best heatsink for the money?

[Gangs]

i want to clock one of my DLT jiuhbs to 2300 or 2200, also want them to be stable to play games with, not gona overclock them till its nessary. so what its a good heat sink for the money? i was looking at the HHC-001 coolermaster for 23 bucks? good?

[BrainStorm]

Check here under "Air Cooling DIE Simulator C/W TEST RESULTS" (that's where the Socket A results are).

http://www.overclockers.com/articles373/

ThermalRight pretty much rules the roost. Get either the SLK-900 (most expensive), SLK-800 (in the middle expense wise), or SK-7 (cheapest). That's also the order in which they cool.

[gobbo]

Yepo, SLk range gets my vote too!

Unless you wanna go watercooling that is ;)

[Royal Oaks]

I'd say for the money the SK-7 is the best. That is why I got it. Might seem a little biased, but the difference in temps from the SLK-800 to SK-7 is no more than 2C.

[NeverSleeps]

I'm very happy with my SLK-800a. If you are noise-sensitive, don't get a tornado.

[Susquehannock]

Originally posted by Royal Oaks
I'd say for the money the SK-7 is the best. That is why I got it. Might seem a little biased, but the difference in temps from the SLK-800 to SK-7 is no more than 2C.


Agreed. The SK-7 is the best for your money.
The SLK-900 is over twice as expensive but only cools a few
degrees more.


Thermalright seems to be having trouble with quality control lately though.:(

[BrainStorm]

Yeah, I have an SLK-800 on my main rig and an SK-7 on the back-up. Guess I ought to try thr SK-7 on the main rig and check the difference in cooling. But according to overclockers.com there isn't much difference.

[Holst]

I recon the Sk7 is hard to beat for value.

Plus its not quite as heavy so you can move your PC without tearing the socket off the board

[FragBuckler]

another vote for the SK7

[felix88]

i also agree, SK7.

you could go with an Aeroflow as well, i hear they cool pretty good.

[makatee]

You can get the Alpha Pal 8045 with a fan for like 45 bux online, but like the others have said, the sk7 is nice.

[Snoodge]

If cost is a factor the only choice is the ThermalRight SK7... It will perform within 1.5-2 degrees if not less than that of an SLK800/900 and will only cost you $25 on Directron or other websites im sure...

[BrainStorm]

Originally posted by Snoodge
If cost is a factor the only choice is the ThermalRight SK7... It will perform within 1.5-2 degrees if not less than that of an SLK800/900 and will only cost you $25 on Directron or other websites im sure...

$20 at www.svc.com last I checked.

[Snoodge]

good call brainstorm! thanks!

[Andrew LB]

Another vote for the SK-7. The difference in temp between the $20 sk-7 and my $30+ SLK-800 is like 1-2'c.

[Susquehannock]

That price on the SK-7 at SVC is a good deal.:thumbsup:



Originally posted by Snoodge
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
an SLK800/900 and will only cost you $25 on Directron or other websites im sure...


Nah, the SLK-800 is $45 at Directron.com. They are
priced similar at NewEgg.com as well.

BestByte.net has the SLK-800 is $34. HERE (http://www.bestbyte.net/Product.cfm?ProductID=1195&CategoryID=6&Keyword=slk%2D800)

The best part is, they have a $5 flat charge on shipping.
As many items as you want, just five dollars.:cool:
BestByte.net has great prices on cables and fans too.

[MentholMoose]

To all the thermalright heatsink owners, how smooth was the surface that touches the CPU core when you bought it? I always lap my heatsinks, but the thermalright heatsinks I've bought were borderline unusable before lapping. I have a couple SK6's and they were very rough, desparately needing to be lapped because they were so rough.

I recently bought a SLK800 and besides being very rough, it wasn't even close to being flat! Lapping it flat would've taken 5+ mm off of it so I returned it, and the replacement was not much better. This lack of flatness made lapping it by hand (wet sanding) take a lot longer. Is this typical of thermalright or just an isolated incident?

[felix88]

my SK6 had a pretty flat base, but not a mirror finish like some people prefer.

[BrainStorm]

I didn't have it that bad, but both my SLK-800 and SK-7 needed lapping. Machine gooves to the max. :(