best cooler for i5 760

Depends if you want to stick to air cooling or go for a all-in-one water cooler and how much you want to spend.

On a side note, i still have my settings for my 760 in a P7P55D-E Pro @4Ghz if you want them.
 
that would be great :) what did you get out of it?
whatever is gonna get good results. whats the best for the money. was looking at the refurbed corsair h100
 
I use a Noctua NH-C12P SE14 with my i5 760 and am so happy with the performance.

I can now run my i5 760 at 3.52Ghz/4.0Ghz with turbo boost 24/7, where before I was running stock 2.93/3.33

Can run at 4.3Ghz when I want to do bench runs.

I also swapped the NF-P14 fan that comes with it for an Akasa Viper R high performance fan, giving me silence for most use and then high speed/air flow for benching.

And it fits in my Lian Li V355 :)

For the £50 or so that it cost it basically saved me having to upgrade as I now get all the performance I need from my i5 760.

Highly recommended.
 
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For the price and if it will fit in your case, the H100 refurb is unbeatable. A few have had leaks but the vast majority have been fine. Just remember, if it goes wrong and you need to RMA it, you need to send it to the Netherlands which could be up to half the price of what it cost in the first place. This put's me right off buying anything that Corsair sells.

Settings for 4Ghz

BCLK 200x20
Vcore 1.28750v (might need more as i had a good cpu)
IMC 1.16250v
PLL 1.8625v
PCH 1.0875v

Settings for 4.2Ghz

BCLK 200x21
Vcore 1.375v (huge increase for 200mhz so i left it at 4Ghz 24/7)
IMC 1.3125v
PLL 1.900v
PCH 1.15v

All other voltages set to minimum or auto. Both spread spectrums disabled. Obviously you will probably need to tweak these settings for your own setup.

I had to use a fixed voltage as i could never get the offset to work without the pc crashing. This also meant that all power saving options were disabled.
 
Thanks that will give it a little boost.

How much difference would there be between the noctua and the x100?
 
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Thanks that will give it a little boost.

How much difference would there be between the noctua and the x100?
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H100 refurb only has 90 day warranty... and where did all these H100s' come from that needed to be "refurbished"? RMAs' perhaps? :rolleyes:

Noctua NH-D14 will perform as good or better than H100 when setup properly, is quieter, will never fail you (maybe a fan after many years) and never leak.

H100 pump will be great for first year.. maybe. But as it get older it will flow less water and not cool as well. And being a closed loop there is no way to top up coolant.. and liquid cooling computers is like automobiles. They loose some and need topped up occasionally. To give you an idea, total cost of CLC costs less than many custom loop pumps.. and uses way less power to run.. 2.2w vs 10.0w & 18.0w for Laing DDC pumps & 23.0w for D5.

Many reviewers do not use fair comparison testing. They monitor room temp, mount CLC cooler drawing air into case (so it gets nothing but room temp air). But when they test air coolers they don't make sure the case air going into cooler is not heating up. Room temp and air temp going into cooler are different.. sometimes 10+c different... and if all coolers were tested based on the temp of air going into them the results would look much different.
 
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Megahelm is a good cooler. You will need fan for it. If you need fan/fans and short enough RAM/CPU clearance to fit them TY-147 are very good and only £5.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-104-TR
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I wish they still made the Venomous X :(.

Btw Doyll, the original Megahalem is lower down that list. The Super Mega is the one that produced better results thanks to its copper fins.
 
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I've been running at 4.2ghz for a while now and was thinking about pushing it up again to see if I can hit 4.5 or even 4.8ghz. I think if I separate the ram to the rest of the over clock it should be possible. The v core is 1.34v at the mo.
Do you think it's a good idea for daily overclock?
 
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I've been running at 4.2ghz for a while now and was thinking about pushing it up again to see if I can hit 4.5 or even 4.8ghz. I think if I separate the ram to the rest of the over clock it should be possible. The v core is 1.34v at the mo.
Do you think it's a good idea for daily overclock?
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You won't get that high an overclock, you will be very lucky if you get to 4.4Ghz with any kind of stability.

And really for gaming your 280X is going to be a bottleneck anyway in most games.

I ran an i5 760 with a 290X and with the 760 at 4.0Ghz that was enough to keep my 290X busy with even the 290X becoming the bottleneck in some of the things I ran.

Good luck though the i5 760 is a great processor and performs very well still.
 
Probably right, just fancied fiddling for the sake of it really. Do you think my 280x is a bottleneck, I only have 1 24" 1080p monitor
 
You won't get anywhere near 4.8Ghz. In fact i reckon you won't get any further at all. My old 760 did 3.8Ghz on stock volts but then took ever bigger jumps to get further. 4Ghz took 1.2875v and my max stable was 4.2Ghz with 1.375v. That took a lot of fiddling with board voltages too. Any further and it was like hitting a brick wall.
 
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