Whats the best small LED heatsink for 1155 socket?

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howayman

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You have all been of great help to me in the past so I thought hey, why not ask the people that know.

I have looked and looked over the internet but all the ones I come across seem to be Zalman coolers for the 775 socket.

The mobo is a small one, its a Gigabyte ga-h61ma-d2v.

The case is a coolermaster k380.

The ram will NOT be low profile it will be corsair value 1333mhz (9).

The case only comes with one fan but I will be installing another 3 (if you think I need them).

It will have an hd 7770 or something similar as its gpu.

I might overclock the card but nothing else. I know you cant overclock the cpu on these boards which is a shame but it will give me more coolers to choose from I guess.

It has to be LED. It has to fit in the case. It has to be for an 1155 socket.

It hasn't been assembled yet so can be put straight onto mobo, so even if its got a difficult backplate or anything, it doesn't matter.

Help please, I am cracking up.
 
Just because you cant overclock doesnt mean your limited on cooler choices, You could stick a noctua nh-d14 on and it would be complete overkill lol

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Vapor-X CPU Cooler w/ Dual Fan & 4 Heatpipes (Socket 1155 / 1150 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £54.98
1 x Enermax T60-VD Vegas Top-Down CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1150 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £42.98
1 x Enermax T40-VD Vegas CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 1150 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £34.99
1 x Xigmatek Dark Knight SD-1283 Night Hawk Edition CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1150 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £34.99
Total : £179.35 (includes shipping : £9.50).



Another option is to purchase a cheap cooler such as this which is a decent cooler and then replace the fan with an led one.
YOUR BASKET
1 x Cooler Master Hyper T4 CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1150 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £20.99
Total : £26.96 (includes shipping : £4.98).



or just use a standard cooler and fill the case with led fans and led light strips?
 
There is no "overkill" when it comes to coolers. Coolers are long term investment. The better it cools the more I like it because the slower the fans need to run to keep system cool so the quieter the system is.
 
Unfortunately I think all of the ones mentioned are to big.
Unless I am reading it wrong the mobo recommends coolers 90mm or 140mm with fan.
The chassis recommends 150mm max

As a guidline I originally tried fitting a 212 evo before I was asked to have it LED. It didn't fit.
 
The instruction guide says 150. If of course you are right and you most probably are, it would still only leave 1mm. That isn't much for error lol. The mobo guide says maximum of 140mm. Do you know of anything at 140?
 
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