How is this cooler? Looking to "maybe" replace my infinity cooler

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I cant belive im idling @ 42/43c :confused: I thought C2D chips were cool running? Anyhow, Is this cooler worth a crap you think? If not, what is a better cooler (not phase though, cant afford that now) than my infinity? Maybe an AWESOME 100% complete W/C kit might be nice. Anything that can get me into the 30's @ idle with this current OC (see sig) would be excellent. Thank you.

Here is a link to this cooler
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835702002
 
It would be better, but it's a ripoff for that price. Those temps are perfectly fine anyways, as long as you don't have any stability issues there's no reason to obsess over your idle temps. Load temps are the important ones anyways.

If you really insist, then you should try the alternate mounting system that someone over at XS came up with. It's much more secure since it bolts through the mobo, and it's pretty cheap. Google it, you shouldn't have any trouble finding it.
 
I have two suggestions......
cheap: arctic cooling Freezer Pro 7. I have an e6300 up to 2.5 from stock of 1.86 and it runs idle 36 and load 43C. Its real quiet. Cost 34 bucks.

Little more: CorsairNautilus 500. External water cooling. So easy I even did it. Have an FX-57 clocked to 3.2 and it is no warmer than stock at full tilt (about 42-44 C) I think it was 150 dollars or so and did not require removing the MB. [H] has a review on it. I like it alot. Real easy to use and can expand to include a NB cooler.
 
The Titan Amanda and the Vigor Monsoon are the same cooler, except the Monsoon has the 5.25" bay control panel. I personally don't think the panel is worth $50. There is apparently only one supplier for the Amanda in North America, someone else on this forum picked one up from them so I suggest you do a search for Titan Amanda and you should find his thread.
 
neither , get the tuniq tower. erm, nevermind your running an infinity already, not much difference in the 2. the infinity is ane xcellent cooler. I'd imagine the ones your looking at will give your worse performance than the infinity.

if you want lower temps. look into water cooling or phase change. or at the very least, whats your mobo temps? perhaps you not getting good airflow across nearby components and its helping to heat the cpu.
 
The Infinity is better than the Tuniq Tower, so it would be pointless to go down in performance.
 
Zero82z said:
The Infinity is better than the Tuniq Tower, so it would be pointless to go down in performance.
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ya i re-edited. altho i've seen the tower do better by a few degrees. i apologize i didn't realize at first he had an infinity, i assumed he was running stock.

i wouldn't get a faster fan, altho you could, might be a bit more noise, perhaps thats fine to you. but really then why even by these large heatpiped heatsinks then if your not going to run a low speed fan. you would be just as better off running an old school finned heatsink with a 5400rpm fan. but erm, ya, a faster fan would definitely help. check your mobo air flow tho.

my 2 cents.
 
Actually, the Infinity's design makes its performance increase more with a high-airflow fan than the Ninja, so getting a fan with a rating of >80CFM would give a decent drop in temps.
 
What did you use to measure the temps? I would only get temps that high using TAT.

According to my motherboard prope my [email protected] with an infinity idles in the 20's, gets up to about 40 under load. If you get 43 using the motherboard probe that suggests either you've mounted the infinity wrong, applied heatsync paste badly or your case airflow is rubbish.

(incidentally I used artic silver 5 not whatever came with the heatsync, and a bit of wire attached to the top of the case to take the weight of the heatsync so it stays flat against the cpu, and have a P180 case which has a very good fan layout for the infinity).
 
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