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So, I don't have air conditioning, no central air, and no not even a window in my room. I live in Philly. It can get to be 80degrees in my house...

I was looking for ways to keep my cpu cool for overclocking in the summer. Besides a bulky and kinda complicated watercooling setup, which I'm not sure would do so much better anyway, are there any good ways to keep my comp cool for overclocking?

 

build it in a mini fridge with exhaust pipes and fans? lol

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have you looked at the Corsair H50? It's a closed loop liquid cooling set up that seems fairly common with OCers. Find a case with good airflow. Don't know what else to offer...

 

Here's a good sites for you.

 

http://www.frostytech.com/top5heatsinks.cfm

 

http://www.frozencpu.com

 

There are also all-in-one liquid cooling without the complicated setup, just not sure how good they are.

 

Yes case with a good airflow is a must.

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The H50 is not really better than a big air cooler for 1/2 of the money...

 

Yeah, the h50 is $80, but I can't find a comparable fan. I've seen builds with both the Noctua nh d14

and the Titan Fenrir, which was my first choice but appears to be out of stock.

The Tuniq tower is looking pretty good ATM

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Scythe Ninja + Scythe Slip Stream 1200RPM fan

 

probably the best combo for the price, in terms of cooling and noise.

 

I'm still using an original Scythe Ninja with my 3rd build. Pentium D940, then E6750, now Q9400. Couldn't ask for a better cooler (except the version that's to be released soon).

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Scythe Ninja + Scythe Slip Stream 1200RPM fan

 

probably the best combo for the price, in terms of cooling and noise.

 

I'm still using an original Scythe Ninja with my 3rd build. Pentium D940, then E6750, now Q9400. Couldn't ask for a better cooler (except the version that's to be released soon).

 

Yeah I've been researching Scythe because they are topping the frosty site.

are you talking about the original Ninja? there is apparently a few models... the ninja plus blah blah blah

http://www.scythe-usa.com/product/cpu/006/scnj1000p.html

and the Orochi, which is what I'm looking at http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2258

 

I don't know if it will actually fit in my cosmos s 1100 case

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...9-150-_-Product

The cosmos 1000 was remodeled to fit larger heatsinks so you didn't have to take off the side fan... but then heatsinks got larger...

Some of these setups are crazy. People are dropping $200 on fans.

if I want to OC an i7 930 at 3.5 do you think that a nice heatsink and an extra fan for exhaust (or perhaps the video card) will be adequate? To be honest I'm not sure where to put it.

 

I will probably acutally sit my (aluminum) case next to my mini fridge with the door open just to see what happens to the temp

Somehow we don't pay for electricity lol.

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The H50 looks cute, but better heat pipe systems do as well or better for a lower price. Just to say.

Like Thermalright for instance.

 

Not true, my old cooler was a "Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme" and the idle temp was 45 degrees with the H50 its 35

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I would avoid the orochi, and say if you want to do overclocking you might want to go for the Scythe Mugen 2. It's massive, and comes with a great fan as well.

 

The Thermalright TRUE 120 (ultra or not) needs to have a fan on it with good static pressure, as the fins are not spaced out far apart. Most other heatsinks, take for example, the Thermalright HR-01 (plus or not) and it has much wider fin spacing. Wider fin spacing needs less airflow and less pressure to cool well.

 

The temps given by a cooler are also dependent on your mounting style, TIM used (thermal grease) and CPU. not all CPUs put out the same heat, therefore they don't all need the same cooling.

 

The size of the orochi makes it difficult to cool in any case, mostly because of how it must be oriented (fins must be vertical rather than horizontal, so the fans must blow up to the top of the case). This is difficult because in many cases, the northbridge chipset will get in the way, or in some cases, it can even block the top (and sometimes only) PCI-e x16 slot.

 

The Scythe Mugen 2 might be the best for an i7 and overclocking. While there are others such as the Prolimatech Megahalems, it's massive, it's heavy, and it's being bumped down by the Mugen 2, as well as Noctua's new 140mm, IFX knockoff.

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