Hi Everyone
Will receive my Q9550 tomorrow and my stock cooler fan for the current E6550 is a bit loud even running it at 80% as it's getting on a bit.
I would like a replacement to fit the Q9550 just to make it really quiet, not really overclocking it at the minute.
As the P5NE-32 SLI MoBo has copper heat pipes around the CPU to keep the chipset cool I feel that they can only take advantage of the style of the stock cooler fan, in other words the air is directed on to the copper fins from the CPU heatsink fan but the likes of the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro dont blow any air on the fins. Well thats what I think could be wrong !
So I am looking for something around the £25 mark if possible and similar design to the stock FAN but much quieter if possible.
I found this would it be suitable
http://www.zalman.com/eng/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=311
Will receive my Q9550 tomorrow and my stock cooler fan for the current E6550 is a bit loud even running it at 80% as it's getting on a bit.
I would like a replacement to fit the Q9550 just to make it really quiet, not really overclocking it at the minute.
As the P5NE-32 SLI MoBo has copper heat pipes around the CPU to keep the chipset cool I feel that they can only take advantage of the style of the stock cooler fan, in other words the air is directed on to the copper fins from the CPU heatsink fan but the likes of the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro dont blow any air on the fins. Well thats what I think could be wrong !
So I am looking for something around the £25 mark if possible and similar design to the stock FAN but much quieter if possible.
I found this would it be suitable
http://www.zalman.com/eng/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=311
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