I'm thinking of buying either the Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme or the Tuniq Tower 120. My motherboard will be a Gigabyte P35-DS3 and I read that at least the Tuniq will fit on this board. The CPU will be a Intel Q6600.
My biggest concern though is if the coolers will fit in my case. I plan to reuse my old Noise Control big tower case from my old Pentium 4 computer. I measured that from my old Asus P4B motherboard I have a little more than 16 cm space to the case door but I have about 1 cm of noise absorbing carpet so I only have 15 cm if I don't remove some of the carpet around the cooler.
After reading the specs I can see that the ThermalRight Ultra 120 Heat Sink has a height of 160.5 mm without the fan so I guess it won't fit with a fan mounted. Also if it just barely fit, how well will it perform when the fan doesn't have any room to blow the air anywhere? The Tuniq tower has a height of 15.5 cm and you don't have to mount a fan on the top so I guess I will be able to fit that into my case if I remove some of the carpet.
I'm thinking maybe I have to buy a new case, but I really like my old one since it is very quiet. Are new cases generally wider than old ones? Suggestions of other coolers that will fit better are also welcomed.
My biggest concern though is if the coolers will fit in my case. I plan to reuse my old Noise Control big tower case from my old Pentium 4 computer. I measured that from my old Asus P4B motherboard I have a little more than 16 cm space to the case door but I have about 1 cm of noise absorbing carpet so I only have 15 cm if I don't remove some of the carpet around the cooler.
After reading the specs I can see that the ThermalRight Ultra 120 Heat Sink has a height of 160.5 mm without the fan so I guess it won't fit with a fan mounted. Also if it just barely fit, how well will it perform when the fan doesn't have any room to blow the air anywhere? The Tuniq tower has a height of 15.5 cm and you don't have to mount a fan on the top so I guess I will be able to fit that into my case if I remove some of the carpet.
I'm thinking maybe I have to buy a new case, but I really like my old one since it is very quiet. Are new cases generally wider than old ones? Suggestions of other coolers that will fit better are also welcomed.
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