Adequate for Conroe??

Converge · 16 Jul 2006 at 21:25

Hey everyone, just a quicky

I've pre-ordered my Conroe E6600 system and i bought this to replace the stock CPU fan,

Thermaltake Blue Orb II Socket 939/754/775) CPU Cooler (CL-P0257) (HS-005-TT)

Good purchase?
Good for a slight overclocking?
Anyone got one?

Cheers for any responses!

Gashman · 16 Jul 2006 at 21:56

i have blue orb, i hope you realise just how immense they are, there fantastic coolers my CPU is 30*C idle at 2750Mhz, not sure about load, they have very large 120mm fan that spins at 1600RPM so you can't hear it, plus it glows cool bright blue, brigher the faster it spins, heres picture of mine on motherboard as a scale referance for you http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b24/gashinator_666/Pictures/HPIM0219.jpg also not it hangs very badly over ram sockets so i have to slightly modify it to allow my redline memory

Converge · 16 Jul 2006 at 22:16

geez it's close isnt it!

How did you modify it?

Thanks so far mate!

Arthalen · 16 Jul 2006 at 23:20

Crikey and I thought the Big Typhoon was big ? That sucker is low to the board indeed.

Gashman · 17 Jul 2006 at 13:48

had to use another piece of copper to give bit more clearance cause mushkin ram has bizarre shaped heatspeaders, and it wouldn't fit otherwise, its massive and weighs 1.7 pounds apparently :eek:

CPU at 33*C not cause its rather warm outside and in here, is it hard to change fans, cause i wouldn't mind a faster spinning 120mm fan to go in there

Converge · 18 Jul 2006 at 22:22

I was also thinking of putting this in my case

Vantec Spectrum Fan Card (FG-004-VA)

Is it a good idea, is it effective?

Any input would be great, thanks