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    Best cheap low profile cooler?

    As above for a G3220 upto about £15 whats the best cooler? Can be upto 120mm but a bit less would be nice
    Will they be much better than a 4670k cooler?
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    Re: Best cheap low profile cooler?

    Arctic Cooling Freezer 11 LP - £13.47 delviered

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    I haven't used this one myself, but have owned/installed loads of other Artic Cooling heatsinks over the years and they have all been both value for money and silent to run.

    Assuming that the Intel 4670K does not come with a heat pipe cooler, the Freezer 11 LP should give you both lower temperatures and less noise.
    Last edited by SUMMONER; 10-05-2014 at 04:33 AM.

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    Re: Best cheap low profile cooler?

    Quote Originally Posted by SUMMONER View Post
    Arctic Cooling Freezer 11 LP - £13.47 delviered

    BitTech review

    I haven't used this one myself, but have owned/installed loads of other Artic Cooling heatsinks over the years and they have all been both value for money and silent to run.

    Assuming that the Intel 4670K does not come with a heat pipe cooler, the Freezer 11 LP should give you both lower temperatures and less noise.
    I completely agree. Very good value for money and very good performance on arctic coolers

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    Re: Best cheap low profile cooler?

    Sorry to hijack, but would you guys say that it's worth spending a little more for something like this:

    http://www.scan.co.uk/products/coole...55-1156-1366-a

    Rather than something like the arctic cooling above- just trying to work out if it's really worth it!

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    Re: Best cheap low profile cooler?

    If I'm not mistaken, the Zelos is a re branded Praeton LD963, which is slightly confusingly the replacement for the LD964. It is slightly behind the Noctua L9i, which beats out the Freezer 11 LP. So the Zelos and 11 LP may be in the same neighborhood when it comes to performance.

    http://www.hardwarebbq.com/intel-65w...ck-cooler-2/8/

    The Hyper 212 is a good all rounder in terms of value and performance. If you need that level of cooling performance, it is priced reasonably and reasonably quiet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by karl751 View Post
    I like the fact that there are 3 instead of 2 heatpipes on the Raijintek Zelos and also that they directly touch the processor (every little helps).
    I can't comment on the durability/quietness of Raijintek's fans, but the spec (1400RPM at 20dBA) sounds lovely.

    So the Raijintek Zelos LP certainly looks better on paper when it comes to getting the heat away from the processor.
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    Re: Best cheap low profile cooler?

    How important is the cheap bit of the requirement? For the price, you can't beat http://www.scan.co.uk/products/north...-graphic-cards. Only issue might be that you'd need to do a small amount of modding to fit it, but it's a lovely, very low profile, all copper cooler; very quiet, very effective (I'm using one to cool a 65W Phenom II X4). I grabbed a couple on a whim when I was putting in an order months ago, and I've been very impressed with them.

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    Re: Best cheap low profile cooler?

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    How important is the cheap bit of the requirement? For the price, you can't beat http://www.scan.co.uk/products/north...-graphic-cards. Only issue might be that you'd need to do a small amount of modding to fit it, but it's a lovely, very low profile, all copper cooler; very quiet, very effective (I'm using one to cool a 65W Phenom II X4). I grabbed a couple on a whim when I was putting in an order months ago, and I've been very impressed with them.
    How much modding would be the required amount for a CPU socket, if you wouldn't mind to elaborate, please?

    Looks fairly interesting, the price is on pair with Intel stock cooler for re-sale/OEM and it is LP.

    How are temps on that 65w Phenom II x4 for comparison (idle plus under load) if by any chance you have the/some numbers?

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    Re: Best cheap low profile cooler?

    Assuming you're looking to fit it to an Intel s115X motherboard - The s775 fitting is a plastic ring with small plastic clips on the bottom that clip into the normal fitting holes (where the pushpins from an intel stoc cooler would go). The cooler then screws in to separate holes on the plastic ring. I'd have to look up the hole spacing difference between s775 and the newer intel coolers to be sure exactly how much it'd need messing with, but it's always possible one of the other fittings might be usable by bolting through a couple of the holes instead.

    EDIT: I've read up and it looks like there's a 2-3mm spacing difference. I strongly suspect the plastic is flexible enough that with a bit of pressure the s775 fitting would actually attach to a s115X motherboard. At the worst, you might have to heat the plastic up slightly to expand the ring (being careful not to warp the screw holes that the heatsink attaches too, of course ).

    I've used them on sockets AM3 and FM1, and while the fitting to the existing backplate isn't absolutely tight, the fitting between the cooler and its retaining frame is spring loaded so it actually maintains good contact even though the frame isn't absolutely screwed down tight.

    I'm about to give the rig with the Phenom away, but when I fired it up today it stayed at low 30s idle, and ISTR it topping out in mid 50s when I gave it a load test a while back. This is in my AOpen h360b, which is a very small matx desktop case, sat alongside a low profile HD7750, and with the only exhaust fan being the 80mm one in the TFX PSU the case uses. I've also got one on a three-core FM1 APU (also 65W TDP) in an even slimmer Silverstone desktop case.

    I'll try to run some tests with the APU rig, but I'm not sure when I'll have the time, tbh. I shold be able to post up some pics of the retaining brackets so you can see how they work Given I'm not using them I could you send a couple of spares and you could try fitting them to see if they work, if you want...? What mobo do you want to fit it to?

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    Re: Best cheap low profile cooler?

    Coincidentally would be mainly to refresh existing s775 PCs where factory models been fitted with noisy and slightly inadequate cooling solutions, sometimes aided by a air tunnel.

    I know from previously carried out changes that a modern LP cooler is more that adequate plus provides a quieter solution. Until now, as stipulated above, the price has been a problem (more in some cases that others).

    But your idea is cheap, effective and with a bit of modding elegant as well.

    Will have an experiment as soon somebody asks me again for this service (can't wait, been pretty bored lately, some people actually buy new rather have the old fixed...).

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    Re: Best cheap low profile cooler?

    Well, it comes with s775 fittings included, so if you're looking at using it for s775 boards then no modding is required

    It's so adaptable because the cooler itself simply screws down with 2 spring loaded arms. The packaging comes with about 6 different mounting brackets for a range of different sockets: you just fit the right bracket for your board then screw the cooler onto it. The cooler itself is all copper - the fins are fused together in the middle under the fan and make direct contact with the CPU. It's perfect for replacing the nasty whiny stock coolers on pre-built PCs, all the way back to the s478 days (yes, it has s478 fittings ). ALL those old Hyperthreaded P4 machines can be given a new lease of quieter life!

    As far as I can tell from the compatibility list it's rated to at least 90W TDP, possibly more, although I'm not sure I'd be happy using it on anything much above 65W personally...

    They also come with a fan controller bundled (just a simple 3-pin inline one with a twisty button to reduce/increase speed), which IMNSHO is probably worth more than half the cost on its own

    Oooh, and thinking about it they might actually be one of the few third party coolers that would fit an AM1 platform (using the GPU mounting kit; I reckon it would work!). If anyone wants to buy me an AM1 mobo & SoC, I'll happily test that

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    Re: Best cheap low profile cooler?

    I'd go for the Zalman CNPS 8000, I've owned one before and they're brilliant. Doesn't make a sound and they do a great job of cooling the CPU. They're not extremely low profile but it's definitely a lot shorter than the usual CPU cooler.

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    Re: Best cheap low profile cooler?

    I found this to be helpful when selecting mine the problem with PC parts sometimes is they all work well and there's just so many of them.

    http://pricespy.co.uk/category.php?k...moms#prodlista


    As far as the hyper 212 goes it is a great cooler been surpassed by this now though and the best part is it's very quiet.
    http://www.scan.co.uk/products/enerm...m2-am2plus-am3

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