The Best Air cpu Cooler

MeddlE said:
Yeah, attached using standard IFX fan clips.

Cooling is very good, tops out at 61deg when running Shift2, E8500 clocked at 4.2GHz.

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Pic is more of my GPU cooler mod but you can see the IFX at the top.
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I remember now posting in the thread from where you got this pic:).

Looks even more badass than silver arrow.

I think I would love to buy TY-140 aswell in future.

They are PWM right? So fan speed increases with cpu loading?

Really like to see a TY-140 vs Akasa Viper test.
 
TY140 are PWM but I run them at full wack off a fan controller, they are that quiet. Quieter than the Yate Loon D12SL that I use as case fans.
 
Its completely stupid, what if you wanted to remove a SATA cable and you had those cables that actually click into the socket that need squeezing to unlatch.
 
stulid said:
Its completely stupid, what if you wanted to remove a SATA cable and you had those cables that actually click into the socket that need squeezing to unlatch.
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ScratchFive said:
it looks like theres no HS over the top of the RAM PCB in that photo which makes me wonder...
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I think Frio GT will remain a rare cooler and may be purchased by extreme overclocking enthusiasts or rich gits.

However I can definitely see Frio Extreme selling quite well if prices are reasonable and may well give Silver Arrow and NH-D14 a run for their money in performance. I actually hope it beats the former two.:)
 
MeddlE said:
Why? Not everyone wants to do water. I certainly don't.
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Just saying, if you get air cooling that serious buying something that big that relies on you supporting it to youre case in several places it just makes logical sense youre enthusiatic enough to go water. But each to their own, took me a while to get the courage to go water.
 
JonnyG1982 said:
Just saying, if you get air cooling that serious buying something that big that relies on you supporting it to youre case in several places it just makes logical sense youre enthusiatic enough to go water. But each to their own, took me a while to get the courage to go water.
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Courage?:rolleyes: No, personal choice.

I've never really got the water cooling thing, I mean they still use fans. I could understand if they were fanless and therefore generated no noise but they actually add a pump which generates noise.
I get exceptional cooling with the use of fans and heatsinks which operate below the ambient noise level of my house and require a dust blowout every now and then. No loop draining, no algae problems.

That doesn't mean I'm against water cooling it just means I'm not interested. I very much doubt that I am alone in that feeling.
 
I recently bought a CM Hyper 212+ for £13 on a "today only"-type deal. Not quite in the same league as the Noctua or Silver Arrow, but pretty unbeatable for bang-per-buck value.


I was thinking of going push/pull, so tried to find a CM BladeMaster 120 PWM fan (to match the 212+ fan) - the cheapest I can find is £11. So I'm waiting for the same offer again to buy a second kit. Then I'll have a 212+ push/pull, plus a spare heatsink/mount/etc for "modding" (ie solder-filling the gaps in the base, and lapping to a mirror finish). I doubt it will drastically improve performance, but it will keep me out of trouble for a few evenings.
 
I've always been concerned with huge cpu heatsinks/fans, they may do a good job of dispersing heat but as 99% of pc cases secure the motherboard vertically, the heatsink is a huge amount of weight hanging on to the actual motherboard. If only a system was devised to mount the heatsink onto a solid metal surface behind the motherboard and supports 'pass through' the motherboard rather than being secured to it.

Obviously you get metal brackets that secure to the back of the motherboard but the entire heatsink weight is still on the motherboard. I'd like to think manufacturers stress test the weight of their heatsinks on motherboards but since these new all in one cpu watercoolers have come out, Im more inclined to go for these.
 
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