Can anyone recommend a good low profile, silent, air cooler for a HTPC

Junk

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I'm in a Silverstine MLOI case, so must be less than 90mm.

being a watercooler, i know nothing of air coolers!

looking for one that run's silently. it's to cool a stock E4500 on an asus P5E-VM HDMI
 
You also need to make sure the the cooler doesn't overhang the top of the board by more that a few millimetres - the zalman flower will.

Also the milo also has only ~80mm clearance (after standoffs and mobo are subtracted)

Might need someting like this

Edit: removed mistake
 
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shadowscotland said:
You also need to make sure the the cooler doesn't overhang the top of the board by more that a few millimetres - the zalman flower will.

Also the milo also has only ~80mm clearance (after standoffs and mobo are subtracted)

Might need someting like this or this both have good user reviews, but the Zalman is much better if you have the budget
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Going by the fact that you said the Milo only has around 80mm space, the later one you linked to would be too tall surely? It has a 92mm fan, and the specs say it's over 130mm tall!
 
Did you decide which low profile cooler to get Junk?

I have been looking around and there isn't a massive selection of dwarf coolers is there?

Not seen anything that looks like it will be a major improvement over the stock cooler yet?
 
I think zalman are the way to go on this one. I don't think I've found another company that integrated the fan into the sink.

The CNPS8700 has great reviews. Consider swapping the fan if you fancy yourself as a bit of a modder as it's considered to be a bit loud and lets the sink down a bit.
 
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