I use H55 Corsair on my AMD 6 Core Phenom II 1055T *nix box, and whilst encoding video @ approx. 99% on all cores it stays below 40 degrees. When not encoding cpu sits at a nominal 27 degrees.
Thats Antec box with 9 x SATA drives, bottom intake fan on low setting and PSU rear intake, no GFX card and top outlet fan.
Oh and its very quiet!!!