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Quietest, and most efficient CPU heatsink for a 1366 i7 920

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Originally posted by: aigomorla
lol... i dont mind slight detours as long as your the one causing them. 😛

But yes,. i meant on the first sink, you could always replace the fan to something quieter.
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Thanks for the clarification.:thumbsup:
 
Originally posted by: NYHoustonman
Originally posted by: HIO
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Only here for college, I hate the place, miss New York 😛. This is an ancient SN I had when I first used AIM, the Houston was for Allan Houston (Knicks SG at the time). Haven't quite been able to shake it 😱.
In any case, to make it look like this post is on topic, there are a few good options mentioned in this thread, you probably can't go (too) wrong with any of them.
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I can understand you miss NY but Santa Cruz *used* to be rad, cool, and a great place to chill as well. 😎 Me thinks you don't like college. 😉
 
Originally posted by: Yellowbeard
This nifty little unit is nearly silent and cools as well as any air cooler will that fits into your noise requirements.

Corsair H50: http://www.corsair.com/products/h50/default.aspx
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Thanks for pointing this out Yellowbeard.

I am buying Corsair's power supplies and most likely memory for these two new builds and have purchased a myriad of products from Corsair in the past. Oh, and while I am at it Corsair needs to be consistant and specific with their noise graph charts from power supply to power supply. Really frustrating for those concerned with noise pollution.

With that said and in my humble opinion at first glance and a little googling I give the H50 a :thumbsdown:. I think it is really close but missing the cigar on a few counts. Please correct me or point out my ignorance as you please. I am still on the fence so to speak with my purchasing and if I am wrong, I might bite.

1. Blowing air *into* my case through your radiator where I typically use the exaust port in my three rackmount cases to *expel* hot air isn't flying with me. There are a lot of other expensive componentry in a computer that can get hot especially mine. For instance, in my case I have expensive audio cards running a bunch of fiber optic lightpipe cables, SPDIF, etc. from my computer to high end outboard gear like Apogee and Benchmark converters doing A/D & D/A conversions.

2. The reviews I have seen are not complete, don't measure the noise of the fan and pump and simply seem unprofessional. Anyone can do a review today, even me 🙂At Corsair's site they say it is quiet but don't include how quiet it is which is what this thing is mostly being marketed for.

3. No online manual to look at. I know, not much to see there.

4. Two year warranty should be a minimum of three. Pumps fail especially if they are not really well made. I do however feel secure that the water containment is probably sufficient with regard to leaks.

5. Newegg has discontinued this item. Reviews there from actual purchasers were pretty darn good, but I am thinking the fan is cheap and noisy and will need to be replaced.

6. Hasn't been tested out in the market for the long term and revisions are happening already.

My quick glance and 2 cents.

With respect,

HIO

 
Actually, there a new SKU aka part number. Newegg cancelled the old one. The new one is the unit with the newest bracket for Intel 1156.

The unit works with air coming in or going out. However, the testing so far that shows the best results is with fresh air coming in. As long as you have good case airflow to exhaust that heat through some outlet other than 120mm hole for the H50, it works fine. I

I don't have a db rating but the fan and pump are VERY quiet. In the rigs I have so far, the GPUs are much louder.

It's not for everyone but I think it certainly fits the criteria you laid out in your first post.
 
his problem is its going in a U chassie.

I dont think his U chassie has a 120mm rear he can mount the rad in.

If he could fit a 120mm rad, then hell, u wont have problems with a tower sink.
 
Originally posted by: aigomorla
his problem is its going in a U chassie.

I dont think his U chassie has a 120mm rear he can mount the rad in.

If he could fit a 120mm rad, then hell, u wont have problems with a tower sink.
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Good call there Moderator. :thumbsup: I didn't even snap to the fact rackmounts at least all of the DAWs (digital audio workstation) cases I have ever seen don't have a 120mm rear only a 80mm rear next to the power supply or two 80mm rear next to the power supply. I just checked all of my cases and I cannot believe I didn't snap to that.

The Corsair H50 will not work in DAWS or U chassies because it surely doesn't have enough cable to reach to my front and far right 120mm intake which is like 15 inches away.

Again, good call Terry; you saved me research time.
 
If you honestly ask me.

And i think your gonna keep that rack for a while, and many futures to come.

I would build a cooling station.

Basically a box which has all your water eq located in.
Then i would feed the component racks off that system.

Depending on how you set that cooling system up, you can make it handle 2-3 systems, as long as u werent intensely clocked.
It seems you need silence, and you dont want to step up to a real PC case.

This is the only solution i can see.
And since its a external box, we can most definitely slap a large class rad on it, and run the fans at very quiet levels.

Throw QuickDisconnects on it, so you can transport the systems as well, or move it away temporary for maintenance.

Water has gotten a TON easier since i wrote that guide.
No joke.

There are fittings for almost everything.
If this is serious stuff for you, invest in the serious cooling.
The box will be one part of your system you can always take with you to upgrade.
Because water EQ like pumps, and rads, dont change much.
And 99% of the waterblocks that was out 5 yrs ago, will work for the i7 even.

How does that sound to you?
 
You apparently heve height issues. Go to Frostytech.com and check out the low profile coolers..then PM me if you want to save some money. Helping a forum member comes first before profit. Maybe I'm weird 😉
 
aigomorla wrote:

>And i think your gonna keep that rack for a while, and many futures to come.

Three racks and they are extremely well built and some are nine years old and I never plan on changing them unless the ATX standard changes.

>I would build a cooling station. Basically a box which has all your water eq located in. Then i would feed the component racks off that system

My computers are all complicatedly interconnected in different locations,*two* in main Studio(A) but pretty far apart and one in Studio(B) in an adjacent room. My other computers I don't care about excessive noise. I have about 500 yards of expensive Canare cabling, about a dozen or so fiber optic cables, SPDIF, etc. to make running water about impossible with all of the gear in the studio. Good idea though for most others, like you said a box which has all your water eq in it feeding all of the computer stations.

>It seems you need silence, and you dont want to step up to a real PC case.

LOL, my cases are *real*, solid steel and are rack mounted underneath mixing, recording, and streaming keyboard sampling stations. They have removable drive bays and are perfect for recording studios. I may not even need to overclock now but am future proofing my builds in case I want to record everything at 24bit 96Khz with lots of plug-ins (effects like convolution reverbs, compressors, eq's, delays) with a 64bit operating system.

My cases looks close to something like this.
http://www.harmony-central.com...es/Large/000018766.jpg

I have seen products that will work for me using air but I am just being real particular in getting the best for what I am trying to do. My builds are so thought out most people would think I am crazy but I do go a long time without upgrading and I do all of my computer builds in tandem. If you have a bad motherboard, drive, memory or what not; i just swap it out for another part and voila I found the problem. Actually, out of all of my builds over the years I have had only two hardware problems ever and that was a DOA motherboard, and a bad RAID controller on another one. Most stuff I pick up at Newegg and because I have done so much business with them they don't even question or charge for any returns.

> How does that sound to you?

Great, do you want to book session time in my studio. It sounds great!!!:laugh:






 
Originally posted by: bloodugly
You apparently heve height issues. Go to Frostytech.com and check out the low profile coolers..then PM me if you want to save some money. Helping a forum member comes first before profit. Maybe I'm weird 😉
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Your loyalty to fellow forum members is meritorious but i am at frosty and I see low noise and low profile Intel ranked heatsinks but not in socket 1366.

Wats up wid dat!!!

 
I think u need an idea what a waterbox is..

The top is my waterbox.
http://i125.photobucket.com/al.../Haruhi/IMG_1283-1.jpg

It looks like this inside:
http://i125.photobucket.com/al...la/Haruhi/IMG_1386.jpg

It has all my H2o stuff, and the tubes are fed below to the main chamber.
http://i125.photobucket.com/al...la/Haruhi/IMG_1385.jpg

i have 4 rads in that chamber alone. You could setup something simular, with not as many rads.

Your setup would be simular.
The box would sit next to your rack.
There would be tubes coming out of the box into your rack by this:
http://www.koolance.com/water-...nfo.php?product_id=593

You would add QD's to that so u can have each box be serviceable.
That way if u need to do maintance, you just pull the QD's off, pull the rack out, or move your waterbox to work on it.

QD's look like this:
http://i125.photobucket.com/al...aigomorla/IMG_0920.jpg

However you would get threaded ones like these:
http://i125.photobucket.com/al...la/Miyuki/IMG_1331.jpg

You probably need roughly 400-600 dollars on the setup.
Depending on your shell.

And i gaurentee you, it will outlast your rack.
 
You forgot my favorite pic.

http://i125.photobucket.com/al...aigomorla/IMG_0399.jpg

Now let?s see which one was meant for quiet and which one was meant for brutal performance? At first glance I would say Opty is a girl and NAS is a boy but I think it could go either way and all of the radiator fans are kind of throwing me off.

It is probably a trick question for us watercooler newbies, so my final million dollar answer is??? Can you tell I watched Slumdog Millionaire last night?

My final answer is??????

NAS is a quiet girl and Opty is an extremely powerful boy. Your babies right?

Grrrrr....in. What do I win?

Hey,...I am a poet and didn?t know it.

I told you i read your article. 😀

HIO
 
Originally posted by: aigomorla
no she was called.. IWasVeryExpensive.
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Okay she was called... IWasVeryExpensive

So she will be called, I would assume...IAmEvenMoreExpensive...when she gets a brain, her memory back, cards, drives, etc. ;-)
 
After an exhaustive, comprehensive research and study of the quietest, lower profile, and most efficient heatsink for a 1336 i7 920 that isn't a behemoth; I have reached a decision.

And the winner is................................................??????????????????????



NOCTUA NH-U9B 92mm SSO CPU Cooler

I contacted a gentleman in sales with Noctua in Austria about how ridiculous it was for Noctua and the consumer that you had to pay extra at Newegg for the mounting bracket to fit a socket 1366 although Noctua will send you one free after you prove them of your purchase and receipt. He agreed and informed me in two weeks they will be launching NH-U9B SE2 which will include mountings for a 1366, 1156, and the 775 as well as current AMD sockets.

Also, I informed him that Newegg which is the second largest retailer in the world discontinued selling the NF-B9 fan in case you might want to add another fan to this heatsink. He thanked me for my patience and told me he was going to find out the reason.

This Heatsink is not small by any means and probably too high for an HTPC but for a DAW I think it is perfect especially if you use rack mounted DAWs which are common in recording studios. This heatsink should be very quiet especially if using the included L.N.A. and the U.L.N.A. adapters.

I find that many reviewers don't have a good methodology and understanding of noise testing and their sound pressure levels in dB are all over the charts. When I hear comments like this is one quiet cooler at full load at 54 dB I wonder if the person knows how to read a sound level meter. I have one and 54 dB is as loud as a freight train or a Led Zeppelin concert when John Bonham was alive, may he rest in peace. Okay a little exaggeration but you know what I mean.

This cooler😎 should also provide *plenty* of cooling for moderate overclocking, say 30% over stock speed.

I would like to thank our Moderator and everyone else who chimed in and gave me advice on this very important decision for me of finding a quiet and efficient heatsink for my two new system builds and hopefully future proofed for the next decade. Sigh! See you all again then. Just kidding!

HIO

 
Where did everyone go?. Not one person thought i made a good choice?.

Where is our Moderator?

Moderator? Turn your 60 watt light bulb on.

Hope you are okay.
 
Originally posted by: HIO
Originally posted by: HIO
Originally posted by: aigomorla
u replace the fan to something quieter then.
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I dunno, I guess i know what your saying but in regards to what I said your last two posts were kind of cryptic, but thank you very much for your help, aigomoria.
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Sometimes the heatsink maker uses cheaper, louder fans. So use a quieter fan. Just make sure the HS you buy has a clip that allows you to change the fan.

I have the big brother of the Noctua you're looking at. It's pretty quiet. But will try a H50 on my next build.
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Originally posted by: Red Irish
Originally posted by: HIO
Originally posted by: aigomorla
u replace the fan to something quieter then.
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Excuse me. What r u talkin bout??? In Engish,... puhleeze sir! <VBGTG>
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That was rude. You deserve no help from anyone.
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Read the context of the thread.
Better yet just learn to read.
Oh,... and get a life.

<VBGTG> Very Big Gold Tooth Grin

Punk!

 
lol...

Let me know how that cooler works out. I have a HTPC, but I have one which actually fits a 120mm fan on the rear exhaust. Only problem is I can't fit the MONSTER towers in it because the placement of the CPU socket and the side wall will not let any overhang occur (and on some the heat pipes hit the support bracket for the top of the case). Right now I have a Ninja in it, and it does and ok job... would like something that would fit a little better and be just a quiet (I have 3 fans in the system 3 S-FLEX-f 120mm fans (2 under volted, the other controlled by the CPU pin)).
 
Originally posted by: HIO
Originally posted by: Red Irish
Originally posted by: HIO
Originally posted by: aigomorla
u replace the fan to something quieter then.
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Excuse me. What r u talkin bout??? In Engish,... puhleeze sir! <VBGTG>
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That was rude. You deserve no help from anyone.
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Read the context of the thread.
Better yet just learn to read.
Oh,... and get a life.

<VBGTG> Very Big Gold Tooth Grin

Punk!
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I dislike grammar nazis, particularly grammar nazis who are asking for help. If you were simply trying to be humourous, sorry, my mistake.
 
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