Stock heatsink is no more!!!!

sh4dy1981 · 13 Jan 2009 at 17:36

Well the noctua heatsink turned up today. reliable as ever ocuk

here is some pics one of b4 and some of the heatsink going in. never had a chance to have a go with the cables yet but il get round to it. oh il include a pic of the superb cable management of my old rig

Before

After

And one of my awesome cable management in my old build

So no more mickey taking for having a ramape extreme II with stock heatsink please

95thrifles · 13 Jan 2009 at 19:32

There was cable management in there? lol

atheos · 13 Jan 2009 at 19:49

Shady, a man after my own heart

. That last pic is a mirror image of my pc. its spaghetti junction in my case. Your new pc looks well tidy for an initial build. Enjoy it man! Its a beauty

Any micro-stuttering with the 295 man?

R3dge · 13 Jan 2009 at 19:50

How's the gtx 295 handling?

thepeganator · 13 Jan 2009 at 20:15

Good cable management can drop a few C off your temps, you should try it...

95thrifles · 13 Jan 2009 at 20:19

thepeganator said:
Good cable management can drop a few C off your temps, you should try it...

Another example of how people dont actually read whats written, he said he's going to do it, not having a go at you personally mate, there just seems to be an awful lot of people on this forum of late who are chipping in their 2 cents without actually reading whats gone before them

thepeganator · 13 Jan 2009 at 20:25

95thrifles said:
Another example of how people dont actually read whats written, he said he's going to do it, not having a go at you personally mate, there just seems to be an awful lot of people on this forum of late who are chipping in their 2 cents without actually reading whats gone before them

You know I could have been saying that to atheos.

My point wasn't he should do it, it was that doing it can knock a few degrees of your temps.

sh4dy1981 · 13 Jan 2009 at 22:02

been playing gta4 tested farcry 2 and played l4d have seen no micro stuttering. just damn fast fps!

atheos · 13 Jan 2009 at 23:09

I can only imagine man. it must be amazing

R3dge · 14 Jan 2009 at 08:45

I am ordering my i7 rig, either tomorrow or friday, might pick it up to save delivery, DAMN excited!

gazza0371 · 14 Jan 2009 at 08:51

sh4dy, what are the heatpipes on the Noctua made out of? copper or aluminum?

PhillyDee · 14 Jan 2009 at 08:55

I had one of those Noctua coolers and they are fantastic. I never compared them with my Tuniq, but it kept an overclocked Quad really cool. I think the pipes are a plated copper as they are almost the same colour as the fins, but since I dotn have one anymore I cannot check.

gazza0371 · 14 Jan 2009 at 09:03

PhillyDee said:
I had one of those Noctua coolers and they are fantastic. I never compared them with my Tuniq, but it kept an overclocked Quad really cool. I think the pipes are a plated copper as they are almost the same colour as the fins, but since I dotn have one anymore I cannot check.

Yeah, would have thought they were copper too - I'm running the 775 socket version and they aren't plated so thought I'd check. I do like the Noctuas.

sorn21 · 14 Jan 2009 at 15:46

Nice build buddy, said it before though

Glad to see you got your act together haha
Whats the noise like from those Noctua's?

sh4dy1981 · 14 Jan 2009 at 17:42

i think the heatpipes are plated copper. the heatsink plate looks like its aluminium. i could be wrong though