need a CPU cooler

[Nemesis379]

i need a good and decent CPU cooler basically

my friends build will be:

• Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail
• Asus ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
• BenQ G2420HDBL 24" Widescreen LED Monitor
• Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard
• Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel (CMX6GX3M3A1600C9)
• Corsair HX 650W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-650HXUK)
• Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD1002FAEX)
• Coolermaster Storm Scout Gaming Case - Black

if it helps =/


but what do you recommend?

 

[Nemesis379]

nice..thanks for the advise

il look up on that.

 

[Nemesis379]

water cooling is better right?
but whats the downside to it? like how often will it leak?

i kinda like the h-50 design and looks good.

@cmndr andi
those heatsinks look huge and ugly lol. =/

so which to choose?

 

[Nemesis379]

You only really need water cooling if your thinking of overclocking your components.

Are you planning on OC'ing right off the bat? I wouldn't have thought a brand spanking new rig would need OC'ing.

I'd sooner spend that cash on better components and go for air cooling, if you get a decent heat sink you'll still be able to OC with it.

no.. dont think il OC yet.

maybe in future though. =/ (after 2-3 yrs)

so i guess the heatsink will do right?

 

[Nemesis379]

Take a look at the tuniq 120 extreme thats keeping my Phenom II 550 nicely at about 17-20 idle thatn about 30 under full load, this is with an overclock to 3.7ghz and the voltage increased to 1.45.

nice..

that cooler looks good in design =)

would that be better cooling than the heatsinks cmndr andi recommended?