Great "little" cooler

[Fozzie]

Going on Tom's recommendation I bought a Coolermaster TX2 and have been very impressed.

It's reduced the temperature on one of my quads significantly over the stock cooler.

Maybe now I'll be able to over clock the thing better.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/CPU-Coolers-Phenom-Core2,review-30238-6.html

[Paratima]

Nice-looking fan ya got there.

The best thing I ever did for my crunchers (other than the bare-bones variety) was to put 'em in THESE (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811166038).

Lots o' room. Lots o' fans (3 X 120mm)! Lots o' cool. :thumbs:

[Digital Parasite]

I'm trying to decide on a good cooler. I was thinking something from Thermalright seems to work very well.

Either Ultra-120 Extreme:
http://www.anandtech.com/casecooling/showdoc.aspx?i=2943

or the IFX-14:
http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&articID=673

I'm not really sure what the advantages/disadvantages are between each one.

[PCZ]

If you want a good cooler then you wont go far wrong with a tuniq tower 120.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/pimg/HS-001-SB_400.jpg

The Freezer 7 pro is a good heatsink that doesn't require a backplate.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/pimg/HS-017-AR_400.jpg

Stock heatsinks on quads are not adequate if you want to Overclock past 3Ghz.
Especially for DC'ers as we run 100% 24/7.

Another thing to watch out for is throttling.
Quads will throttle at around 70c.
Use coretemp to monitor whilst under load.

[Fozzie]

Where do you get your kit, specifically the gigabyte board you mentioned in the OGR thread?

Cheers

Fozzie

[PCZ]

http://overclockers.co.uk

DS3L Cheaper Version
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-100-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=913

DS3R Raid version
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-088-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=913


DS3L
Scan
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=661326

[vaio]

Try http://www.scan.co.uk/ too.........they always seem very competitive re prices and regularly have Gigabyte boards on "today only" special offers.:)