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good cooler for q6600

I personally dont think the Arctic 7 would be up to the job, have a Tuniq tower myself, a PITA to put on but a great cooler.
 
whats sorta the process of installing the tuniq tower.

my first eva build was a athlon 2800xp barton with stock heatsink and i nicely sliced the board with a flat head screw driver as it slipped out.
 
i second the tuniq tower 120 i bought and fitted mine last week
first you stick a backing plate to the underneath of the mobo
then place the cooler over the cpu (after applying thermal paste)
use the thumb type screws to screw the holes were the standard cooler mounts, these will go through and screw into the backing plate you just stuck on
then keep going till they are tight
then just screw the top down which holds the 120mm fan within the cooler

it aint that difficult
 
Don't stick the backplate on with its supplied sticker use masking tape to secure it in place then put the heatsink on.Do it with the board on a flat soft surface makes it easy.
 
hmmm well the tower sounds pretty good then, looks massive. well i'll add it to the list.

so i take it there is sum protection on the underside of the board where the backing plate sits on?

with the tuniq tower does it get full of dust inside the fins and stuff? easy to clean?

cheers
 
I had a tough time fitting it, but it is good, and the fan is in the middle of the fins and can be removed. so easy to clean and it fits perfectly in the eclipse 62.
 
C64 said:
Don't stick the backplate on with its supplied sticker use masking tape to secure it in place then put the heatsink on.Do it with the board on a flat soft surface makes it easy.
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c64 is the supplied sticker that you get with it the kind that when you have stuck it down you cant get it of m8 if its not in line cheers, as mines coming tomorrow and if its better to use masking tape then will do m8
 
no, you can move it once the sticker is on. It's not that strong.

i made the choice to go with the tuniq as performance levels between the two coolers is minimal. and the tuniq is cheaper and comes with a fan.
 
I use a thermalright ultra 120 extreme with 2 sharkoon silent eagles fitted.

Chip is a warm B3 overclocked to 3ghz. It sits at 40c idle and rises to nearly 70c under 100% TAT load.

Watercooling next i feel! :rolleyes:

gt
 
Sorry for the hi-jack but what would be a good cpu cooler for the thermaltake lanbox + q6600?

sorry again!
 
gt_junkie said:
I use a thermalright ultra 120 extreme with 2 sharkoon silent eagles fitted.

Chip is a warm B3 overclocked to 3ghz. It sits at 40c idle and rises to nearly 70c under 100% TAT load.

Watercooling next i feel! :rolleyes:

gt
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ATM Ive got 1 Sharkoon on the same cooler as you on my E6600. What made you get 2 fans? Have you tried it with 1 fan and if so any temp. differences?
 
Hank_Marvin said:
ok thanks, im split between the tuniq tower and the Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme now.
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If you want to use the thermalright ultra you are more then likely going to need to lap it to get the full potential out of it.

Out of the box the difference between the turniq tower and the thermalright is only a few degrees and i have seen this in benchmarks. But if you lap the thermalright you will see a bigger difference of probably around 5 degrees. Otherwize its only 1/2 degrees.

By the way to lap a heat sink means to sand down the bottem of it as the thermalights oftern do not have flat surfaces which doesn't give as gooder contact with the cpu as it could and therefore doesn't cool to its potential.
 
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