What do you use for CPU cooling?

[karl_eller]

Bored and curious, I'm wondering what people are using to keep their various rigs cool and running.

My desktop is under water (FuZion and an MCR320, shared with an 8800GTX + MCW30), the server is currently sitting under a Thermalright SI-128, and I'm yet to decide what the Wolfdale will be using, although a Xigmatek HDT-D1284 sounds tempting (I like top-down coolers 'cause of the extra airflow where the mobo needs it).

Eller

[jcool]

Phase
And water, of course
I hate air, even my HTPC is watercooled, and that one sits in a Silverstone LC17 Desktop case

[emuexport]

NH-U12 on Server and Triton-75 on HTPC both with Noctua 120mm fans Only clocked to 3.2GHz atm

If only our dollar hadnt crashed then all my pcs would be under Water!

emu

[Jaco]

I like water very much , but I prefer aircooling .

Less complicated , less expensive and todays cpu's don't produce that much heat . Don't know about Nehalem , but 45nm Wolfies/Yorkies don't need water.

Brings me to my next question : is there a s1366 waterblock available yet ?

[VOID WARRANTY]

apogee GTZ...danger den black ice extreme 2x120mm with 2 110cfm fans on it...swiftech 317 gph pump..distillid water and petra tech nuke..never gets over 48c on prime 95 and includes watching you tube vids and posting at extreme systems at same time

[[XC] mysticmerlin]

on the 4 Q6600's I have
2x OCZ Vendetta2
1x TRUE w/ Y-L Med fan onboard
1x Thermaltake Silent Tower w/ screaming loud fan.

Every thing else is a mac or stock around here.

[Sparky]

My main rig is under water on a fuzion v1 with an MCR320 in the same loop as my 4870 on a MCW60.
fold1, fold2, and fold4 are on stock heatsinks.
fold3 is on a stock quad heatpipe sink from a s939 dual core opteron.
fold5 is on an old thermaltake volcano 7 with a higher speed NMB fan (and it still runs pretty darn hot lol)
fold6 is on the original Arctic Cooling freezer 64 with a worn fan bearing (need to replace it soon but not sure with what)
fold7 is on some random generic aluminum sink that is larger than stock and uses a random 80mm fan pulled from an old PSU

[Kayin]

Wife's is on a Scythe monstrosity, works real well. Oldest daughter's is a stock quad heatsink, mine looks like it will be my modded RBX and I still have to get one to run my other daughter's rig with. In fact, we can't even get them locally, how crappy is that?

[Sparky]

What CPU does your daughter's rig have, what kind of sink do you need?

[Kayin]

E2140. I'm out of stock sinks, cause I never order anything with a sink...

[HuffPCair]

I am all air. I got the antec 900 and right now I have the Tuniq 120 tower. It works pretty well, but I have been looking at water cooling so I may start going that way one of these days.

[64dragon]

on my quad i'm using a thermalright ultima 90 with the TRUE X retention bracket

[Martijn]

I am using a CNPS9500 on the quad and a half-height C2D stock cooler on my P4 630.

[jcool]

I like water very much , but I prefer aircooling .

Less complicated , less expensive and todays cpu's don't produce that much heat . Don't know about Nehalem , but 45nm Wolfies/Yorkies don't need water.

Brings me to my next question : is there a s1366 waterblock available yet ?

Yeah, the Aquacomputer Cuplex XT is already available with an LGA1366 mounting here in Germany. The Watercool Heatkiller 3,0 will follow shortly (finally a new HK for the CPU).
Apart from these, the GTZ is my favourite since the mounting looks great.

[Bobsama]

Scythe Infinity on mine. It's a monster: I had to buy a new case ($50) to fit it.

[illidan]

TRUE with Scythe S-Flex

[jcool]

Aircooling ain't extreme, what are you all doing here

Seriously, you know why I hate aircoolers? They are so big that you ALWAYS run into space issues. Or if they fit, it's so close that you can hardly (un)mount them without breaking a finger

[Martijn]

Aircooling ain't extreme, what are you all doing here

Seriously, you know why I hate aircoolers? They are so big that you ALWAYS run into space issues. Or if they fit, it's so close that you can hardly (un)mount them without breaking a finger

Get a TJ07

[jcool]

Gee thanks, I have build around 50 rigs based on the TJ07 this year.. can't see it any more

[G.Foyle]

TRU-120 non extreme with 2x 1200 rpm push-pull fans.

Air cooling ain't extreme, huh? Try mounting a TRU-120 on a GeForce 8400 GS and earning a gold cup on HWBot, than say that again

[Mr_Slinky]

Scythe Ninja Q9450 @3.3GH will be putting my WC gear back on it after hunting season
stock on Q6600 @2.85GH B3 stepping (G0 on the way)
stock on E6600 @ 2.63 max the board will do
Scythe Shrunken on Q6700 @2.9 max the board will do

[D_A]

OCZ Vendetta2 on a s939 Opty 185 @2.86 (gets flaky if I go higher regardless of voltage)

[jcool]

Air cooling ain't extreme, huh? Try mounting a TRU-120 on a GeForce 8400 GS and earning a gold cup on HWBot, than say that again

Mounting a CPU heatsink (tower-style no less) on a GPU that doesn't even need it excluded

[Aerou]

all my quads are cooled with Xigmatek HDT-S1284 (Achilles) or EKL Groß Glockner with Panaflo 38mm fans. Both of them keep the 3,6GHz Q6600 @ 1,37V around 55 degrees

Karl, the HDT-D has quite low performance sadly, edespite the good looking concept

[kevinbo03]

I like water, Though I've only got my desktop under water because of the costs associated with it. MCR320, Fuzion 1 w/ nozzle, MCW60, On my Q66 and 8800GT all powered by a DDC3.1 and Yate Loon D12SL's at 7volts. Very quiet!

I want to put my x3350 cruncher under a used fuzion, Db-1 and MCR120, Maybe 220. Waiting for some more money to flow in.

Everything else is on air. the x3350 is on stock intel cooling at the moment, the s939 X2 is on a XP-90, great heatsink. My Brother's E6600 is under a copper XP-90, works very well. My P4, A64, And XP are all using stock heatsinks. They require dusting once a week since they are in the basement, the XP-90 is down there two but has filters in the case so It doesn't need dusting as often.