Quiet Cooler for E6750?

[Wigwam]

Plan to build a system around an E6750. I want a quiet machine so was looking at either the Zalman CNPS9700 or the Scythe Ninja [with a 120mm fan].
How would these perform and could I overclock with them?

They are to go into a machine with a passively cooled 8600GT as well.
That brings my other concern as I was planning to put them into an Antec Sonata 3 but wonder if the restricted airflow in this quiet case would make things too hot?

 

[MarcVenice]

Nah, with either coolers you'll have plenty of leeway to overclock, and things shouldn't run to hot, unless ambient temps are 30c and up ...

 

[Accord99]

The E6750 is a cool running CPU, plus the G0 stepping has improved on the already excellent power usage of the original C2Ds. A Ninja (even the new one with the less than ideal mounting system) should have little problem cooling a E6750 passively. In a previous system, I was able to run an E6600 at 3GHz with a Ninja Rev. A passively.

And as you can see here in this link, the E6750 is cooler running than the E6600.

http://www.matbe.com/articles/...m-et-celeron/page5.php

Coincidentally, I recently built a new system based on the E6750, Sonata 3 but with a Ultra-120 Extreme paired with a 1200rpm fan. I'm now running at 3.6GHz/1.475v and have considerably thermal headroom left. The Sonata 3 won't be a problem at all.

 

[Wigwam]

Many thanks.
Could you please tell me if you fitted the 2nd 120mm fan behind the hdd cage and if you did the presumably the gfx fits okay?

Of the 2 I was leaning towards the Zalman but maybe I will just get the Ninja and run it without the fan for starters...

 

[Accord99]

I don't use the fan, but from pictures that I've seen even with the 120mm fan attached, you can fit a video card up to a 8800 GTS. Without the fan, you can fit the 8800 GTX (I just installed it today into my Sonata 3).

 

[Wigwam]

excellent. In that case I probably will fit an extra 120mm panaflo I have lying around