** Alpenföhn Olymp Twin Tower High Performance CPU Cooler **
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I am only posting this as a heads up, as I recently bought the I3 bundle that came with the brocken 2. It was also 165mm including fan. No chance in my P182. Had to swap the fan for a 120mm.
165mm is borderline for some towers.
It never even occurred to me to check the height of the cooler. The P182 is hardly a small case.
165mm is borderline for some towers.
It never even occurred to me to check the height of the cooler. The P182 is hardly a small case.
Having to use a 120mm fan sounds like a RAM clearance problem rather than a CPU clearance problem. Most RAM out there has tall 'heat spreaders' that serve no practical purpose. It is just a marketing thing. Modern RAM does not need heat sinks.I am only posting this as a heads up, as I recently bought the I3 bundle that came with the brocken 2. It was also 165mm including fan. No chance in my P182. Had to swap the fan for a 120mm.
165mm is borderline for some towers.
It never even occurred to me to check the height of the cooler. The P182 is hardly a small case.
I don't know what the P182 CPU clearance actually is, but a quick Google came up with 160mm.
While 165mm CPU clearance cases are common, so are cases with 170mm CPU clearance and up, especially newer cases.
I just installed one of these bad boys yesterday to replace a very old Acrtic Freezer Pro 7 which was (unsurprisingly) completely incapable of keeping an overclocked Xeon X5650 at sensible temperatures.
Very pleased with the results. At a moderate overclock of 3.5Ghz with the Freezer 7 temps would hit 90 degrees very quickly under realbench and I would have to abort before I started to cook the Xeon. With the Olymp in place it now barely hits 60 degrees with the overclock increased to 4Ghz
That's with only the middle fan in place on the Olymp. There are no clearance issues at all with my Corsair Vengeance high-profile RAM for the heatsink itself, but with the front fan raised up over the RAM it's too tall to fit the side won't go back on my case (even though it's a fairly monstrous Coolermaster Cosmos).
I may stick a slightly smaller fan on the front at some point, but I'm not even sure it's necessary with the temps I'm seeing. I think another intake on the front of the case itself would probably make more difference.
So, I'd highly recommend the Olymp - especially after the recent price drop.
Very pleased with the results. At a moderate overclock of 3.5Ghz with the Freezer 7 temps would hit 90 degrees very quickly under realbench and I would have to abort before I started to cook the Xeon. With the Olymp in place it now barely hits 60 degrees with the overclock increased to 4Ghz
That's with only the middle fan in place on the Olymp. There are no clearance issues at all with my Corsair Vengeance high-profile RAM for the heatsink itself, but with the front fan raised up over the RAM it's too tall to fit the side won't go back on my case (even though it's a fairly monstrous Coolermaster Cosmos).
I may stick a slightly smaller fan on the front at some point, but I'm not even sure it's necessary with the temps I'm seeing. I think another intake on the front of the case itself would probably make more difference.
So, I'd highly recommend the Olymp - especially after the recent price drop.
You could perhaps mount the second fan on the rear of the cooler. Ive seen this done on the k2, though never tried it myself.
What setter said. I have not used the Olymp, but Alpenfohn website shows the use of rubber spacer strips on back of back fin pack for pull / pull fan installation.
That is all the info I've seen about fan mounting. Sorry I can't give any more details, but haven't been able to get my hands on an Olymp to test and evaluate.
That is all the info I've seen about fan mounting. Sorry I can't give any more details, but haven't been able to get my hands on an Olymp to test and evaluate.
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I managed to mount both my fans at the same height, so if the middle one fits you should be able to make the outer one fit (unless there isn't an even amount of space in your Cosmos case). I've also mounted my outer fan for pull configuration and can confirm it fits and performs just as well as push.