old school overclocker.. a newbie again

[GeX]

hi all.

its been a while since i've done any serious overclocking. My last setup was an asus p4p800 with an engineering sample 3.0ghz northwood, which was happy at 286x12.5.. it wasn't a serious overclock - nothing like my system before that..

http://tackycheese.net/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=99

back in athlon (tbirds) were the chip to clock.

hehe.

anyway, slightly off topic. my p4 system died recently so ive replaced it with a gigabye DS3, e6300 and 2gb of geil low latancy pc6400.

i'm looking at overclocking this, but have no idea what cooler to go for. it used to be easy. there wasnt many to choose from. heatpipe used to be crap, copper based sinks with ally fins were the ones to be had.

what about northbridge cooling? this seems to be more of an issue nowadays. am i reet to just bung a 60mm fan (off set so it covers the heatsink, and doesnt leave a dead spot in the middle where the bearing is) on there. or should i be looking at putting an uprated cooler on there too.

any hints, tips etc grealy appericated

 

[Nick1881]

Depends on your budget, an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro can be had for £16, for £30+ you have the choice of the really big stuff like Scythe Ninja, Tuniq Tower 120 or Noctua NH-U12F. Any of these will do the trick.

For NB you have the Zalman ZM-NBF47, Thermalright HR-05 or Noctua NC-U6.

Have a look here http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=57

Dont forget your Thermal Compound

 

[kingo15]

i have the freezer pro 7 on my e6300 running at 3.1ghz and that gets to about 45 deg after about 4 hrs + on orthos and sits at about 30 degs on idle.

well worth the 17 quid or so i feel imo