Best Air cooling heatsink & Fan for o/c'ing Conroe Extreme?

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What would you guys recommend as the best air cooling heatsink/fan for o/c'ing the Conroe Extreme, I was thinking of getting ThermalRight SI-120 and using it with a 120mm Panaflo @ 12v, I'm looking at getting the Conroe extreme to run @ 3.6,

Shame OcUK does'nt stock the LGA775 RM adapter for the Thermalright SI-120, as 775 boards are going to become quite popular now and you need the adapter otherwise it won't fit.
 
lowrider007 said:
Shame OcUK does'nt stock the LGA775 RM adapter for the Thermalright SI-120, as 775 boards are going to become quite popular now and you need the adapter otherwise it won't fit.
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Suggest it in the product suggestions forum.
 
lowrider007 said:
What would you guys recommend as the best air cooling heatsink/fan for o/c'ing the Conroe Extreme, I was thinking of getting ThermalRight SI-120 and using it with a 120mm Panaflo @ 12v, I'm looking at getting the Conroe extreme to run @ 3.6,
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What are you using now? Anything that will cool the existing chips will have an easier time with Conroe. The Preslers (65nm) are running at about 10-20C less than the equivalent Smithfields (90nm) and I think the existing crop of coolers is plenty good enough.

I suspect the problem won't be cooling the processor, but the PWM controller. It is on every current Intel chipset board I've seen and I cannot see any reason why that will change with the Conroe compatible 975/965 chipsets as they have additional PWM controllers for the case fan headers.
 
WJA96 said:
What are you using now? Anything that will cool the existing chips will have an easier time with Conroe. The Preslers (65nm) are running at about 10-20C less than the equivalent Smithfields (90nm) and I think the existing crop of coolers is plenty good enough.
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I'm using the old xp-120 with a 120x38mm panaflo @ 12v, the thing is tho I'm gonna have to get a new heatsink/fan anyway as I've allready promised my old ram, cpu, m/b & xp-120 to a friend, and also I nearly broke my currunt m/b installing the xp-120 onto it, the clips are a real pain in the bum.

The Tuniq tower 120 looks really intresting, the only thing is the fan that comes with the tower 120 looks a bit loud, after having a good read the Scythe Ninja and a panaflo looks the best bet for me so far, Ive just read a review where they ran a p4 prescott @ 3.8 using this heatsink with no fan :eek: , that was in a Antec P180 case so the 2 rear 120mm fans helped a lot.
 
clv101 said:
What the quietest, decent performance socket 775 heatsink/fan?
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Like I said above the Scythe Ninja looks the best bet, I'm gonna pair it with a Panaflo RB-4710JKL 120x25mm Fan, @ 7v it's rated at 65cfm (27dB), then if I really want to turn up the heat I can run that fan @ 12v which gives it a massive 115cfm (41dB), ok, @ 12v it's not exactly quite but for 115cfm 41dB is really not that bad compared to delta fans,

If your not looking to o/c then I would pair the Scythe Ninja with maybie a Scythe S-FLEX 1200RPM Ultra Quiet 120mm
 
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