Quiet Cooler for i7 - limited height

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Hi all,

Am looking for seemingly the impossible - a quiet i7 cooler that is less than 150mm in height. All the lovely heatpipe coolers are massive. Unsuccessfully tried to get a Noctuna U12 in today, even resorting to sawing off the top 10mm which reduced cooling performance far too much. Anyone got any bright ideas? The Asus Triton 81 would fit but apparently is noisy as hell.

Cheers,

Ollie
 
I'm sorry, but are you being serious when you say that you cut the top off the cooler??

No wonder it reduced the cooling performance, you completely ruined the heat pipes of the cooler. I find it upsetting that you have enough money to spend out on i7 rig but didn't look into something as important as cooling before going ahead.

Why the height restraints anyway? What case do you have?
 
Thanks for the replies guys.

Indeed we did chop the top of the cooler. It was good friday, we knew there was no way we could get another cooler for several days and thought, why not? Then did the research after to find out how stupid we'd been! Not a complete waste though, as the now we have two lovely 120mm Noctuna fans to use somewhere else.

The case is an Antec Take 4.

http://www.antec.com/Believe_it/product.php?id=MTE2Nw==

It seemed like it would fit from the spec but as bloody usual with these things, it's very hard to know for sure. The mobo is an Asus P6T Professional not sure about 775 mounting holes, seemed to only have one set of holes around the CPU.
 
Yes the Gelid looks like it might be the ticket. Also saw the Thermalright Ultima-90i on a certain other site, which can be adapted to 1366 with a bolt through kit, and would take the orphaned 120mm Noctuna fans!

Yes we did really cut the top off. With a hack saw. Did a lovely neat job and everything, actually looks quite cool but it don't keep the i7 cool, it idles about 75c! Ah but we live and learn.
 
And here I was hoping you were joking about cutting the tops off.

I know there is a top down noctua cooler, unsure of whether OcUK stock it or if it is 1366 compatible though. However it will fit, less that 130mm tall with fan.
 
I think we may try the Thermalright Ultima 90 with the bolt-through kit. Looks like a meaty hunk of heatsink, not too expensive (good considering the expensive we lesson we just had) and it will mean we can give the Noctua fans a purpose in life.
 
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