Best cooler for Q6600 oc in a Sugo01?

malccy · 23 Aug 2007 at 18:49

hi

am planning on changing my present Asus N4L-VM DH Socket 479 Motherboard and T2400 cpu to a Q6600 GO stepping and a Gigabyte GA G33M-S2 board but would like to know the best cooler to use to get a cool overclock to about 3.2ghz (remembering the Sugo01 has psu sat above cpu area).

Many thanks

malccy

Kezmo · 23 Aug 2007 at 19:41

The new Zalman flower cooler (cnps8700)

Tute · 23 Aug 2007 at 19:54

Kezmo, you're good at modding ain't ya!

How about shoehorning some watercooling into the Sugo?

Kezmo · 23 Aug 2007 at 20:01

Tute said:
Kezmo, you're good at modding ain't ya!

How about shoehorning some watercooling into the Sugo?

lol

the new compact swiftech kit ocuk have just got in looks interesting, no need for watercooling here tho

malccy · 23 Aug 2007 at 20:43

Kezmo - I guess you had to remove your hard drive cage to fit that GTS; where and how did you place your hard drive?

I've thought myself about cooling with wc with cost and having to cut a blowhole its putting me off.

So the Zalman is best option?

Thanks for repluies.

Kezmo · 23 Aug 2007 at 20:51

Didnt have to move anything to fit the gts as its a standard size card, only the gtx's are stupidly long

malccy · 23 Aug 2007 at 20:52

Thanks - thats really handy to know.

Cheers for pic - everything at good temp? What cpu cooler you using?

lsg1r · 23 Aug 2007 at 22:07

malccy said:
hi

am planning on changing my present Asus N4L-VM DH Socket 479 Motherboard and T2400 cpu to a Q6600 GO stepping and a Gigabyte GA G33M-S2 board but would like to know the best cooler to use to get a cool overclock to about 3.2ghz (remembering the Sugo01 has psu sat above cpu area).

Many thanks

malccy

stock q6600 G0 with nt06 (using psu 120mm fan) hits around 65C. Not sure I'd want to overclock it with an initial temp like that. You could go watercooled if you want, a thermalright xp120 iirc can be modded to fit too but temps arent much different to nt06.

Kezmo · 23 Aug 2007 at 23:00

malccy said:
Thanks - thats really handy to know.

Cheers for pic - everything at good temp? What cpu cooler you using?

current temps( just come out of playing ETQW and pc's been on all night)

Coolers an old zalman flower, pretty much the same as the new 1 minus the heatpipes

malccy · 24 Aug 2007 at 07:48

Thanks Kezmo for showing that.

With the quad putting out more heat are you sure a Zalman flower will be enough to cool it to 3.2ghz - despite what lsg1r says?

lsg1r · 24 Aug 2007 at 12:17

malccy - dont forget you'll have a conflict of air with the zalman cooler if the psu you are using has the 120mm fan.

In all the tests/reviews and my own experiences having two fans in opposing directions do not work well in the sugo.

Kezmo · 24 Aug 2007 at 16:24

lsg1r said:
In all the tests/reviews and my own experiences having two fans in opposing directions do not work well in the sugo.

2 fans in opposing directions so close isnt ideal specialy in such a small case, but my idle on this build is around 37-38 (load 53-54) , my old fx62 and cnps800 zalman cooler was about the same temps, so dispite the conflict the coooling on the cpu is good.

malccy · 24 Aug 2007 at 22:10

Would fixing a small fan to the inside side panel next to cooler help much - if sucking air in?

Epyon · 30 Aug 2007 at 18:34

Kezmo, I'm interested in making a set up very much likes yours for uni but was wondering how heavy the actually beast is. I plan to carry it from my room back to my hom every few months (3+) and rather not brake my back.

Biffa · 30 Aug 2007 at 20:13

If you weren't using a Zalman with integrated fan you could always turn the fan around on the cooler to spin in the same direction as the PSU fan, then they wouldn't be in conflict.

I've got a Zalman CNPS8700 in a mATX case and it cools a G3 Q6600 at 3.2Ghz but not fantastically.

I think it hits 85 degrees under load on hot days, which it is at 24/7

I should try and reseat the cooler, I am sure I got better temps out of it before.

Kezmo · 30 Aug 2007 at 20:19

Epyon said:
Kezmo, I'm interested in making a set up very much likes yours for uni but was wondering how heavy the actually beast is. I plan to carry it from my room back to my hom every few months (3+) and rather not brake my back.

No idea on actual weight, its heavy but not to heavy to transport about, in a good holdall it'd be fine , iirc silverstone actually make a sugo bag.

Epyon · 30 Aug 2007 at 20:34

I'm torn between this and the SG03 both looks great, but I want to be able to take them to uni and back without breaking myself. Plus anyone tried the bag yet how good is it?

Tute · 30 Aug 2007 at 23:27

Epyon said:
I'm torn between this and the SG03 both looks great, but I want to be able to take them to uni and back without breaking myself. Plus anyone tried the bag yet how good is it?

\o.

It's fairly heavy when you have everything in it - i.e PC, cables, keyboard, mouse, etc. but I just carry mine down at the side.

Well worth the extra purchase IMO. Plus it fits both the SG01 and SG03.

WJA96 · 31 Aug 2007 at 06:03

The best cooler for the SG-01 is the NT-06 lite, with the Strider PSU, but if you can't have that then the radial coolers like the Zalmans and the Thermaltake Orbs are the next best bet with the Tagan through-flow PSU. but they quite often don't fit the P35 motherboards because of the fancy chipset coolers.

The G0 chips are running very cool, even when highly overclocked, I'd be very tempted to try it with the NT-06 lite.

Biffa · 31 Aug 2007 at 12:20

Why is the strider the best PSU?

Compared to say a Corsair modular 520 or 620W PSU?