Asrock P67 Extreme4 UEFI & Drivers thread [Extreme6 & Pro3 owners welcome]

[Ket]

That's a personal preference. I'm using NH-D14 and it is worth every penny to me.
Since I did not want to spend $250 for modular liquid cooling system, D14 works great and no need for any maintenance except for just cleaning the fans.
I used to have 212+ and D14 gave me 10c drop compared to it.
The temp never go passes 80c in LinX w/AVX 6600MB (ALL) run now.

Here is where my point especially is most prominent about absurd prices for some components. A Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus is £16. A Noctua NH-D14 (best price I can find) is £68. The question is; is that 10c drop in temp worth that extra £52? Thats not even a 0.2c temperature improvement each £1 spent.

I think AMD and Intel have to realise its time to stop slapping on the IHS the cheapest way possible. Put it on properly and CPU temps would be quite a bit better. Even right now typing this I'm running some tests and 3 cores average 61c while the 4th core averages 69c. Thats just poor IHS mounting and as Intel don't even have the curtosy to just use TIM under the IHS for skilled folk to make use of a razor blade to skillfully take the IHS off and remount it, I'm stuck with that piss-poor temp on core #1 and nomatter what cooling I use, that delta is always going to be around 9c.