Well, I am up and running but I did not do any tests yet. I want to let it run for a few hours before I decide to run tests. I did not wait for a LGA1366 bracket. Instead I remembered that the difference in the hole spacing between LGA775 and LGA1366 is very minor so I just made some minor adjustments to the LGA775 bracket by applying some force in the right spots. It works like a charm
Now, this guy is 6 TECs, 72W each, so rated for 432W. It performs quite well so far. At 60% (basically inaudible) fan the idle temps are around 27C - 29C. I did not burn it in yet, as I want to get a few hours of it running before I decide to push the CPU and the cooler. However, considering that this managed to adequately cool a QX9770 running at 1.62V and 4.5GHz I think it will do just fine here.
The fan gets noisy past 90% (just tried it), so I will personally likely cap the fan at 90% and make do with what that gets me.
I like it so far though. Quite a bit cooler than air. So far, about 15C-20C less under normal load with the fan running at low speeds in my warm room. Air required me to control the room temps as well in order to be able to keep the OC stable, as under longer LinX runs when the room is normal temperature (23C) temps get up to 96C in Vista 64-bit which is unhealthy. I had to keep my room below 16C to keep the temps below 90C on air at 1.4V 4.2GHz for longer LinX runs.
I'll update with more results later
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