high end air cooling

[bigKr33]

I want to get a new heatsink so i can overclock higher. My current heat sink swiftech 6400-v is good, but anything past 1.475 on a sandy cpu gets too hot for my taste 52c+. And i'm using arctic silver 5. I heard of a heat sink somewhere that can keep the load temps in the high 30's to low 40's.

Any recommendations and links will do.

 

[imhungry]

Scythe Ninja
Thermaltake Big Typhoon
Artic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro [subjective]

Those are a solid 3 IMO

and

www.jab-tech.com is a great place to buy from.

 

[Hard Ball]

Also, this is something worth considering:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835118223

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: bigKr33
I want to get a new heatsink so i can overclock higher. My current heat sink swiftech 6400-v is good, but anything past 1.475 on a sandy cpu gets too hot for my taste 52c+. And i'm using arctic silver 5. I heard of a heat sink somewhere that can keep the load temps in the high 30's to low 40's.

Any recommendations and links will do.

Ive been happy with Thermalright for 2 1/2 years.

This might suit your needs to a tee.Its a good brand too, no cheap Asian imitation. :thumbsup:

 

[AntiStatic]

good air cooling starts with your case. if you have a small case with bad airflow it won't matter what hsf you stick on it.

 

[RollWave]

I run the A64 Freezer Pro and my load temps are about 43C when OC'ing my Venice 3000+ from 1.8 to 2.5....

 

[RollWave]

oh and my idle temp dropped 15C

 

[Bobthelost]

The SI 120 with a nexus 120mm orange is hard to beat.

 

[lytalbayre]

Can anyone say XP-90 or XP-90C??? Aren't these still the undisputed champions??

Thanks.

 

[RollWave]

Yeah but with the AC A64 Freezer Pro you dont have to deal with putting changing the HS Bracket!! A64 Freezer FTW!

 

[RichUK]

If you want the mother of all heatsinks i believe the Tuniq Tower 120 is the better performer at the moment, shaving a couple of degrees off of its closest competitor.

 

[5t3v0]

Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro - fan blowing air sideways through HS onto exhaust fan at the back of the case
3 x SilenX case fans - 2 side intake, 1 rear exhaust - quiet(ish), powerful & colourful
Arctic Cooling ATI Silencer 5 Rev .2 - exhausts from graphics chip straight out the back of the case

Colder than a penguin's cold bits. Well nearly: CPU max = 45C (on 1.55v), GPU max = 55C, Chipset max = 33C

EDIT: Oh, and Arctic Alumina ceramic thermal compound 'cause I dont like metal based ones near to my sensitive electronic components.

 

[tommo123]

i went with an xp-120 with a 120mm delta 190cfm fan.

piccy 1
piccy 2

loud, but effective

 

[pacho108]

anything better than a SI-120?
my opty is running quite hot at stock voltages with a SI-120 (52C-54C load)

 

[imported_blkdiamond]

I currently have the Artic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro with my Opteron 165 running at 2.5 GHz, stock voltage.
Idle: 30 C
Load: 45 C

 

[CLohre]

I have a Zalman CNPS9500 and a Overclocked 3700+ @ 2.6GHz and I get 36-40 idle and 42-46 load. Which is geat since I got it at 1.45 and 400Mhz out of it.

 

[Absolute0]

I have an AC Freezer 64 Pro, paid 25$ for it, got an Opty (hmm in the FS section) doing 3.1 Ghz on it.

 

[Avalon]

I love my SI-120 with an 85CFM Sunon slapped onto it.

 

[bigKr33]

These are all great posts, but i think i found my choice. I read a review on the Scythe Ninja in a p180 case which i happen to own and the load temps were insane 26c idle, and 36c load. I think his cpu was stock, but still i found some other reviews and alot of the overclocks were pegged at around the low 40c range under load on amd's.

Its just a matter of finding it instock now.

 

[Leper Messiah]

ThermalTake Big Typhoon. my X2 is loading at about 40C right now (granted with 16C room temps, but still)

 

[cretinbob]

So my venice 3200+ running at 2.5 (9x280) at 32c with an arctic freezer is doing pretty well huh?

maybe I have some more room to overclock

and that is with a load. I think I hit 33c once.

 

[lopri]

I just got a Zalman CNPS9500 from CompUSA sale ($50), and quite disappointed. Compared to Big Typhoon, Idle temp is 3C~5C higher and load temp is 5C~10C higher. Same ambient temp, open-air testbed. Result could be different inside a case, but I don't think it'd be TOO different.

 

[bigKr33]

Originally posted by: cretinbob
So my venice 3200+ running at 2.5 (9x280) at 32c with an arctic freezer is doing pretty well huh?

maybe I have some more room to overclock

and that is with a load. I think I hit 33c once.

can you send me a link to your heatsink. And whats the ambient temperature in your room and/or case.

 

[Kaeishiwaza]

The SI 120 with a nexus 120mm orange is hard to beat.

:thumbsup:

 

[bigKr33]

Alot of reviews i look up always come up with completely different results. I could look up a SI 120 on one site, and look on another site and get completely temps and opinions. Its making it really hard for me to decide. My swiftech MCX6400 heatsink on a stock 3700 sandy idles anywhere between 31-33c @800rpm's, and when i'm playing far cry its load is only about 38c.

Whats killing my temps when i'm overclocking is prime95. I had my cpu at 250x11 with the voltage in the bios set up as 1.475v (shows as 1.408 in cpu-z). My load temps in prime95 were 51-53c, which is too hot for my taste. Infact my computer locked up after 11hrs of running the program. The main problem was that i was getting a parasitic temperature increase, i noticed that every 2hrs or so while running prime95 that my chipset temp, and cpu temp would rise 1c. So just think what it was at while i was sleeping in the middle of the test.

This is why i wanna get a different heatsink. I do want to go phase change, but it doesn't seem that ocz is coming out with their phase change for a while yet, and i'm not spending $800+ for a vapochill or something.