Arctic Freezer 7 or Akasa AK-960E?

[dagwoood]

Looking to replace the stock Intel cooler on my E6600 and naturally I thought about getting an Arctic Freezer 7, but I've read that it can be hit and miss sometimes whether they'll do the job effectively if you have a C2D with a curved IHS.

Then I came across the Akasa AK-960E which looks good on paper, so I wandered whether to get one of these instead.

Any thoughts on this anyone?

 

[dagwoood]

it might be noisy with all thouse 3000 R.P.M. !
if ya got money go for Titan Amanda http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-000-TI

I am very disapointed with the noise i get from Artic Freezer 7 Pro ,on 2700-mann noise of level is realy anoying! But dont get me wrong ,couse for the price u get it ,it keeps cpu temps realy good!

R.P.M. isn't a problem as I'd use SpeedFan to keep the noise down. As to the Titan Amanda(you linked to the AMD version by the way )it's way out of my price range I'm afraid

I can't recommend the arctic freezer 7 pro, I have re-seated mine three times and the bloomin thing won't cool my stock e6300 properly, no way can I overclock with these temps.

Your temps don't look bad to me The stock cooler's giving me core temps of mid 40's at idle and it's hit the low 70's under full load(TAT test).


Thanks for the input though guys

 

[dagwoood]

I picked up an Akasa 955 cooler from the local comp tech shop. This does the job for my E6300 perfectly fine. Maybe a tad noisy but it's easy to install and doesn't take up the entire case.

I get around 37C on stock at idle. Just under 50C full load on stock. When I push it up to 2.1Ghz which is as far as I can go with this motherboard then it gets up to around 52-53 at full load.

....Very happy with this cooler.

Thanks for that Darg, at least I know the lower spec 955 is effective at cooling, so I might take a chance on the AK-960E.

Cheers, dagwoood.