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Which calls their testing into question as I said
Which calls their testing into question as I said
Well I think that the curved base that ment only two thirds of it was makeing good contact would also have a rather major impact on the tempsWhich calls their testing into question as I said
They really need to retest that one.
The difficulty is finding a good mounting thats in stock =[.
I need to wait till next month to finish my build, since scan are the only place that stocks the mounting I need and it isn't in stock until the end of the month...pfft.
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Exactly, so why even include it in their reviews....and if they can overlook that, what else have they overlooked? Just seems poor to me.....Well I think that the curved base that ment only two thirds of it was makeing good contact would also have a rather major impact on the temps
They really need to retest that one.
Would it be easier to install the CPU with the motherboard outside the case first? (scythe MINE)
Asus P5KC / Intel Quad Q9450 @ 2.66ghz / Scythe Mine Cooler / 2 x 2gb G.Skill 8500+ / 2 x 160 Maxtor HDD/ xfx9800gtx xxx / Antec p182 / Corsair 650watt / Samsung 26" hdtv / Logitech Mx518 / Microsoft rt2300
I have the Zalman CNPS9700, and recommend it.
I was very worried at first as my BIOS automatically controls the fan speed by itself, depending on realtime CPU temperatures, but the CNPS9700 fan wasn't ever spinning up! I had Windows booted up and being used (very lightly, as I was apprehensive) for five or six whole minutes, but there the CPU fan sat idle, doing nothing! I kept rebooting into the BIOS to check out the CPU temperatures and they weren't going above 27ºC.
Can only think that the heatsink of the CNPS9700 is working so well the temperatures weren't high enough to need to spin the fan up. I have a quiet intake fan perpendicular to the CNPS9700 (in the chassis side-window), and a quiet system exhaust fan in-line with the CNPS9700 on the rear, and they are keeping it sufficiently cool to not need the CNPS9700 fan.
I was still paranoid, so switched CPU fan control to "manual", and now have it ticking over at the lowest (quietest) setting. From the BIOS (just rebooted to check) the CPU temperature is a cool 20ºC.
Not bad for a Q9450 2.66GHz quad. Time to stretch its legs, methinks!
Yes. In my case the Zalman has a retention bracket that sits underneath the motherboard for extra support (given the Zalman's weight), so it had to be assembled outside of the case.Would it be easier to install the CPU with the motherboard outside the case first? (scythe MINE)
is lapping a cpu worth it, considering not being a person willing to spend more than 30 mins to and hour doing it??
Depends if anything is curvey or not. my old Pentium D was rather convex, after a couple of weeks I removed the stock cooler and the paste at the edges had been squished out to the thinest of layers but the stuff in the middle was barely disturbed.
I spent about a 30-45min lapping it level, note not supper smooth of mirrored but mainly as I only had 400grain we&dry paper.
It was far more shiney than at stock, mainly copper although there was a small patch of the grey metal in the middle, It behaved far better after that.
I attacked it a couple of months later with 600grain and got it all coppery and more shiney, although it didn't make much differnce to the temps compaired to the first lapping.
Use a stright edge (make sure the edge you use is stright) hold it on the cpu and peer at it closely, try to rock it, drag it across while looking. you should be able to spot any major curves.
If your thermal paste is of the more fluid type (unlike the stuff on the stock cooler) then you should be able to get a pritty thin layer over the whole cpu, fasten your cooler down then remove it again, while even this will tend to be more thermal paste than you should need/use when running your pc
However if your paste is fairly fluid you'll be able to tell from it and the cooler base if you were getting even contact or not.
I also found this worked well for getting the right amount of my Zalman ZM-STG1 on my cpu, after the contact test I wiped off the cooler base but not the cpu and reseated it, effectively halving the original amount I had on.
My e6600 Passed both the stright edge test and thermal grease test so I've not bothered to lap it yet (although I need to get some more and finer wet & dry before I can anyway)
the one thing i would say about CPU coolers is the best ones are huge!! you have to check with your case whether they will fit or not.
looking at the tuniq tower and thermalright 120 ultra in particular
Indeed, just huge perforated bricks lol. My TRUE fits snugly inside my P182 howeverthe one thing i would say about CPU coolers is the best ones are huge!! you have to check with your case whether they will fit or not.
looking at the tuniq tower and thermalright 120 ultra in particular
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If you can live with the colour scheme, try the Noctua NH-U12P. I have one and it's very quiet when the fan is at high speed. It comes with a low noise adapter which is basically just a cable that reduces the voltage and fan speed to make it even quieter.
Aparently it is also very good for overclocking although I've not tested this myself. You can also fit a 2nd fan to the heatsink for enhanced cooling.
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The ultima isnt HUGE, its bigger than stock but its nice and tidy. Performs as well as (if not better in some cases) than the 120the one thing i would say about CPU coolers is the best ones are huge!! you have to check with your case whether they will fit or not.
looking at the tuniq tower and thermalright 120 ultra in particular
I'm a big fan of the Noctua fans
Having an obsession with fans, noise to air shifted ratios and such. Looking for that mythical fan with zero noise shifting mucho air.
Of course if passive water cooling was more affordable.......the Resreator me likee a lotee
Is there some reason why noone has mentioned the zerotherm nirvana?
A few pics of my latest build, with the Zalman CNPS9700 on a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 board:
Did an hours worth of rarring (winrar) of about 30GB of continuous data, several files at once, with all four cores of my Q9450 maxxed out at 100%, and the CPU temps showed 26ºC at the end. That air-intake fan embedded in the side of the window works great though. Pulls cool air in, into the Zalman, which then gets thrown out of the rear exhaust and straight out of the system.
Case is a Nzxt Lexa.
Well I am getting my nirvana tomorrow, wil let people know how it turns out
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