Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Rev 2 on i5. Any good?

BS Dave

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As in the title really. Has anyone got one of these:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-035-AR&tool=3

On an i5. I'd be looking to overclock, but don't really wanna spend £45 plus on cooling - i'm on a bit of a budget (mortgage/girlfriend etc)

I'd wait for the new fenrir (with 1156 support to come out) but i'm not sure it'd fit in my Lian Li PC60 either...if anyone have experience of a big 120mm cooler in a PC60 i'd love to hear from you.

Many thanks

Dave
 
what sort of clocks were you getting Meatloaf?

and btw did you buy your i5 oem or retail? and why?

Also how loud are you find the H50?
 
You get what you pay for really, i had a Freezer on my i7 for a couple of days and the Megahalem is about 15-20c better.

Depends on how far you wanna push things.
 
It's fine mate if you dont want to really push your i5. I'm running mine at 3.4ghz at 32-37 degrees idle which I'm happy with. Plus it's not overly noisey either. Under load it doesn't go much above 50 so far, but then I haven't really pushed it.
 
BS Dave said:
what sort of clocks were you getting Meatloaf?

and btw did you buy your i5 oem or retail? and why?

Also how loud are you find the H50?
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Got an OEM i5 and used the £20 saved on the CPU to buy the akasa. At 4Ghz @ 1.3v, idle temps were 25-29 degrees accross the cores, load temps touched the 80s.

The H50 is quiet - well i cant hear it anyhow over the fish tank i have in the room. The main reason i got the H50 really was to free up the memory slots that the akasa blocked so i can add more RAM.
 
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