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Silverstone Sugo Case + CNPS8700..

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kiajoon

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I am using a Asus P5V-VM DH board, which means the stock cooler is aligned with the top edge really closed. With the socket positioned really high up, it is very tight at the edges. Is the CNPS8700 bigger in diameter then the Intel stock fan? I plan on getting one as I will be looking at swapping the board to a P5K-VM in a few months, and wish to use the CNPS8700 for the time being,

As for height wise will it clash with the PSU? The stock cooler is already pretty near the PSU grill.

Many thanks for information to those who has this heatsink and case, :D
 
Not sure about the Zalman but you can certainly use the Silverstone NT-06 and stick a 120mm fan under the heatsink. Though I don't see the point as the PSU fan should be able to evacuate the heat from the heatsink.
 
Well it is always the case of the PSU fan fighting against the CPU cooler as they are facing each other with the board lying down. I was even thinking of making a shroud to channel the hot air in to the PSU, then I thought about the PSU fan becoming extremely noisy with the heat. Anyway there are loads of vents on the side of the case, which I think will serve as a form of exhaust as the air gets pushed to the edges.
 
The CNPS8700, IIRC, is a bit too tall for the SUGO. The CNPS8000, however, will fit... as does the CNPS7700.

(Also, which SUGO case do you have? The SG01? Or the SG03?)

Due to the limited amount of space between the CPU and the power supply, the NT06 LITE is (arguably) the best heatsink to use in the SUGO.
 
I have the Sugo 01. It is th eold model with dual 60mm fans for exhaust. I read several reviews that teh Silverstone cooler and the 8000CNPS are not good performers, and the stock cooler is just as good. I will try to shift the gear into the Sugo case with the stock cooler and se if it fits and whther if there is going to be a lot of tubulance.
 
The issue with cooling is that, inside both SUGO cases, the PSU's bottom fan (pushing air up and out of the case) competes with the fan on the CPU cooler (pushing air down onto the processor), creating a vacuum effect in the space between the top of the CPU cooler and the bottom of the PSU. The resulting vacuum effect reduces the amount of air that's available, which reduces the overall efficiency of the CPU cooler to cool down the processor. It's for that reason that the NT06 LITE is a good choice for the SUGO cases -- it doesn't come with a fan, but it uses the fan from the PSU to draw the heat away from the processor. The problem with that is, with the exception of Silverstone's PSUs (particularly the ST50EF-SC power supply, which Silverstone designed to work with the SUGO cases), most power supplies aren't designed to push a large amount of air out of the case. Many people have "solved" that problem by placing a fan, blowing up towards the PSU, underneath the NT06 LITE; by replacing the fan inside the power supply with a more powerful case fan, even though that process ends up voiding the PSU's warranty; or by doing both.

Part of the issue with the Zalman CNPS8000's poor performance is that, looking at the photos, two of the four sides are effectively blocked off. This limits the amount of air available for the CNPS8000 even further. The CNPS7700, with its more open design, doesn't suffer from this problem (though its cooling performance is still reduced by the vacuum effect inside the case).

Making things worse is the fact that all three cooling fans inside the case are on the same side -- where the hard drives and the video card are located. Worse, the 80mm side fan -- the one fan that owners of the case often use as their sole intake fan -- is often blocked by the 1-2 hard drives that are in the HD cage, if not by the cage itself.

For CPU coolers, the best options available are the CPU's stock HSF, the CNPS7000, the CNPS7700, the NT03, and the NT06 LITE. The problem is that, even with the "best" options, the temps inside the case will probably be a bit warmer than you'd like. And you should probably forget about overclocking, as that would increase the amount of heat that the CPU produces.
 
Well I am not really going to overclock like hell, but I will put my E4400 BSEL modded chip at 2.66ghz in. This chip will be at stock vcore/fsb/vdimm, so I do not see why a normal 2.66ghz C2D aka 'E6700' will overheat in such an environment. Or am I wrong?
 
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