Overclocking Q6600 CPU Cooler

Naamiko_O

Naamiko_O

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My motherboard is the Asus P5E Intel X38
(http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-249-AS)

And i'm going to overclock my Q6600 to 3.6Ghz on Air.

I was wondering what was the best CPU Cooler to get, I've heard good things about the Tuniq Tower, actually people don't stop raving on about them. However, when i've looked at pictures like these:

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I've noticed the Asus Silent Knight II is better. However i've heard its louder, although thats open to personal opinion.

Which one should I go for, and if its neither, which other one should i get?
 
A lot of people with the Silent Knight on a quad-core haven't been particularly happy with it (the table above is for a dual-core CPU).

I would certainly consider the Tuniq over it.
 
for sensible temps @ 3.6 on air you will need a TRUE and a 2000+ RPM fan or duel 1600RPM+ fans... something like a Sharkoon Silent Eagle 2000
 
Look at the picture, look at the rankings. See that the Asus Silent knight II is lower than the Tuniq Tower. Although its at the same Degree's i'm assuming it doesn't have the decimal places.
 
Naamiko_O said:
Look at the picture, look at the rankings. See that the Asus Silent knight II is lower than the Tuniq Tower. Although its at the same Degree's i'm assuming it doesn't have the decimal places.
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Dont be fooled. Dont be tempted. I've bought many HSF combo's in the past - not one of them was an Asus one, but Thermalright is a name you can trust.

If I couldn't buy a Thermalright, right now it would be a Tuniq.
 
Naamiko_O said:
Look at the picture, look at the rankings. See that the Asus Silent knight II is lower than the Tuniq Tower. Although its at the same Degree's i'm assuming it doesn't have the decimal places.
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I am pretty sure that it is just the way they did it. 0.X of a degree is a margin of error.

Anyway, as people have said, a TRUE and a Scythe S-Flex is the way to go.
 
GOOD LUCK

Hi I just had to wait to join before I could reply to your posts but I wanted to share my experience of the TOWER!!!

I had a OCZ Vendetta and had trouble keeping my quad core 6600 2.4 cool at 3 ghz. I could run Prime95 for ages but it would always creep over 70 which is a bit too hot looking for stable system.
Even worse when I tried to RUN OCCT - failed with CPU too hot after 3 mins!!!

So I googled around and like you I heard all this good stuff about the TT and started to read further. From all I gleamed it's up there with the best of them with perhaps a couple of degrees either way with Thermalrite Ultra 120 and others. What brought me to choose it over the others was the ease of install; very easy and although very big the back plates and thumbscrews were fine to install and rock solid stable.

So what difference has it made - LOADS.

remember I initially was only interested in 3ghz overclock. I now can run it at 3.5 ghz!!! AND... AND it passes the OCCT test !!!!!! That test is the hardest thing for your CPU. I have tried it on laptops and non overclocked machines and they just fail with CPU too hot. Not with the TT tower. SERIOUSLY IMPRESSED.

Idling at 3.5ghz it flutters 35 36 38 39 and normal load like game or file encode goes to 48 49 50 51.
When I stressed it out with the OCCT test it never went over 68!!!!!
Let me know what happens

Good Luck!!!
 
Naamiko_O said:
Look at the picture, look at the rankings. See that the Asus Silent knight II is lower than the Tuniq Tower. Although its at the same Degree's i'm assuming it doesn't have the decimal places.
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If you start at the bottom of the chart you posted and work upwards you'll notice that all the coolers with the same temperature are posted in alphabetical order. So according to that chart the Tuniq Tower is just as good as the Silent Knight II :)
 
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