Cooling advise for ITX motherboard

fmma

fmma

fmma

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I will move abroad and would like to take a desktop with me. I'm in the process of planning my new build and would appreciate some advise about the cpu cooler which would make sense for the following build:

Board:
Zotac Z68ITX-A-E Intel Z68

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-010-ZT&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2071

CPU:
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-368-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1275

Case:
Silverstone Sugo SG06B Mini ITX Case

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-070-SV&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=1092

I thinking about the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 but not sure if this would fit

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-035-AR

As an alternative, I could by the retail cpu with the stock cooler, but I do not know how noisy the fan (the AMD is very)

I'm not planning to overclock
Thanks for looking at my proposed build

Frank

PS: Of course I would also appreciate any other comment regarding the build
 
The retail intel coolers are damn silent. You will not even hear it! Seriously. I have used half a dozen and they have all been the same.
 
betaspin said:
The stock i5-2500k cooler does not have sufficient cooling capacity for anything beyond basic web browsing and word processing. A good low-height cooler that will fit in the SG06 and is the big Scythe Shuriken http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-026-SY.
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LOL what a load of rubbish.. I suppose the machines i build that are used for CAD modeling, Digital Content creation etc are about to blow up then as they use the stock cooler that intel provides.

A stock cooler is just that, will be perfectly adequet for use on a stock cpu under any circumstances. I could build a workstation with a stock cooler and stick it in my server room running prime constantly and there would be no issues whatsoever..
 
Skyline said:
LOL what a load of rubbish.. I suppose the machines i build that are used for CAD modeling, Digital Content creation etc are about to blow up then as they use the stock cooler that intel provides.

A stock cooler is just that, will be perfectly adequet for use on a stock cpu under any circumstances. I could build a workstation with a stock cooler and stick it in my server room running prime constantly and there would be no issues whatsoever..
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My last experience with a stock Intel cooler was on a stock i7-870. IntelBurnTest with a 6Gb dataset quickly brought the core temperatures up to 90 deg C and I stopped it immediately. I have now stopped doing experiments of this type---I run large, mainly linear algebra, codes under Ubuntu which at times load the cpu to the same extent as IBT, and can be running for days, even weeks, and try to maintain core temperatures under 70 deg. Alas, this proves impossible with the stock Intel coolers.
 
The Arctic Freezer 7 will not fit in the Sugo SG06. The cooler height limitation, if I remember correctly, was 78mm, and it is necessary to leave a bit of clearance b/n it and the PSU, so in real terms it is even less.
 
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