I somehow happened across an awesome Antec Kuhler 920 thanks to [H]ardOCP and Antec... and it arrived today! (THANK YOU THANK YOU!!) I don't like to keep hardware waiting. In fact, I'd say I have some sort of problem. I tend to not eat, drink, or sleep until whatever I got in the mail is fully installed and tested. I do not feel pain, I do not have a concept of time and there is usually a good bit of sweat involved.
Problem is, my case is older and had no 120mm spots for a fan.. but there sure is a lot of room at the top, and I don't have 50 optical drives so I determined I could EASILY fit this cooler in my case. Turns out I was right! In the end, I have dropped my load temps 25C versus the stock intel cooler on my Q9450 @ 3.23GHz (stock 2.66GHz.) It is conservatively overclocked at the moment, tomorrow I will push it balls to the walls Tonight.... sleep. Basically though... if you have one of these older cases, it is certainly not that difficult to make it work with these units. There is ample room so... do it!
As usual, crappy cell phone pics. Enjoy! Look at that space next to the power supply egging me on:
F#@! magnets???
The steel on this case is THICK. 4 or 5 cutoff wheels ground down to nothingness.
Derp, this needs to go somewhere.
Oh hai.
Nuclear reactor-like water block.. check! Terrible cell phone picture.. check!
Problem is, my case is older and had no 120mm spots for a fan.. but there sure is a lot of room at the top, and I don't have 50 optical drives so I determined I could EASILY fit this cooler in my case. Turns out I was right! In the end, I have dropped my load temps 25C versus the stock intel cooler on my Q9450 @ 3.23GHz (stock 2.66GHz.) It is conservatively overclocked at the moment, tomorrow I will push it balls to the walls Tonight.... sleep. Basically though... if you have one of these older cases, it is certainly not that difficult to make it work with these units. There is ample room so... do it!
As usual, crappy cell phone pics. Enjoy! Look at that space next to the power supply egging me on:
F#@! magnets???
The steel on this case is THICK. 4 or 5 cutoff wheels ground down to nothingness.
Derp, this needs to go somewhere.
Oh hai.
Nuclear reactor-like water block.. check! Terrible cell phone picture.. check!
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