Which PSU for my setup?

[Biscuit]

It does come with some thermal paste however i would recomend getting a tube of arctic silver 5 instead

[nat03]

Just noticed i made a rookie mistake

components from scan came in, still waiting on a mobo from komplett...

but i noticed the xigmatek is too big for my ultima 90 heatsink :S

Looking at their specifications again i realised they are different.

damnit! lol

edit: or can u use it even though its bigger?

[Biscuit]

It takes both 120mm and 90mm fans mate

Not sure it comes with clips for both though

[Thorsson]

It does come with both clips.

[nat03]

ah thats gd news, cheers. yeh seems to be 2 different sized of clips in the box.

just need to wait for the mobo before i can dig in. get ur act together komplett, lol

[DratUK]

Theres a tube of Thermalright paste in with the box if memory serves me right.

Just as a side note I built a system last week with an IP35-E Q6600 and the Ultima. I bought a 120 Xigmatek and the 92mm version. TBH there was no real difference, it OC straight to 3GHz temps were fine.
Rather than waste the 120mm I put it into the 5 and a quarter drive area so it was resting on top of the dvd drive. This then blew cool air over the CPU cooler and the Northbridge cooler. This shaved another couple of degrees off.
Those fans are top notch, I could barely hear them unless I got real close to them.

[nat03]

Well all my parts came in, had slight problems putting it together.

I tried to follow the motherboard manual, but the order of procedures weren't very good causing me to take parts back out to fit other ones before placing them back in.

Also am i meant to have any screws attaching the fan to the heatsink or just the clips?

I don't know if the heatsink is secure, as i can spin the heatsink sitting on the cpu quite easily... it is held down but still can spin it especially with the thermal paste between it.

the heatsink guide is too basic...

well atm the pc is sitting flat on its side so the heatstink definitely wont fall off. i tried turning on the pc see if i can get things working but i have a new problem.

I've posted it on another part of the hexus forums; reply there if yous can help.

http://forums.hexus.net/help-technic...ml#post1343618

cheers

[Biscuit]

Also am i meant to have any screws attaching the fan to the heatsink or just the clips?

No, the connection with the mounting clips may seem a little wobbly but they hold fine

I don't know if the heatsink is secure, as i can spin the heatsink sitting on the cpu quite easily... it is held down but still can spin it especially with the thermal paste between it.

If the screws holding the heatsink are securely in then you should be ok, try and tightening them make sure its secure

[Biscuit]

my mate is using a xigmatec 120mm which actually provides better overclocking on his thermalright extreme 120 than the S-FLEX while remaining quiet

Bought one of these to test it out and its horrific! the vibrations are immense and its no where near as quiet as a 2000 rpm sharkoon. You say its quieter than an s-flex... well i think il deffo stick to sharkoons and akasa

[Thorsson]

Perhaps he had a bad SFlex, or you had a bad Xig (seems more likely, they have to be cutting costs somewhere). I can say that my SFlex 1600, on the HS, is effectively silent at full.