Well in my infinite wisdom I sort of managed to get an Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro on to my BFG nForce Ultra motherboard a few months ago. I thought it fit ok, the clip was stable (even though there is a lot of stuff crammed around the CPU socket as you can see from this pic on BFG's website), and all was well.
Then last Saturday it fell off (and if you have one you'll know they're pretty big and pretty heavy). Luckily it didn't damage anything and got caught up in cables before it could plummet right through my GFX card.
So now I need a new CPU cooler and I'm after some recommendations. I can't use the Freezer 64 as it I've tried to put it back in and can see that although it seems stable, the clip doesn't stay in place properly on one side of the CPU because it hits other bits that raise off of the motherboard.
So, ideally I'm after:
Any suggestions are appreciated!
Then last Saturday it fell off (and if you have one you'll know they're pretty big and pretty heavy). Luckily it didn't damage anything and got caught up in cables before it could plummet right through my GFX card.
So now I need a new CPU cooler and I'm after some recommendations. I can't use the Freezer 64 as it I've tried to put it back in and can see that although it seems stable, the clip doesn't stay in place properly on one side of the CPU because it hits other bits that raise off of the motherboard.
So, ideally I'm after:
- A cooler which uses the standard CPU socket to latch on to, as I really don't fancy disassembling everything to put a new cooler in (and I don't overclock at the moment so I don't need anything too clever)
- A cooler which doesn't spill over to the area around the CPU socket, especially on the rear side closest to all of the ports (you'll see why from the pic in the link above)
- If possible, something as quiet as the 64 Pro
Any suggestions are appreciated!