CPU colling

[Jobey292]

Hey, I have the Intel quad core Q6600, and i have a stock cooler which is not to good, I was wondering what cooler would be the best for me, i am also going to buy the EVGA Nforce triple sli motherboard, so it has to be able to fit in that.

 

[linktoinsanity]

This:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-017-AR&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395

or:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-002-NC&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395

or:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-030-ZA&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395.

Your stock cpu cooler should be ok for most uses though, probably fine up to 3Ghz. Are you overclocking? And what speed to?

 

[RJC]

Thermalright Ultra is good cooler.

 

[CaseyChaos]

+1 For the noctua, expensive but does do the job, would only see the benefits if you're clocking though, at stock it would be a waste of money.

Also what are your temperatures at the moment, you may be fine as you are.

 

[Jobey292]

My temps are

core #0: 38
core #1: 37
core #2: 34
core #3: 35

and i want to over clock to 3.2 or over.

 

[JonJ678]

Those look like idle temps, which don't really mean anything. What do you get when running prime 95 or intel burn test? Stop the test if it passes 70 degrees

 

[user1453]

I would go with a thermalright ultra 120 with a noctua p12, it may cost slightly more than the noctua cooler but the performance is slightly better aswell, and it may be possible to find the true for less money

 

[Jobey292]

I ran the intel burn test and got these results, i had to stop because temp was at 71
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IntelBurnTest v2.1
Created by AgentGOD
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Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Clock Speed: 2.39 GHz
Active Physical Cores: 4
Total System Memory: 2046 MB

Testing started on 29/05/2009 09:52:01
Time (s) Speed (GFlops) Result
[09:52:50] 42.444 21.0605 3.186578e-002
[09:53:40] 42.633 20.9672 3.186578e-002
[09:54:26] 39.966 22.3660 3.186578e-002
Testing ended on 29/05/2009 09:54:51
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