Which cooler for Ivy Bridge in a Antec P182 Case?

Bobmunkhouse · 21 Apr 2012 at 14:56

Hi all

Im looking to get a new a Ivy System and not sure on which cooler to get....I can spend up to £50 if needed but have been looking at cheaper ones like these -

Corsair A50 - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-001-CS&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395

Gelid Tranquillo - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-001-GD&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395

Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-035-CM&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395

These are all around £25.....should spend more and will there be any issues with my case?

Krono5 · 21 Apr 2012 at 15:07

Depends if you want to OC and to how much.

Ollie1132 · 21 Apr 2012 at 15:12

Depends on how far you want to overclock and whats your cases clearance?

Bobmunkhouse · 21 Apr 2012 at 15:18

Not sure on case clearance will have to measure later.....would like to get to 4.5Ghz really....

Ollie1132 · 21 Apr 2012 at 15:22

Not sure if you'll be able to reach 4.5ghz with out quite a lot of heat with those coolers. But can't really say since I have no idea on what kind of heat you would actually be getting on IB anyway.

beejjacobs · 21 Apr 2012 at 15:40

All of them are good, I'd get the Gelid as it's slightly cheaper, and the smallest at 153mm tall.

For SB, 4.5Ghz on such a cooler is quite achievable. As Ollie1132 said, can't say much about IB until it's out and reviewed

Bobmunkhouse · 21 Apr 2012 at 17:14

beejjacobs said:
All of them are good, I'd get the Gelid as it's slightly cheaper, and the smallest at 153mm tall.

For SB, 4.5Ghz on such a cooler is quite achievable. As Ollie1132 said, can't say much about IB until it's out and reviewed

Cool thanks for info

Bobmunkhouse · 22 Apr 2012 at 10:47

Ok I have found I have 17cm clearance from the MB to top of case so should be able to get most coolers in there.....worried about Ivy Bridge heat....

Sasahara · 22 Apr 2012 at 12:42

My heatsink is the maximum height the P182 will take.

http://www.thermalright.com/new_a_page/product_page/cpu/u120ex/product_cpu_cooler_u120ex_reva.html

Ivy bridge should require less cooling compared to Sandy bridge, so any Heatsink that works on SB will be fine.

Surveyor · 22 Apr 2012 at 14:22

Sasahara said:
Ivy bridge should require less cooling compared to Sandy bridge, so any Heatsink that works on SB will be fine.

Not from what I've read in other threads.

Ivy Bridge processors seem to be toasty when overclocked.

For the same overclock you need better cooling than Sandy Bridge or with the same cooler you'll be limited to a lower overclock.

Ollie1132 · 22 Apr 2012 at 14:33

Surveyor said:
Not from what I've read in other threads.

Ivy Bridge processors seem to be toasty when overclocked.

For the same overclock you need better cooling than Sandy Bridge or with the same cooler you'll be limited to a lower overclock.

Slightly true. You should be able to achieve a max clock of 4.6-4.8 on top air coolers on Ivy Bridge (Phanteks PH14/Alphofehn K2) But your temps will probably be 75+ under load.

Surveyor · 22 Apr 2012 at 15:01

Ollie1132 said:
Slightly true. You should be able to achieve a max clock of 4.6-4.8 on top air coolers on Ivy Bridge (Phanteks PH14/Alphofehn K2) But your temps will probably be 75+ under load.

At the moment it looks like with the same cooler, and getting the same temperature, you can (roughly speaking) have Sandy @ 4.8GHz or Ivy at 4.5GHz which will pretty much give both processors equal performance apart from the integrated GPU.

Ollie1132 · 22 Apr 2012 at 15:04

Indeed. Which doesn't really make them worse to clock just means they are lower clock speeds for the same performance. Which theoretically is better since the vcore for a 4.5Ghz OC on a IB i5 is significantly less than the vcore of a SB i5 at 4.8Ghz.

Surveyor · 22 Apr 2012 at 15:10

Ollie1132 said:
Indeed. Which doesn't really make them worse to clock just means they are lower clock speeds for the same performance. Which theoretically is better since the vcore for a 4.5Ghz OC on a IB i5 is significantly less than the vcore of a SB i5 at 4.8Ghz.

But for roughly the same performance you're going to need roughly the same level of cooling.

Ivy doesn't appear to offer any benefit in the level of CPU cooling you can use.

Davefran · 22 Apr 2012 at 15:12

According to screenshots I've seen the TJ max is 105C for IB, which is 7C higher than SB. So they are designed to run hotter.

Ollie1132 · 22 Apr 2012 at 15:14

That is true but they are as Dave said designed to run hotter. For me IB will be a big step up from my E6500, and if Im lucky and they release a second stepping near June then Ill get that instead of the initial release ones

Or Ill just get a SB i7 to hold me over until Skylake.

Surveyor · 22 Apr 2012 at 15:18

Davefran said:
According to screenshots I've seen the TJ max is 105C for IB, which is 7C higher than SB. So they are designed to run hotter.

It's a good job really because the indications so far are is that they do run hotter.

If you have CPU Cooler X then roughly speaking it'll get you the same level of performance with Ivy and Sandy before you run into temperature problems.

Surveyor · 22 Apr 2012 at 15:20

Ollie1132 said:
That is true but they are as Dave said designed to run hotter. For me IB will be a big step up from my E6500, and if Im lucky and they release a second stepping near June then Ill get that instead of the initial release ones Or Ill just get a SB i7 to hold me over until Skylake.

And they do seem to run a lot hotter:

anyon said:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums...e-Ivy-Bridge-3570K-vs-Sandy-Bridge-comparison.

And I was going to finally go from my ancient q9550 to the latest CPU.

15 degrees warmer on a good watercooling setup @1.3v

Ollie1132 · 22 Apr 2012 at 15:23

Yeah I already know. Tis why Im buying high end air cooling and fitting as many fans as I can into my case to get good airflow going.

jeff6475 · 22 Apr 2012 at 19:17

you need something good!