EsaT
08-13-2006, 03:19 AM
I know tower style coolers would be most efficient but unlike reviewers I intend to use motherboard in normal position inside case and for longer time than overclocking attempts take so stress/torgue caused to motherboard by long towers doesn't feel so tempting. Also tower coolers with "boxed" airflow going parallel to motherboard and past it wouldn't cool area around CPU socket so easily.
Processor will be Conroe E6600 and amount of overclocking would be what is achievable without big voltage increases.
Thermalright's new SI-128 would be apparently very good but its availability is about same as that of honest politicians.
Zalman is apparently very effective with fan at high RPMs but noise level wouldn't be good and at lower RPMs cooling capability apparently drops such amount that according to SPCR Thermalright XP-120 (SI-120 should be better than it according to one review with both of those) would give equal cooling with less noise while Thermalright apparently works very well with low speed fan... and 12cm fan at low speed still moves nice amount of air and less densely packed fins should allow easy airflow.
Also Thermaltake Big Typhoon is very similar but its weight is over 2x that of Thermalright (can plain fan add that much weight?), basing to few tests it shouldn't be any better than SI-120 and pics in company's site suggest its fins are quite densely packed which might slightly hinder airflow with lower speed fan.
Processor will be Conroe E6600 and amount of overclocking would be what is achievable without big voltage increases.
Thermalright's new SI-128 would be apparently very good but its availability is about same as that of honest politicians.
Zalman is apparently very effective with fan at high RPMs but noise level wouldn't be good and at lower RPMs cooling capability apparently drops such amount that according to SPCR Thermalright XP-120 (SI-120 should be better than it according to one review with both of those) would give equal cooling with less noise while Thermalright apparently works very well with low speed fan... and 12cm fan at low speed still moves nice amount of air and less densely packed fins should allow easy airflow.
Also Thermaltake Big Typhoon is very similar but its weight is over 2x that of Thermalright (can plain fan add that much weight?), basing to few tests it shouldn't be any better than SI-120 and pics in company's site suggest its fins are quite densely packed which might slightly hinder airflow with lower speed fan.