Cooling for socket 1156?

**RPGWiZaRD** · 09-09-2009, 07:40 AM

What do you think is currently the best choice for 1156 by the limited choices that exist (also with mounting bracket kits included which are not available on any sites yet it seems).

I have a hard time finding any interesting, only CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Plus, Zalman CNPS10X Extreme and a few other cheap/poor performing coolers. I know Xigmatek will offer Socket 1156 brackets but they aren't available yet and same goes for Noctua which is rather expensive option though. I'm welcome to options for up to around 50 EUR.

I'll prolly use stock cooler until some decent option becomes available or mounting kits for the better products that exist already.

**nemesis2all** · 09-09-2009, 12:23 PM

I believe the best option available for that price range would be the H50. From what i've read it supports 1156 with a new revision. Is very hard to find a decent cooler tho. I'm waiting for the Thermalright mux 120.

**RPGWiZaRD** · 09-09-2009, 12:34 PM

I dunno but I'm not that interested in H50 but I'm interested in both the Thermalright MUX 120 (mainly cuz price/performance is prolly gonna be great) but especially the Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme which has just about now started appearing on some US and UK sites. Just need to find a source where I could get it roughly for <15 EUR or so in shipping cost and it will take ages b4 it arrives in Finland and then cost like 55-57 EUR vs some 41-42 in Germany...

Any1 know of such european sites, ireland, uk, german, nl or whatever that are specialized in cooling products hence, offering a bit lower shipping costs than the typical 30 EUR german hardware sites charge for shipping to Finland. I used to know some UK site but forgot it's name.

**RPGWiZaRD** · 09-10-2009, 08:09 AM

What do you think about a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2? Yes I know lol it would only be temporarly used because it seems like I'll have to wait a while until being able to pick up any reasonable cooler here in Finland. At least the Arctic Cooling costs only 18,90 EUR and should be way better than intel stock cooler. Would it be able to handle i7-860 @ 4GHz? I'm prolly gonna pick it up anyway cuz it looks easily moddable for push-pull and I'm not using a comp case and will stack a bunch of extra fans to help cool the CPU socket area if need be. The included 92mm fan seems rather reasonable going up to 2500rpm.

I remember seeing some1 clocking a i7-750 to 4GHz+ with one in another thread at least.

**nemesis2all** · 09-10-2009, 09:15 AM

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 rev. 2 might be my second choice if the Thermalright mux 120 dosen't fit. I would like to see how AC stacks up against the coolermaster tx3.

I worry about the fan clips on the thermalright touching my graphichs card if I were to mount it east to west. My motherboard is the gigabyte p55m-ud4 and space to mount a big cooler seems like it might be a concern.

**wondergod** · 09-10-2009, 09:31 AM

Coolermaster has a retention bracket that fits most of their newer coolers. Its not here in the US yet but you should be able to get it at the website below.

V8
V10
Hyper Z600
Hyper Z600R
Hyper N620
Hyper N520
Hyper 212
GeminII S

http://www.coolermaster.nl/shop/prod...roducts_id=540

**RPGWiZaRD** · 09-10-2009, 09:43 AM

Well none of those are really that impressive. V8 is the best choice out of those (V10 being too expensive) but we all know it's not really as good as it looks. BTW Hyper 212 Plus is already very widely available and has 1156 support. But this cooler costs like 25 EUR.... so not expecting a lot of performance from it either but should have relatively great cost/performance ratio I suppose.

But there's a possibility I'll concider this cooler as well and keep it for a while until there's new very interesting coolers out.