Recommend Me A New Heatsink

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As the title suggests really. I'm running a 939 X2 4400 at stock speed. I'm not really interested in overclocking as the processor is plenty fast enough as it is :)

I tried watercooling before (that went horribly wrong, just ask my 7800gtx). Before I had the 4400 I was using a 2700 XP with the Alpha PAL8045. That was an awesome little heatsink (I say little!).

I've seen on the boards that the Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro is getting a lot of praise. Is it the best value one out there at the moment?

Just for reference, I'm using the stock cooler at the moment, so the CPU is running at an unacceptable 42 idle and 48 under load. Well I find it unacceptable anyway. I'd like to reduce that significantly is possible! Budget is healthy, I can afford to stretch to £40 for heatsink and fan if it really is worth it.

Many thanks for looking, and i look forward to seeing the suggestions all!
 
freezer 64 appears to be the biggest bang for the buck, however you might want to look at a sythe ninja or similar as you have the money, but do you have the space!?!?

daven
 
Yep the artic freezer series are very good value for money. I have a Thermaltake Big typhoon and i previously had an artic freezer. The big typhoon easily wins between the two. a lot of people recommend the Zalman CNPS9500 series and Scythe Ninja Plus Heatpipe CPU Cooler seems to be the king..
 
Scythe Ninja is the only answer imo :p


I went from a Freezer Pro to a scythe ninja and i wont be going back any time soon :)
 
AC Freezer Pro 64 especially if you arent OC'ing.
Great cooling and will keep you CPU a couple of degrees over ambient.

MC_Bob
 
That's great guys cheers. I'm getting tempted by the Scythe I have to say. Looks one hell of a beast! I'm just wondering though about how to mount it on the motherboard. While using the watercooling setup a few months ago, I may have inadvertantly damaged the mounting thingy. :rolleyes:

I followed the link to check out more on the cooler and it looks like it comes with a new mounting kit. Is this correct? In which case, it looks like the best bet. I'm assuming I will have to take the motherboard out to fit it. That's the only annoyance :p Just to check also that it will fit my motherboard, I have the A8N-SLi Premium (not the 32 edition).

edit: also, I'm hoping that it is as quiet as it claims to be. Noise is quite important for me.
 
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Its fairly easy to fit. Get your mobo out, take off the old retention bracket and put the scythe one on then the mounting mechanism is similar to S478 HSFs. Is an amazing cooler and now comes with a fan. I believe it is still the best air cooler and outperforms many low end water cooling kits! It is as quiet as the quietest fan you put on it. You can run it passive but i don't think it would be able to cope with your chip like that. Maybe if you undervolted it or something.
It runs my semi-overclocked 3700 at around 30 idel and 35 load. But thats on an an asus with a funky temp sensor. On my DFI it was 20-25 which was ace :D
 
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