Quietest £50 cooler

Which XMS3, the normal sized ones? With the really tall ones you would have to lift the 120 front fan up. Otherwise the D14 has no issues with ram, even rip jaws are fine with it.

What case do you have? It's quite a tall cooler, most cases will fit it though.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-290-CS

If you mean that ram, it won't interfere.

It's an absolutely huge cooler, but can cool almost passively. Thermalright are great too and this is on offer: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-078-TR&groupid=701&catid=2330&subcat=2352
 
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Alpenföhn K2
Noctua D14
Thermalright Silver arrow
Phanteks PH-TC14PE

any of those really
 
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spixelspixel said:
There's only 3-4 degrees difference between a 15 pound heatsink and a 60 pound one, on my 2500k at least.
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Suppose he could get a 612S and be very happy with it, I'm ordering one today. :D Well..now actually. :D Get my free postage now.

Lol, trying to resist the sweet offer on the SB-E.

I resisted after watching an installation video of the Thermalright, so awkward compared to the Noctua mounting bracket.

Product Name Price Qty Line Total
Antec High Current Gamer 400W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £30.82 1 £30.82
Cooler Master Hyper 612S CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/1156/1155/775/AM3/AM2+/AM2) £27.49 1 £27.49
YEEEEEE will post tomorrow temps from Q6600 @3.2GHz if you are interested in this cooler.
 
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BrianB said:
Suppose he could get a 612S and be very happy with it, I'm ordering one today. :D Well..now actually. :D Get my free postage now.

Lol, trying to resist the sweet offer on the SB-E.

I resisted after watching an installation video of the Thermalright, so awkward compared to the Noctua mounting bracket.

Product Name Price Qty Line Total
Antec High Current Gamer 400W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £30.82 1 £30.82
Cooler Master Hyper 612S CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/1156/1155/775/AM3/AM2+/AM2) £27.49 1 £27.49
YEEEEEE will post tomorrow temps from Q6600 @3.2GHz if you are interested in this cooler.
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The Thermalright is actually easy to install. The CM612 on the other hand... :p. Good thing it performs well to make up for that.
 
I don't understand why they have such a stupid mounting mechanism. I've commented on it many times and they don't do anything to improve it. Alpenfohn on the other hand actually took what I said into consideration and have one of the best mounting kits around.
 
Lol, it's a tiny little spanner, which if you lose you are going to need to find another surely? Also you can't turn the spanner much as it's between the heatsink? The K2 and Noctua mounts are almost identical. :) Very good mounting system, the Noctua has the bridge welded to the heatsink though which makes it a bit easier. They are both the same price rightnow too, so Noctua ftw. :D
 
There isn't much between them at all, I would have chosen the K2 at £59 and Noctua at £72, but at same price the Noctua is my choice. Not to say anything bad about the K2, I can't knock it. :) Just know that the fans on the Noctua are silent, because I use one. I do like how the K2 has PWM fans, but isn't needed on D14, can happily run my D14 and 1300RPM all day long, it is diminishing though tbh, it cools well enough with 900RPM I get a 1-2C difference with fans up.
 
Yeah, they're both great choices.
I leave my K2 on 1000rpm. Getting those extra few degrees lower with higher rpm's only really matters on review bar graphs ;)

Apart from slightly lower temps, the main advantage of big coolers is the fact that you can run lower rpm's and therefore get lower noise levels.
 
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