CPU Cooler can't decide

can someone tell me the dimensions of the tuniq and themalright heatsink?

i currently have a zalman 9500 in my case and still have roughly 2" before it touches the side of my case, is it bigger than that?
 
OSB said:
To answer your questions Mansize_tissue:

Yes you can use two fans on the Ultra 120 though i don't think it comes with enough retention clips to do it properly see here: http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/thermalright_ultra_120/ for details (they used a rubber band) Tis a very good review of the 120.
That review also contains a list of all the kit which comes with the cooler including backplates.

OSB
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It comes with 2 clips, right? I've seen this sort of thing done before, like with the Scythe Infinity, and one clip is enough to support a single fan (so it hangs from the top of the cooler). Then, you could use one clip on either side of the heatsink: allowing 2 fans to be mounted. Thank you for the link, by the way, i am reading the review now. ;)
 
Mansize_tissue said:
The motherboard can bend, due to the force the backplate is exerting onto the motherboard.
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Then yours is different to mine. The only point of contact on mine is the little square in the middle, directly under the CPU socket. The arms bend away from the motherboard at that point, so on mine there is clear air between the motherboard and the arms, even with the cooler securely screwed home. On mine you cannot screw the cooler down so hard as to bend the arms because the threads are only long enough to fill the "tower" of the female threaded section. My motherboard is as flat as a pancake. No bend.

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This isn't the best picture in the world, but you can see the contact patch on the backplate. That's the only point of contact underneath. The screws are only long enough to fill the towers on the end of the arms so the only tension expressed is between the bottom of the CPU cooler and the bottom of the CPU socket, sandwiching the CPU into the cooler with excellent results.

As I say, yours must be different, although I'm not sure you're using one currently?
 
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WJA96 said:
Then yours is different to mine. The only point of contact on mine is the little square in the middle, directly under the CPU socket. The arms bend away from the motherboard at that point, so on mine there is clear air between the motherboard and the arms, even with the cooler securely screwed home. On mine you cannot screw the cooler down so hard as to bend the arms because the threads are only long enough to fill the "tower" of the female threaded section. My motherboard is as flat as a pancake. No bend.
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Oh, in that case then you're right, the motherboard won't bend. Thank you for clarifying that, i didn't know the arms of the backplate weren't in contact with the back of the motherboard: that's good to know, nevertheless. So absolutely no strain is put on the motherboard with this mounting system, then- 'sounds good enough to me!
 
I think this is pretty new as they're rolling it out across all their LGA775 coolers. It's by far the best system I've seen.
 
Isn't there an extreme version of the XP-120 coming soon, with 6 heatpipes?

I am currently looking into building a new PC for the first time in ages and the cooler is the thing that is causing me most headaches as to what to buy.

However as budget isn't the main issue the XP-120 with a Scythe S-Flex looks the best option to me based on the footprint of the cooler in the case and keeping memory slots etc clear
 
The review of the Ultra 120 posted here makes it pretty clear its a straight battle between the 120 and the Noctua, i'd go for one of them, temps are excellent as well.
 
orbit said:
Isn't there an extreme version of the XP-120 coming soon, with 6 heatpipes?
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Yes.

orbit said:
However as budget isn't the main issue the XP-120 with a Scythe S-Flex looks the best option to me based on the footprint of the cooler in the case and keeping memory slots etc clear
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Surely that depends on the case, motherboard and the disposition of the fans around the cooler?
 
WJA96 said:
Surely that depends on the case, motherboard and the disposition of the fans around the cooler?
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Disposition of the fans... :confused:
What, so the footprint of the XP-120 is dependant on the mood of the fans?

The main thing which will affect the clearance of DIMM slots would be the form-factor of the motherboard. With most ATX motherboards the XP-120 seems like a very good option to keep the memory slots clear.

I thought Thermalright were going to release an extreme version of their Ultra-120 cooler; is the same happening for the XP-120, too?
 
buy a zalman, i have the 9700 on my quad and it runs at 20c external and about 45c average on the cores, at 1600rpm and under real life load (not orthos or whatever) its (so far) maxed at 30c ext. and 50av core at 2800rpm, and is very quiet!!!!!!
 
Ice Tea said:
I'd wait a couple of weeks for the reviews as the new Thermalright IFX-14 is due out as it was designed for Quad chips so it should beat all current coolers on a dual core.

http://www.thermalright.com/a_page/main_product_ifx14.htm

140mm fans

8mm pipes

Backside CPU cooler
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I agree. Does anybody know exactly when the UK release date is? Have there been any benchmarks for it yet?

Dan2kx, what motherboard are you using in your setup?
 
Mansize_tissue said:
Disposition of the fans... :confused:
What, so the footprint of the XP-120 is dependant on the mood of the fans?
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Disposition (Dis`po*si"tion) (?), n.
[F. disposition, dispositio, fr. disponere to dispose; dis- + ponere to place. See Position, and cf. Dispone.]

1. The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will. "Who have received the law by the disposition of angels." Acts vii. 53. "The disposition of the work, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the whole may be of a piece."
2. The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.
3. Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.
4. Conscious inclination; propension or propensity. "How stands your disposition to be married?"
5. Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind. "A man of turbulent disposition."

You must be VERY contented.
 
How many of you have owned the 7/tuniq/this other one mentioned?
What, realistically, are the difference in load temps on the same board?

Good intentions aside, we need hard facts not 'this one is bigger and therefore must be better' although I would probably agree with that school of thought :)
 
Mansize_tissue said:
You must be taking this too seriously. "Disposition" is rarely used to when describing the location of something, anyway, even if it is loosely defined in this way.
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There is nothing loose about my use of language. Disposition is commonly used in discussions about strategic placement - the disposition of troops and it was quite correct of me to use it in the original context. You took a cheap shot and all you did was demonstrate your own ignorance.
 
WJA96 said:
There is nothing loose about my use of language. Disposition is commonly used in discussions about strategic placement - the disposition of troops and it was quite correct of me to use it in the original context. You took a cheap shot and all you did was demonstrate your own ignorance.
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Quoted for truth.

Lads, stop arguing, both big wayne and wja know what they're talking about (well, except the coke can thing :p!!).

The ultra 120 atm is one of the top HSF's, in the same league as coolers like the noctua and ninja to name a few.They all seem to give the same performance, plus or minus a couple of degrees. I would only use an ultra 120 or the noctua though, as the ninja has had loads of problems with mounting on a lot of 775 boards due to a lack of pressure on the cpu unless it's modded, not to mention being hard to fit on a lot of 775 boards without pushing capacitors.

Zalman's are incredibly well made heatsinks...they just use shocking fans. The last few models have sounded like hurricanes...and they're meant to be a company developing quiet gear :confused: ).

Noctua on the other hand, just scream quality in every aspect. Their attention to detail is amazing, from silicon strips along the heatsink to reduce any vibration from the fan to be transferred to the heatsink, to their ridge filled base on the HS (aparantly they've done huge amounts of testing and they found their bases which have tiny microscopic ridges gives better performance than completley lapped bases, due to thermal paste filling the microscopic gaps better, giving less thermal resistance). The S12 fans are also meant to be some of the best fans as far as sound is concerned (the top recommended fan from the boys over at spcr).

Thermalright don't need any introduction, they've been making the best heatsinks for god knows how long, and will keep on doing so by the way it looks. The ultra 120 is an upgrade from the rest of the older thermalrights to the tower design.
 
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