It's that time of the year (CPU cooler upgrade)

Stas823 · 1 Dec 2012 at 18:03

Hello
I am looking for a new air cooler to treat myself for new year and paste with it too
At the moment I have coolermastet v6gt with 2 stock fans and mx 4 paste that I bought last year
Anything new I can get for am3+ socket that's worth an upgrade (up to £100) :eek:

Thanks

Stas823 · 1 Dec 2012 at 18:05

No water cooling might I add please

doyll · 1 Dec 2012 at 23:36

The best coolers at the moment are Thermalright Silver Arrow SB-E Extreme, Silver Arrow SB-E and Phanteks PH-TC14PE pretty much in that order with about 6c between Silver Arrow SB-E Extreme and Silver Arrow SB-E and only a degree or 2 between Silver Arrow SB-E and Phanteks. Both cooler are about same. The fans make the difference. There are more coolers too, and if with the right fans they will perform about the same.

smilertoo · 2 Dec 2012 at 00:17

I'm pretty happy with the phantek, i got it last week.

doyll · 2 Dec 2012 at 01:34

smilertoo said:
I'm pretty happy with the phantek, i got it last week.

Only pretty happy?

I'm very happy with mine. Never used the stock fans. Should sell them. I put TY-140 (600-1300rpm) fans on first, than changed to TY-143 600-2500rpm) fans but have never used the extra 1200rpm. On the 920 @ 68c they ran 1300rpm but now with 980 @ 50c they run 1050rpm.

Picked up a Cogage Arrow (aka Silver Arrow) a couple weeks ago but haven't tried it yet. Will be interesting to see how it compares.

smilertoo · 2 Dec 2012 at 02:04

I'd like a 6core to replace my i920 but nowhere to get them now, and the socket seems to be discontinued so i wouldn't want to pay too much for one.

doyll · 2 Dec 2012 at 02:23

Gulftown are hard to find and kinda expensive. And most software cannot utilize 6 cores. The only way I use it to potential is by running 2 or 3 encoding operations at the same time. At 3.5GHz running IBT at max with Phanteks cooler max temp is 48c at 800rpm.

Stas823 · 3 Dec 2012 at 01:04

doyll said:
The best coolers at the moment are Thermalright Silver Arrow SB-E Extreme, Silver Arrow SB-E and Phanteks PH-TC14PE pretty much in that order with about 6c between Silver Arrow SB-E Extreme and Silver Arrow SB-E and only a degree or 2 between Silver Arrow SB-E and Phanteks. Both cooler are about same. The fans make the difference. There are more coolers too, and if with the right fans they will perform about the same.

So which fans would be the best option if I'm planning to use them @stock or mild oc with least amount of noise

Kaapstad · 3 Dec 2012 at 04:49

doyll said:
Gulftown are hard to find and kinda expensive. And most software cannot utilize 6 cores. The only way I use it to potential is by running 2 or 3 encoding operations at the same time. At 3.5GHz running IBT at max with Phanteks cooler max temp is 48c at 800rpm.

I love my i7 980, it overclocks like a beast 4.6ghz with a rubbish corsair H70 on it and the IMC can go well over 2300mhz. At some point Im going to put a proper watercooled loop on it and then really go for it.

doyll · 3 Dec 2012 at 10:16

Stas823 said:
So which fans would be the best option if I'm planning to use them @stock or mild oc with least amount of noise

Thermalright sell 3 varients of Silver Arrow SB-E; standard has TY-141/150 fans, special edition has TY-145 fans (black/white TY-141 fans) and Extreme has TY-143 fans. TY-141/145/150 all use same fan blade design and bearings. TY-143 uses same bearings with older TY-140 blade design. TY-140 and TY-141/145 have same specs for dBA, cfm and static pressure. TY-143 has higher dBA, cfm and static pressure because it is 2500rpm max instead of 1300rpm max. But TY-141 and TY-143 are the same at 1300rpm.

I think the SA SB-E Extreme with 2x TY-143 fans because it cools the same and is no louder than SA SB-E if you keep the fans below 1300rpm. It only gets louder if you run the fans faster. Because the fans are PWM it's easy to control with most motherboards using the CPU fan PWM socket. It comes with a PWM Y splitter but as they are rated .6amp each I suggest using a PWM splitter with molex/sata power connection. Doing this uses motherboard for PWM to coltrol fans but powers them directly from PSU.

http://www.akasa.com.tw/update.php?...es&type_sub=Fan Cable Adapters&model=AK-CB002