Skyhte Ninja

David230 · 26 Mar 2006 at 11:56

Hi,

Thinking of using air cooling for my 939 asus premium and oc'd 3800+ x2. Noticed a lot of good things said about the "ninja" with some people saying its probably the best overall air-cooler available. Is this the general opinion amongst you guys? Guess what I need to know is, what temps should be expeted for stock 3800+ x2 or OC's (examples)? I would go watercooling, but I am so impressed with the quiet operation and performance of my zalman vf700 g/card cooler I'd like something as good or even better for the CPU.

cheers

HighlandeR · 26 Mar 2006 at 13:54

Its good if it can fit inside your case

I love my layout I decided to go with the Eclipse 62 case and ninja and the layout is so good ive got a silent 120mm fan blowing the hot air out and straight out of the case via the 120mm fan hole on the other side of the heatsink.

Its a great heatsink that comes with no fan which is good cos u can choose your own fan/noise.

Only nasty thing I had with it was u gotta re-do your pc as in take out the mainboard and take off the amd back plate and put the new ninja one on.

I have personaly not had good experiences with that back plate cos its metal and uses some frail plastic sticker I found bits of it were still touching my mobo+case and shorting out my pc.... modded the plastic amd back plate and all fine

David230 · 26 Mar 2006 at 14:11

thanks HighlandeR, i've gotta take the mobo out anyway as my aquagate w/cooler is attatched a similar way.

Just writing out a little OCuk shopping list.

ted34 · 26 Mar 2006 at 23:58

Have heard of a few probs with ninja backplates and people just using standard one instead. How much modification needs to be done to it thou - is it just change the screws?

james.miller · 27 Mar 2006 at 00:00

great heatsink's. extremely quiet, and keeps things rather cool. my opteron 148 loads at 48c @ 2980mhz 1.55v

TooNice · 27 Mar 2006 at 03:23

HighlandeR said:
Its good if it can fit inside your case

Any idea if it fits a Coolermaster CM201?

pcfan · 27 Mar 2006 at 09:49

TooNice said:
Any idea if it fits a Coolermaster CM201?

I hear it touches the side panel.

ted34 · 27 Mar 2006 at 10:49

pcfan said:
I hear it touches the side panel.

If it does and you are still able to close the panel then that will help dissipate the heat even better

iraiguana · 27 Mar 2006 at 11:29

yes but then it may not fit quite right and will put more pressure on the core which is not even and so could cause damage (that is worst case). But i doubt u would see much benefit from having the heatsink touching the case.

Mark A · 27 Mar 2006 at 13:34

Plus if you put a fan on it and its touching the sidepanel it could be noisey. Seems like a decent cooler from the reviews ive seen, plus coupled with a quiet fan itll be very quiet.

Mark