Thermalright or Scythe

[CallMeJoe]

I'm considering a system upgrade, and am looking at:

Asus P5NSLI with E6300 Core 2 Duo
Gigabyte GV-NX73T256P-RH (silent pipe 7300GT)
Corsair TWIN2X1024A-6400

This will be installed in my first generation Antec Sonata case with Enermax Noisetaker 485 PSU, Evercool 120 mm exhaust fan, Seagate HDDs and Samsung DVD-RW. Obviously, quiet is more important to me than horsepower.

I have come down to these HSFs:

Scythe Mine
Thermalright XP-90 with Nexus 92mm
Thermalright Ultra-90 with Nexus 92mm
Thermalright HR-01 ducted to 120mm exhaust

Would I have component clearance problems with the tower coolers in my small mid-tower case?

Will any of these HSFs significantly outcool the others?

Would the tower coolers (esp the HR-01) give me temp problems with the passively cooled 570SLI northbridge because of the lack of airflow?

 

[acegazda]

The scythe mine is definetly the best of those, check any review site. It goes for like $35 @ newegg too.
You shouldn't have a problem, I've seen ninjas in a sonata case and the mine is smaller than a ninja.

 

[Ricemarine]

If you read on the forums of Silentpcreview...

Scythe mine = Meant for more active cooling, so if you want something that doesn't blow something like 40 cfm, get a scythe ninja for it...

Thermalright xp-90... Light... Good for regular cooling/overclocking (I use the 92mm nexus and xp-90 setup)...

Thermalright Ultra-90. I'd prefer getting the 120, since its the best rated heatsink on silentpcreview, but due to it being a tower, its pretty good... To check for clearance, better get that ruler .

 

[NYHoustonman]

Don't discount the Scythe Ninja... In reviews I've read it does better with low-CFM fans than the mine (and both of these perform better than much of anything outside of a TT Big Typhoon/Tuniq Tower.

 

[Howard]

Doesn't matter, the rest of the system will almost certainly drown out the fan on the HS.

 

[CallMeJoe]

Originally posted by: Howard
Doesn't matter, the rest of the system will almost certainly drown out the fan on the HS.

???

My Evercool case fan spins @ 1700 RPM, and my PSU fan @ 1400 RPM. I can clearly hear the 1700RPM fan running on the CNPS7000A/CU on my current system, and am not adding any other noise sources with the new components.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: Ricemarine
If you read on the forums of Silentpcreview...

Scythe mine = Meant for more active cooling, so if you want something that doesn't blow something like 40 cfm, get a scythe ninja for it...

Thermalright xp-90... Light... Good for regular cooling/overclocking (I use the 92mm nexus and xp-90 setup)...

Thermalright Ultra-90. I'd prefer getting the 120, since its the best rated heatsink on silentpcreview, but due to it being a tower, its pretty good... To check for clearance, better get that ruler .

You really need to take the SolentPC reviews with a grain of salt....
Now don`t get me wrong they are excellent reviews most of the time but they are NOT such a good site that you should discount all other sites in favor of other reviewing sites.

Case in point.....they reviewed a heatsink abou5 12-16 months ago and in there reviews they said on the low setting the heatsink kicked major ass but on the high setting the heatsink was way too loud....

Yet 6 other sites that reviewed the heatsink pointed out 1 of 2 things....
They said the heatsink to them was not loud or other fans and such in your case would be heard over the heatsink.....

Always use more than one review site before making up your mind!!

There are sites such as madshrimp.......(JonnyGuru`s site--PSU)....etc

 

[Nickel020]

Originally posted by: CallMeJoe

Originally posted by: Howard
Doesn't matter, the rest of the system will almost certainly drown out the fan on the HS.

???

My Evercool case fan spins @ 1700 RPM, and my PSU fan @ 1400 RPM. I can clearly hear the 1700RPM fan running on the CNPS7000A/CU on my current system, and am not adding any other noise sources with the new components.

1700 RPM is a lot, my case fans run at at >900 RPM, and my CPU fan at around 1000 RPM. If you're serious about silencing you're not gonna want anything running at more than 1000 RPM.
Chances are that what you already got is noisier than any of the above CPU coolers with a reasonably silent fan.
Personally I'd go with the Scythe Infinity. I don't know how it compares the the Tuniq Tower, but the differece ic marginal without a doubt if you were to use the same fan on each of them. Alo it's usually in stock as opposed to the Tuniq.

 

[Nickel020]

Originally posted by: JEDIYoda

You really need to take the SolentPC reviews with a grain of salt....
Now don`t get me wrong they are excellent reviews most of the time but they are NOT such a good site that you should discount all other sites in favor of other reviewing sites.

Case in point.....they reviewed a heatsink abou5 12-16 months ago and in there reviews they said on the low setting the heatsink kicked major ass but on the high setting the heatsink was way too loud....

Yet 6 other sites that reviewed the heatsink pointed out 1 of 2 things....
They said the heatsink to them was not loud or other fans and such in your case would be heard over the heatsink.....

Always use more than one review site before making up your mind!!

There are sites such as madshrimp.......(JonnyGuru`s site--PSU)....etc

This all depends on your definition of silent, most people would define it as "not annoying" while people on dedicated silencing websites define it as"unable to hear a component from a resonable distance". The PCs that most review sites are using are actually not anywhere near "silent #2" so you can't trust their statements about noise at low RPMs. What it means though is that most users won't notice a difference between most "good" heatsinks with "good" fans because the undervolted HSF ist just quieter than most PSUs/case fans/video cards or even HDs (my old P80 samsung used to be my loudest component until I got a 2504c).