The PC Air Cooling Club

[mastrdrver]

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...

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.

 

[R3DF13LD]

@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

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

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.

 

[EastCoasthandle]

As you said earlier most don't change the heat sink much at all so why make a standard?

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.

@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

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

Edit:
While the Home Page says it's 1156 compatible the retailer that sells it doesn't mention 1156. Only AMD and 775.

 

[t77snapshot]

To get the best airflow performance , the cut out of the grills is a must

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z58/tonschk/Image0113.jpg

what case is that?

 

[overclocking101]

those d14's are huge!! wow i dont think i could have all my ram slots covered like that!

 

[EastCoasthandle]

those d14's are huge!! wow i dont think i could have all my ram slots covered like that!

I was thinking the exact same thing.

 

[wolf]

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.

 

[brandonwh64]

Corsair A70

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

those d14's are huge!! wow i dont think i could have all my ram slots covered like that!

That helps. But it's a moot point, everyone's buying Archons and Silver Arrows now.

 

[EastCoasthandle]

Silver Arrow vs NH-D14

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

And the Archon seems to do even better, when in push pull. So I say buy that. More finger room anyways. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers/display/thermalright-archon_4.html

 

[Atmos]

I'm a fellow air-cooler, I use a Hyper 212 +.

 

[EastCoasthandle]

I'm a fellow air-cooler, I use a Hyper 212 +.

Welcome to TPU

 

[cdawall]

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

 

[wolf]

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?

 

[cdawall]

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?

a pair of high speed rulian science's and the bigger TEC not to mention i killed the controller it came with

 

[wolf]

a pair of high speed rulian science's and the bigger TEC not to mention i killed the controller it came with

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?

 

[cdawall]

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?

idle temps can be sub ambient on the right chip

 

[jellyrole]

I air cool my water, does that count?

 

[wolf]

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

 

[cdawall]

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

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

 

[R3DF13LD]

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

Edit:
While the Home Page says it's 1156 compatible the retailer that sells it doesn't mention 1156. Only AMD and 775.

@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

 

[AsRock]

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 ). 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.

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.

 

[cdawall]

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.

got mine when the had a huge rebate $10 ran great 2 fans and i got my 5000+ BE over 3ghz