Ultra Quiet 3770k Heatsink

[nervx]

Putting together a new machine and im looking for the quietest heatsink option that still cools like a champ. in my current pc i have a thermalright ultra-120 with a 800rpm fan. i would like to keep the noise to a similar level.

Originally i was looking at a thermalright hr-02 macho but thermalright seems to be going extinct and i cant find the heatsink anywhere in canada.

two other options that came up are:

-Noctua NH-U12P SE2
-Cooler Master Hyper 612 PWM


i cant find good comparisons for the cool master and cool master fans tend to be loud so i would likely replace it which brings the price for either within a few dollars.


if any canadian knows where to find a thermalright hr-02 macho let me know down below. otherwise any suggestions?

 

[DSF]

Scythe makes pretty good quiet coolers.

Here's their Mugen 3, although it's not the only one they offer:
http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=69122&vpn=SCMG-3100&manufacture=Scythe

 

[birthdaymonkey]

Noctua NH-D14 is easy to find in Canada and excellent. It's really the benchmark quiet cooler beside which others are measured. They go on sale from time to time for $50. I picked one up last winter from Memory Express for that price, and NCIX also had them very cheap recently.

 

[nervx]

Noctua NH-D14 is easy to find in Canada and excellent. It's really the benchmark quiet cooler beside which others are measured. They go on sale from time to time for $50. I picked one up last winter from Memory Express for that price, and NCIX also had them very cheap recently.

its an option im considering but to make it a truly quiet cooler you need to replace both fans with better 120mm low rpm fans. that bumps the price up a bit and low scythe gentle typhoons seem to be extinct.

 

[mple]

its an option im considering but to make it a truly quiet cooler you need to replace both fans with better 120mm low rpm fans. that bumps the price up a bit and low scythe gentle typhoons seem to be extinct.

Here you go. Picked up 6 of them earlier today.

 

[lehtv]

How much are you looking to overclock?

 

[nervx]

Here you go. Picked up 6 of them earlier today.

1800rpm, not exactly quiet and under volting too much to get the speed down causes motor noise on those fans. the 500 and 800 version are impossible to find as well.

How much are you looking to overclock?

for now nothing but in the furture maybe something moderate but not crazy. my main goal is a heatsink that is good at keeping temps low with low rpm/noise fans.

 

[lehtv]

OK. In that case, a D14 or anything like that is overkill. If you want a constant low noise level i.e. not PWM regulated, you will need a good heatsink and a constant low RPM fan. Here is literally the perfect deal for you, grab it fast:

Scythe Mugen 3 $37
+ Free gift: Scythe Slipstream 120mm 500RPM

The heatsink normally costs $45-50 and the 500RPM fan another $10.

The stock fan is 300 to 1500 RPM PWM, so it will be audible at load but will handle overclocking better than the 500RPM fan (within 5-10C of D14). For now, use the 500RPM fan, it'll handle load at stock clocks just fine and you'll never hear it

 

[birthdaymonkey]

If you do decide to try the D14, its fans can easily be undervolted for extremely quiet operation. The P12 in particular has excellent sound characteristics at full RPMs and undervolted.

In my case, like you I wanted my system to be as quiet as possible, so I replaced the stock fans with Nexus 120s, which (at 7v) keep my 2500k very comfortable at 4.6GHz. The more metal you have, the slower you can run your fans.

 

[nervx]

I managed to track down a thermalright hr-02(non-macho) for $38. this gives me plenty of room to pick my own fan but there's one question. on the thermalright webpage the hr-02 is listed in the socket 1155 collection of heatsinks but in the product description it says it's only compatible with sockets 1366/1156/775. are one of these sockets cross compatible with 1155 or is thermalright error?

 

[lehtv]

1156 socket uses the same installation brackets as 1155