Q9550 cooling

Mikey · 15 Dec 2011 at 22:13

Got a Noctua HSF unit on my Q9550 at present and looking at a Corsair hxx water based cooler, any good.

Will be in a Coolermaster Silenco 550 case with 2 x 80GB drives and HD5870 gfx card

gavsta1981 · 15 Dec 2011 at 22:42

i have the h60 and my case is big enough for the h60 and 2x 3.5 fans pushing through and 1 3.5 fan drawing air from rad
ill post a pic

j.col · 16 Dec 2011 at 21:21

what Noctua do you have?
some of the corsair H series are worse than a high end air cooler

have a look at Helios's review
http://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/cooler_master_hyper_612s_cpu_cooler_review,14.html

Mikey · 16 Dec 2011 at 21:28

Will Check but NH-u12p I think

j.col · 16 Dec 2011 at 22:08

that is near the bottom of the above review.
the only closed loop coolers in the top 10 is the H100 or the Kuhler 920

personally i would go for a silver arrow if it will fit with your case/ram
H50 would hardly be any different than your noctua imo

Mikey · 16 Dec 2011 at 22:18

Will land the case next week and go from there.

Cheers for advice

EggCustard · 17 Dec 2011 at 16:30

Don't count on the cheap ready made watercooling kits to help you much if at all over a high-end air cooler, especially if your case is well ventilated. Your best bet is to stick with the latter unless you want to go spending 100's on proper water cooling.

Mikey · 17 Dec 2011 at 16:36

EggCustard said:
Don't count on the cheap ready made watercooling kits to help you much if at all over a high-end air cooler, especially if your case is well ventilated. Your best bet is to stick with the latter unless you want to go spending 100's on proper water cooling.

Hi,

No my main aim to get the case smaller, quieter etc.

Then move the 2 x 1TB spare drives I have into a NAS and so forth etc.

Mikey · 21 Dec 2011 at 08:41

Well started the move to the new case last night and it looks like the Noctua NH-U12P CPU Cooler is too big mmm

So time to look at the options.

Should have done my home work - lol

http://www.noctua.at/main.php?show=productview&products_id=14&lng=en&set=1

EggCustard · 23 Dec 2011 at 13:45

Noctua make a smaller cooler than the NH-U12P, which is like a smaller brother of the latter i.e. looks identical yet smaller. That should fit the bill though can't remember its measurements.

Mikey · 23 Dec 2011 at 13:48

Case closes with my cooler, but not sure if the foam is pushing onto the CPU.

I need to check things over as things are a bit noisey and also there is 10 degrees C diff between cores.

So will re-apply the cpu and paste and install the fan speed reducers

1uke · 26 Dec 2011 at 21:10

I had a H50 cooling my Q9550@4ghz for 2 years and it was brilliant. Temps never went over 60c even when Prime testing. I have only gone full watercooled setup to watercool my graphics cards as they are to noisey. I would reccomend a custom loop if you can afford it as its so much more quieter and temps have improved greatly for me as the same Q9550@4ghz only hits late 40c's after a few hours prime testing now and barely goes over 40c when I'm playing Bf3 for a few hours.