Best aircooling for LGA775?

[Smartazz]

$100 would be about as much as I can spend on an air cooling system, I've scrapped the idea of a liquid cooling system and I can redirect that money into buying really good aircooling for when I get my conroe, it can be a little over $100, but just keep it reasonable, thanks.

 

[Operandi]

Pretty hard to spend over $100 on air cooling.

Here is what I would go with, Thermalright SI-120 + 120mm Delta.

 

[Kremus]

Currently I have a Zalman CNPS9500 on my 3.73 LGA775. I would not say it is the best as I am upgrading it to watercooling in a few days. But, it does keep it from fairy cool even under load.

 

[Smartazz]

Originally posted by: Kremus
Currently I have a Zalman CNPS9500 on my 3.73 LGA775. I would not say it is the best as I am upgrading it to watercooling in a few days. But, it does keep it from fairy cool even under load.

What kind of watercooling?

 

[Kremus]

Well I ordered a Kingwin as-3000 just to see how much it could help my temps. It costs pretty cheap and supports the LGA775 chipset. But, I haven't tested it yet to see if it will get my temps down much. All the reviews I read for it are positive. It is just over $100 on newegg. I know it is cheap but I am just looking to get small gains right now as I enter the watercooling.

 

[Smartazz]

Originally posted by: Kremus
Well I ordered a Kingwin as-3000 just to see how much it could help my temps. It costs pretty cheap and supports the LGA775 chipset. But, I haven't tested it yet to see if it will get my temps down much. All the reviews I read for it are positive. It is just over $100 on newegg. I know it is cheap but I am just looking to get small gains right now as I enter the watercooling.

I looked into that system but I assumed it wasn't great, tell me how it goes, I'd rather not have to install a back plate under my motherboard like I would have to with many huge heatsinks.

 

[Kremus]

Ok I can keep you posted as to how the install goes. My three day weekend starts tomorrow and I will be starting the installation after I get home. I am a noob to watercooling but have a good tech background. So the install shouldn't be that hard. But, who knows. If you want to check it out Newegg has it for $98.

 

[Smartazz]

Originally posted by: Kremus
Ok I can keep you posted as to how the install goes. My three day weekend starts tomorrow and I will be starting the installation after I get home. I am a noob to watercooling but have a good tech background. So the install shouldn't be that hard. But, who knows. If you want to check it out Newegg has it for $98.

yeah I just checked it, good deal thanks. Are you planning to overclock?

 

[Kremus]

I am going to see how high I can get it but I don't think I will leave it overclocked for long.

 

[sky2002]

I have ThermalTake Big Water SE on my pentium D 805 clocking at 3.6Ghz.
It keeps it around 38-49 Celcius (idle to full load).

The only thing holding me to get to 4.0Ghz is the mobo Northbridge.
I am using abit Ni8 SLI that has a passive northbridge.

So Far I have been running very very stable. Went through prime95.
Also, had it run at 100% on both core doing DVD encoding. Ran perfectly fine.
Took about a little under 2 hours to encode a 2 hours DVD to Divx.

 

[JeepinEd]

I have a Kinwin -3000 and am fairly happy with it. It brought the CPU temp down to 110F under full load (from 125F), with the unit mounted externally. It's a pretty warm room it's in too.

My main problem with it is that the pump is weak. The unit comes with a small water flow indicator, which stopped spinning after 2 weeks. I opened the unit to see if the pump is still working, and it is, although I noticed the temps have gone up by about 4F. I thought about RMAing it, but decided it's too much of a pain in the a$$ to take it all apart again. My plan is to add an external pump, which will run me about $70.00, but it will allow me to add additional cooling plates. The radiator it comes with seems to be very good.

 

[Henny]

1. Tuniq Tower
2. Scythe Ninja +
3. Scythe Mine III
4. Thermaltake BT
5. Zalman CNPS9500

You won't go wrong with any of these. Tuniq is top dog but very large and instrusive.

The Zalman is at the bottom of the list on low fan speed but rises to the top of the list at high fan speed but becomes very noisy.

Scythe Ninja is a good pick for passive. However adding a fan is a real kludge.

Scythe Mine is neck and neck with TT and Ninja + but has a superior mount and a much better fan arrangement. (add a 120mm YL)

BT is a good pick for CPU AND PWM cooling.

 

[Operandi]

Originally posted by: Henny
1. Tuniq Tower
2. Scythe Ninja +
3. Scythe Mine III
4. Thermaltake BT
5. Zalman CNPS9500

You won't go wrong with any of these. Tuniq is top dog but very large and instrusive.

The Zalman is at the bottom of the list on low fan speed but rises to the top of the list at high fan speed but becomes very noisy.

Scythe Ninja is a good pick for passive. However adding a fan is a real kludge.

Scythe Mine is neck and neck with TT and Ninja + but has a superior mount and a much better fan arrangement. (add a 120mm YL)

BT is a good pick for CPU AND PWM cooling.

Umm.... the 9500 is one of the best low air flow/noise HS/Fs there is.

The Thermalright XP/SI-120, and Ultra-120 are also at the top of the list, personally I wouldn't recommend anything by Thermaltake.

 

[Henny]

Originally posted by: Operandi

Originally posted by: Henny
1. Tuniq Tower
2. Scythe Ninja +
3. Scythe Mine III
4. Thermaltake BT
5. Zalman CNPS9500

You won't go wrong with any of these. Tuniq is top dog but very large and instrusive.

The Zalman is at the bottom of the list on low fan speed but rises to the top of the list at high fan speed but becomes very noisy.

Scythe Ninja is a good pick for passive. However adding a fan is a real kludge.

Scythe Mine is neck and neck with TT and Ninja + but has a superior mount and a much better fan arrangement. (add a 120mm YL)

BT is a good pick for CPU AND PWM cooling.

Umm.... the 9500 is one of the best low air flow/noise HS/Fs there is.

The Thermalright XP/SI-120, and Ultra-120 are also at the top of the list, personally I wouldn't recommend anything by Thermaltake.

According to this review, the CNPS9500 doesn't perform very well on low:

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[Operandi]

Originally posted by: Henny

Originally posted by: Operandi

Originally posted by: Henny
1. Tuniq Tower
2. Scythe Ninja +
3. Scythe Mine III
4. Thermaltake BT
5. Zalman CNPS9500

You won't go wrong with any of these. Tuniq is top dog but very large and instrusive.

The Zalman is at the bottom of the list on low fan speed but rises to the top of the list at high fan speed but becomes very noisy.

Scythe Ninja is a good pick for passive. However adding a fan is a real kludge.

Scythe Mine is neck and neck with TT and Ninja + but has a superior mount and a much better fan arrangement. (add a 120mm YL)

BT is a good pick for CPU AND PWM cooling.

Umm.... the 9500 is one of the best low air flow/noise HS/Fs there is.

The Thermalright XP/SI-120, and Ultra-120 are also at the top of the list, personally I wouldn't recommend anything by Thermaltake.

According to this review, the CNPS9500 doesn't perform very well on low:

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Well I don't frequent that site but two of the best sites in HS/F testing say the exact opposite about the 9500.

SPCR Review: "Excellent low-airflow performance"

FrostyTech Review: "As a heatsink, the Zalman CNPS9500 LED functions best as a low noise cooler. With that translucent 92mm fan glowing blue and spinning at 1350RPM, the heatsink maintains good temperatures and excellent noise reduction."

 

[Armorize]

arctic cooler 7 pro as good as or better than the scythe ninja

 

[ronnystrauss]

A friend of mine used a thermaltake big typhoon and got his pentium d 805 to 4ghz

 

[Kremus]

So I finally got the as-3000 install. It worked well and got the temps down a bit. I never break 60c when it is under full load. That is 14 degrees lower then before. But the idle temps are just about the same.

On the other hand I had some trouble filling the tank up with that fluid. But in the end I got all the bubbles out and it started working just fine. I let it run 24 hours before I hooked it up. installing was easy even though I had to take out the mobo to do so. Well for my first water cooling installation I think it went well.

 

[pkme2]

I usually recommend Yate Loon 120mm.
http://www.jab-tech.com/YATE-LOON-120mm-Case-Fan-D12SL-12-pr-3009.html

But in your case you might consider these.
A little noisy but they push a lot of air. 265cfm @ $49.99.
http://www.frozencpu.com/scan/se=Fans/se=150mm%20Fans/mp=menu_search.html
Imagine 2 on side intakes, wow!