Whats a decent cooler for AMD Phenom II X4 955?

ash-306 · 21 Oct 2009 at 10:00

Right, i need a decent cooler for my new 955 but dont want to spend no more than £20 really. RIGHT, Im using all of my memory slots (4 of them) and i have a OCZ Memory Cooler Ver 2.

Im looking at these: XIGMATEK HDT-D1284 or XIGMATEK HDT-S1283 OR XIGMATEK HDT-S1284 OR Titan Fenrir TTC-NK85TZ but will these fit with my memory cooler aswell? Also, which one is the best as ive heard that S1284 is better?

Or do i go for the Corsair H50???

Muel · 21 Oct 2009 at 10:39

I have a Titan Fenriron my 965, works amazingly, but it's stupidly big, I can only use 3 of my DIMM slots because the heatsink hangs over the top of one. I think you can rotate it 90 degress though but I wanted the hot air going through vertically and straight out of the exaust fan on the roof.

skid34 · 21 Oct 2009 at 10:47

i have the Titan cooler, although on a x2 [email protected] it cools the cpu very well never seen the temps rise above 37 when gaming which is very good for the price i think.

ash-306 · 21 Oct 2009 at 10:49

skid34 said:
i have the Titan cooler, although on a x2 [email protected] it cools the cpu very well never seen the temps rise above 37 when gaming which is very good for the price i think.

Muel said:
I have a Titan Fenriron my 965, works amazingly, but it's stupidly big, I can only use 3 of my DIMM slots because the heatsink hangs over the top of one. I think you can rotate it 90 degress though but I wanted the hot air going through vertically and straight out of the exaust fan on the roof.

Ok, sounds good to me. I will have it so it blows out of rear of case in the a exhaust fan. Did you use the thermal compound that come with it?

UKAndy B · 21 Oct 2009 at 10:53

I have the Arctic Cooling Freezer Xtreme, running on an Asus M4N78 Pro MB, and can fit OCZ memory in all slots (Reaper model, with raised heatpipes, so are a LOT taller than standard memory).I can also fit a raised passive Thermalright cooler on the chipset just under the cpu. All fits fine, and super quiet, with low temps. I have the same CPU (Phenom 955) also. Hope that helps.

Andy

skid34 · 21 Oct 2009 at 11:14

ash-306 said:
Ok, sounds good to me. I will have it so it blows out of rear of case in the a exhaust fan. Did you use the thermal compound that come with it?

yes i did use the thermal compound that come in the box with the cooler

ash-306 · 21 Oct 2009 at 11:27

Ok, titan i think it is as the AC Freezer Xtreme has quite a bad review on one site that where it sits on the CPU is too small.

ash-306 · 21 Oct 2009 at 11:58

ORDERED! Titan Fenrir TTC-NK85TZ. Thanks people.