pc-60BPLUS II - This case has 4 fans, 80mm on top and rear and 120mm on front and side.

Power Supply - Enermax MODU82 EMD625AWT

CPU - E8500

Mobo - Asus P5Q Pro

Video - EVGA GTX 260 Core 216

Memory - Corsair Dominator 1066 4gigs

HDs - 3 WD6400AAKS

My question is will I be needing a cpu cooler or can I get by with what intel provides? Also any recommendations if I do. Thanks

 

[EvilSponge]

Depends if you over clock or not

-sponge

 

[mpilchfamily]

No OC stay with stock cooler

Mild OC stay with stock cooler.

Heavy OC get a better cooler

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Originally posted by: EvilSponge
Depends if you over clock or not

-sponge

He's more or less right, for the scalability of the Wolfdale chips. I don't know how much wattage exactly that I'm pumping through my E8600. If I could trust the temperature readings I get, I might be more inclined to say that a careful OC'ing of an E8500 could be fine with the stock cooler. There have been "issues" with the Wolfdale temperature sensors, and these shortcomings dovetail with "issues" in BIOS revisions for interpreting those sensors. In the latter case, incorrect BIOS interpretation may add a problem of throttling the PC under the BIOS thermal control settings when it doesn't need to be throttled. Conversely, if we can't be sure of the temperature readings, we cannot safely assess whether those thermal controls should be disabled.

For my E8600, I proceed on the basis that (1) Realtemp reports correct temperatures, even if the sensors appear "stuck" at 56C under idle; (2) a CPU voltage under load of only 1.24V (and 0.02V under the retail-box maximum spec) cannot lead to excessive temperatures with a 20% over-clock setting; and (3), if BIOS version upwardly biases TCASE temperature readings, but the readings vary between idle and load for a particular CPU cooler as one would expect, then the thermal wattage is in line with those expectations and there is no reason to worry.

We'd OC'd an E2140 and an E2180 -- one of them to 60% above stock before backing it down -- with the stock cooler. And we backed down on the 2140 over-clock not for cooling issues, but rather for stability: it would reset the BIOS on reboot after installing software updates.

 

[Murloc]

if you bought that config you want to OC for sure, otherwise you wouldn't have bought a e8500 instead of overclocking 160 mhz a e8400, and 800mhz cl4.

A zerotherm zen fz120 nanoxia limited edition would do the job and allow you to go further than 4 ghz :yes: 4 ghz daily clock with low temps for sure

 

[RealRedRaider]

Go Water...FTW

 

[RallyMaster]

Originally posted by: RealRedRaider
Go Water...FTW

Since we all have $400 to spend on cooling, right?

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: RallyMaster

Originally posted by: RealRedRaider
Go Water...FTW

Since we all have $400 to spend on cooling, right?

actually it could be pulled off for less, and much less if he goes used, and would most likely rape all air solutions in any catigory, noise or performance, unless he's not overclocking, then a passive air solution would be ideal.

Thats if noise is an issue.

But OP listen to the second post, its correct.

Originally posted by: mpilchfamily
No OC stay with stock cooler

Mild OC stay with stock cooler.

Heavy OC get a better cooler

This is correct.

 

[RealRedRaider]

Originally posted by: RallyMaster

Originally posted by: RealRedRaider
Go Water...FTW

Since we all have $400 to spend on cooling, right?

Swiftech makes several starter kits that range from $119 - $199...

Or try taking the time to piece individual components together and blow away air cooling...