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The PC Air Cooling Club

EastCoasthandle said:
It's wishful thinking I know. But it's just that we've been doing this for far to long not to see any consistency in mounting HS by now :shadedshu. It would be nice to see something like that one day though...
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As you said earlier most don't change the heat sink much at all so why make a standard? In this case I think making some kind of standard would be for the worse but you know (imo).

I think could be some money to be made by just making a base kit that would work with a lot of the ~$30 coolers to replace the pins (on Intels) with something that bolts on. If you can make one that would cover a large market of these coolers since the only reason most don't work for others is because of the slight differences in thread pitch the manufacturers use.
 
@east thanks i'm already ordered thermolab baram 2010 today
i think it'll interfere with the ram thou maybe i put the fan on exhaust mode
 
Here's my fan arrangement and reasoning.

Front: 2x 120mm Enermax TBs. They move enough air for the drives, not great, but dead silent and long lasting bearing.
Side: 2x 140mm Enermax TBs. Again, not much air, silent, long lasting bearing and transparent so I can see into the case. I didn't focus on getting more airflow because it seemed to not improve temps in this location.
Top: 2x 140mm Bgears. These fans are nice, ball bearing (can use them horizontally), push a lot of air. On reducers they don't make much noise either.
Back (H70 rad set on exhaust): 2x 120mm. On pull I have an AP15, cause everyone should have at least one of them. On push I have a CM sickleflow/R4. The only sleeve bearing fan I allow in my case. In testing it has similar noise and airflow as the AP15, just bad tone and less durability. I use it instead of another AP15 for the looks.

My temps on everything are pretty fantastic, and noise is just a nice air rushing. Once I go SB I'll be using even more reducers.
 
mastrdrver said:
As you said earlier most don't change the heat sink much at all so why make a standard?
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It was never proven that one proprietary way of mounting HSF is better then another proprietary way. So I don't find it necessary. But to each his own. :toast:




R3DF13LD said:
@east thanks i'm already ordered thermolab baram 2010 today
i think it'll interfere with the ram thou maybe i put the fan on exhaust mode
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I'm sure there are others that spread out the heat pipes like that. But something to consider. However, I don't see where they come with 1156 mounting hardware :confused:

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While the Home Page says it's 1156 compatible the retailer that sells it doesn't mention 1156. Only AMD and 775.
 
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those d14's are huge!! wow i dont think i could have all my ram slots covered like that!
 
I just slammed a Thermaltake FRIO on my 1090T overclocked, gotta say its a pretty darn good air cooler, feels as good as the Noctua NH-U9B I've used on a few chips in the past.

pity is I can only use one fan on it (push) because my mobo only has 2 connectors, one CPU and one Chassis, but the chassis fan is a 120mm that lines up with it almost perfectly and sits about 80mm or so behind it as an exhaust out of the case.

I run it at the lowest speed setting (manual adjustment knob included) and its close to dead silent, CPU hasnt gone over 53 degrees.
 
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overclocking101 said:
those d14's are huge!! wow i dont think i could have all my ram slots covered like that!
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That helps. But it's a moot point, everyone's buying Archons and Silver Arrows now.
 
my air cooling is all done by a modded coolermaster V10 i will try and post some pics up of it later...has a 70 something watt TEC in it now and a 12VDC powersupply to itself
 
how did you mod a V10? I used one in its gigantic stock trim and it was already a helluva cooler, new higher flow fans maybe?
 
wolf said:
how did you mod a V10? I used one in its gigantic stock trim and it was already a helluva cooler, new higher flow fans maybe?
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a pair of high speed rulian science's and the bigger TEC not to mention i killed the controller it came with
 
cdawall said:
a pair of high speed rulian science's and the bigger TEC not to mention i killed the controller it came with
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I bet it really kicks some ass now, that much heatpipe/fins and fan combined with a more powerfull TEC... in the leauge of a small watercooling loop?
 
wolf said:
I bet it really kicks some ass now, that much heatpipe/fins and fan combined with a more powerfull TEC... in the leauge of a small watercooling loop?
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idle temps can be sub ambient on the right chip
 
I air cool my water, does that count?
 
what I've always wanted to do with water cooling is have the loop run out of the pc, and the radiator (big) sit inside a small fridge to get the coolant down to sub 5 degrees as it goes through the rad.

but alas it will be a pain in the ass to do, expensive, and that talk doesnt belong in this thread...

Can't believe a TEC and fan mod can get sub ambeint CPU temps... mad props man
 
wolf said:
what I've always wanted to do with water cooling is have the loop run out of the pc, and the radiator (big) sit inside a small fridge to get the coolant down to sub 5 degrees as it goes through the rad.

but alas it will be a pain in the ass to do, expensive, and that talk doesnt belong in this thread...

Can't believe a TEC and fan mod can get sub ambeint CPU temps... mad props man
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we are talking 1-2C below ambient and only on certain chips my athlon 64 3500+ being one of them

as for chilled water some really cool stuff in here http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=155
 
EastCoasthandle said:
I'm sure there are others that spread out the heat pipes like that. But something to consider. However, I don't see where they come with 1156 mounting hardware :confused:

Edit:
While the Home Page says it's 1156 compatible the retailer that sells it doesn't mention 1156. Only AMD and 775.
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@east dat is the old baram i think the baram 2010 get a new mounting n backplate for 1156 i've seen some on the reviews site if not then i'm gonna :banghead:
 
[Ion] said:
I'm using the Cooler Master GeminII, and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a cheap, high-performance cooler. It's running my Q9400 at full load at 38C in a 23C room, I picked it up for $20 shipped from CM ($9 + shipping :p). I'm running 2 low RPM 120mm fans on it, with the high-rpm fans it kept the quad at 33C loaded. Almost every enthusiast has spare 120mm fans, so for $20 it can't really be beat. And it keeps the northbridge and memory cool.
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Yeah they are good coolers, i use mine without a fan on my old 3800x2 and at full load don't get hotter than 97f even in summer when it's 30c.
 
AsRock said:
Yeah they are good coolers, i use mine without a fan on my old 3800x2 and at full load don't get hotter than 97f even in summer when it's 30c.
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got mine when the had a huge rebate $10 ran great 2 fans and i got my 5000+ BE over 3ghz
 
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