Cooler for Q6600

Jonesiani · 14 Feb 2010 at 22:27

Hi all, just a quick one.

I have a Q6600 that i bought a couple of years ago, and its currently being cooled by the Zalman Nvidia, CPU cooler thing that they released a couple of years ago also.
It's noisey.

Simple question, will this cpu (not overclocked) be stable with a large heatsink cooler without a fan?

If yes/no, any other recomendations?

Many thanks.

miniyazz · 14 Feb 2010 at 22:32

Try it and see.

You can probably undervolt it too if it's at stock clocks.

ViRuS2k · 14 Feb 2010 at 22:55

if you want silent operation with no fan at stock speeds on that cpu
you want the corsair h50-1 watercooler.

shadowsnypa1 · 14 Feb 2010 at 23:56

water cool if you want no sound, otherwise give it a go

Tiamat21 · 15 Feb 2010 at 00:15

Find out and try, if not, just shove a fan onto it afterwards.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-000-TL
that'll do the trick, but for the extra few bucks
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-003-TQ
that is awesome, and has a a rather silent fan in it which should be near silent.

Matty_Boy · 15 Feb 2010 at 07:51

I use a Corsair H50-1 on my Q6600, works very well and is very quiet.

Schizo · 15 Feb 2010 at 07:59

i also use the h50 on my q6600 and it's over clocked to 3.4 and my temps are good.

gurusan · 15 Feb 2010 at 08:45

:/ that screeny means nothing really as there's no load on the CPU!

Schizo · 15 Feb 2010 at 09:19

when it's on load it dosent go over 45c.

Alex R · 15 Feb 2010 at 11:23

I suppose it depends on the case ventilation? I did run my Q6600 at stock with a Noctua cooler with no fans on it for a bit in my Antec 900 case and it worked fine. However, I did have the fans on full power and I wouldn't say it was quiet.

I also have an H50 now on my Q6600 and it is very quiet and efficient. Since it uses the exhaust fan to cool the rad it takes one fan out of the equation (the air cooler fan) it is the same as no fans on an air cooler. The caveat on that being that some people have reported noisy pumps. Mine is inaudible.

Jonesiani · 15 Feb 2010 at 18:43

That corsair cooler looks very tempting.

Does anyone have experience of using that inside a Fractal design case?

Thanks for the suggestions.

C64 · 13 Jun 2010 at 14:03

schizo220168 said:
when it's on load it dosent go over 45c.

that must be a world record for a q6600 at 3.4 ghz then ? more likely it will hit 70c + on load under Intel burn test, I think you mean gaming load which can vary too depending on how cpu intensive the game is.