Best 775 Cooler? All your suggestions please...

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mishima

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Hi,

As mentioned here I'm going to replace my stock E6600 cooler as its just too noisy! Below are my requirements:
  • £30-£40 (£40 absolute MAX!) [EDITED]
  • Very quiet
  • Reliable
  • Reasonable cooling

As I mentioned in the list, I would like reasonable cooling - I do not overclock. I don't intend to so, something that will keep my chip nice and cool but sound is more important here!

Please could you spec me a 775 cooler?
 
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mishima said:
Hi,

As mentioned here I'm going to replace my stock E6600 cooler as its just too noisy! Below are my requirements:
  • £20-£30 (£30 absolute MAX)
  • Very quiet
  • Reliable
  • Reasonable cooling

As I mentioned in the list, I would like reasonable cooling - I do not overclock. I don't intend to so, something that will keep my chip nice and cool but sound is more important here!

Please could you spec me a 775 cooler?
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this is one of the best if not the best Artic Cooling freezer 7 good price too from OCUK ,i,m going to order on in a few weeks time . ;)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-017-AR
 
Can't go wrong with the Freezer 7 Pro for your job... But, the Titan Vanessa-L isn't much more expensive, and with its larger fan and sink could keep things as cool with lower speeds, in other words, quieter. I upgraded from the Freezer 7 to the Titan and before I overclocked, there was a noticable difference in volume, the Titan barely ticked over no matter what the system was doing. V good. But it's physically big, not for the small cases.
 
ACF 7 pro is gonna be a lottery as to how quiet it is (out of the 4 I've handled 1 is very quiet the other 3 varying from moderately quiet to hurricane loud - this isn't just due to different fan speeds), if your not overclocking you should be able to limit it to lowest fan speed and still get great temps without much noise... if your lucky you'll get a quiet one. I'd still highly reccomend the ACF 7 pro however.
 
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If you are not overclocking then have a look at the Thermalright HR-01-775.

http://www.thermalright.com/a_page/main_product_hr01_775.htm

It is completely passive (you can't get quieter than that) and is certified fine with all Core2Duo's even the X6800. Be advised, it is very large so just check you have 20cm of headroom over the CPU socket before you order.

And I know it pushes you a little over budget, but I would invest in the LGA775 Screw Down Conversion kit as it does make any Thermalright cooler significantly more securely mounted to the board.
 
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mishima said:
£20-£30 (£30 absolute MAX)
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Budgets are meant to be broken! :D

Don't forget to put a price on your time, how much of a pain would it be to spend a few evenings faffing around trying to get your bargain cooler to work as u expected?

I spent several hours trying to get my budget cooler to cool properly, in the end I gave up and bought a more expensive model which works as expected.

So in the end I spent about 3x what I originally intended too and wasted hours and hours . . . If I had gone for something a bit more decent from the start my budget would have been 2x and I wouldn't have wasted anytime.

In short, by trying to save a small sum of money I ended up spending a lot more, the saying goes 'Buy Cheap, Buy Dear'

Good luck!
 
Big.Wayne said:
...in the end I gave up and bought a more expensive model which works as expected.
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I agree wholeheatedly with Big.Wayne's post and I have quoted what I think this is the really important thing. The Expectation. If someone recommends you a 'quiet, high performance' cooler you need to be sure that their expectations are the same as yours.

What Big.Wayne says about quality is another aspect that shouldn't be overlooked. CPU coolers that are knocked out in a Far-Eastern factory are unlikely to be subjected to the sort of rigorous testing that many people expect of a 'quality' product. Zalman are good, Thermalright are good, but you pay for it. Arctic Cooling make a good product, but several people have posted recently that the fans aren't that quiet anymore and even that the coolers are not functioning as the reviews and other users experiences would suggest they should. Caveat emptor.
 
I'm not that impressed with my Freezer 7 Pro - the temps are OK but nothing to shout about. Also the fan is a bit noisy on full blast (although bearable).

I'll be switching to a Tuniq Tower soon, personally.
 
Thanks for all your responses. I will increase my budget then based on WJ and Wayne have said, it's similar with other components most notably PSUs when you buy something cheap, you get a cheap product!

Some of you have suggested the vanessa and thermalright. Which are heatsinks, will I need to fit a fan with those also?

I have quite good airflow, just fitted these ambers:

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Big.Wayne said:
Oh Latin on an overclocking forum . . . cool! :)
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And did you notice it was italicised correctly too?

Is est tantum callidus ut adsuesco assuesco rectus It's only clever when it's used correctly.
 
mishima said:
Some of you have suggested the vanessa and thermalright. Which are heatsinks, will I need to fit a fan with those also?
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You don't need a fan with the HR-01-775 unless you are overclocking.
 
Now you have your budget up at £40, IMO you should get a Tuniq Tower :) It looks like it should fit. If you want it running on full but dont want so much noise (apparently the Tuniq gets a little noisy on full), you can always swap the fan in it for something quieter.

I think the Tuniq is the best performer at the mo.
 
I have checked and the Tuniq does fit my motherboard. Read some good reviews on that cooler also...

So its a toss up between:

Tuniq 120
Thermalright HR-01
Vanessa

I notice the Thermalright Ultra-120 is a couple of quid more than the HR-01 and tuniq, how does that square up?
 
I have the tuniq and its excellent, i can run the fan on low on my e6600 @ 3.2ghz and still get temps around the 36-38 degree mark. On low the fan is practically inaudiable :)
 
mishima said:
So its a toss up between:

Tuniq 120
Thermalright HR-01
Vanessa

I notice the Thermalright Ultra-120 is a couple of quid more than the HR-01 and tuniq, how does that square up?
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It fairs very well! :)

I would pass on the Thermalright HR-01 at the moment unless your gonna set it up properly with the fan-duct and a rear 120mm fan, also it comes as standard with the LGA775 peg system which I am not a fan off, there is the option of getting a proper mounting system for the Thermalright HR-01 but its very hard to buy in the Uk at the moment . .

Choose between the Tuniq or the Ultra-120, If I had a removable motherboard tray I would have probably gone for the Tuniq but I settled for the less bulky 120 (see my thread for results)

Between the Tuniq or the Ultra 120 u cant lose, they both come with their own backplate and spring loaded screw mounting system, its what u want! :cool:
 
Big.Wayne said:
It fairs very well! :)

I would pass on the Thermalright HR-01 at the moment unless your gonna set it up properly with the fan-duct and a rear 120mm fan
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The fan duct and fan are only required if you are overclocking. This cooler was designed to passively cool the old Intel P4 Prescott processors. It easily cools a stock Core2Duo. It has 4 dual-heatpipes rather than 3 on the Ultra-120 and the heat sink itself is slotted to allow air to flow through it more easily. The Ultra-120 requires a fan because of it's solid wing design and is designed for performance cooling rather than silence. And the additional fan cost on the Ultra-120 means you need to add at least another £10 to the price for a quiet fan.

Big.Wayne said:
also it comes as standard with the LGA775 peg system which I am not a fan off, there is the option of getting a proper mounting system for the Thermalright HR-01 but its very hard to buy in the Uk at the moment . .
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I agree the screw-down mounting is much better, but I have no trouble getting hold of any Thermalright parts. The LGA-775 adapter is in stock at at least 3 places with a fairly consistent retail price of £4.50. OcUK don't stock the HR-01-775 anyway, so you will need to go elsewhere if you decide to go down that route.
 
That peg system you mentioned Wayne on the HR-01 is that silly plastic plug in screw system that comes also with the stock intel fans? I had major problems with getting my stock intel cooler on in the first place.

So the Tuniq and Ultra-120 don't use that system?

I don't really want to buy an additional fan for a cooler because:

1. It's going to be quieter.
2. Adds more £££ to my budget.

Decisions, decisions! :(

OcUK don't stock the HR-01-775 anyway, so you will need to go elsewhere if you decide to go down that route.
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Just noticed that, that wasn't for 775!!
 
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