Heatsinks!

[MiRai]

have you looked into the cooler master hyper 212+? It is not that wide but i somewhat tall, so should check clearance before buying.

it comes with a PWM fan, although not sure how good it is as I do not use it, I use another fan.
Seems to cool sandy bridge cpu's quite well and if you stay under 4.7Ghz overclock, then the heatsink should work great.

here is the heatink webpage http://www.coolermaster-usa.com/prod...roduct_id=2923

if you do plan on getting it, be aware that this is a $29.99 heatsink tops. Newegg used to sell this heatsink for this much, but when it become a cheap alternative to higher priced heatsinks, they decided to raise the price to around $40+.

I just checked newegg and it seems the price is $32.99 shipped as of right now. So I would read around and see what you would like to get based on your needs and performance.

Have heard good things about the H212+ myself.

Only thing I do not like is after you mount everything and the heatsink is on the cpu and secured, the heatsink seems to be easily turned. This is not a huge problem if you install and do not mess with it. I however like to mess around in my machine installing/uninstalling and moving stuff around. I sometimes bump the heatsink and it turns a little, I just turn it back the right way and it seems fine.

As far as I know... most, if not all, big gigantic heat sinks move after being mounted in place. My Venomous-X,
Zalman 9500, and whatever other one I had back in the day all moved if they were bumped or messed with.
If you could apply enough pressure in order to keep the heatsink from moving... I'm guessing you'd either
damage the CPU or crack the motherboard.

[burningforce]

Have heard good things about the H212+ myself.

As far as I know... most, if not all, big gigantic heat sinks move after being mounted in place. My Venomous-X,
Zalman 9500, and whatever other one I had back in the day all moved if they were bumped or messed with.
If you could apply enough pressure in order to keep the heatsink from moving... I'm guessing you'd either
damage the CPU or crack the motherboard.

I used a tuniq tower 120 extreme and it never moved, at least not as much as the hyper 212+. But like I said if you are not tinkering in the computer every second like me :P, it should be a decent cooler. Yes the hyper is a great cooler, i mainly bought it because it was smaller then the tuniq and I can now reach the 8pin power connector on my motherboard. But I am very happy with the performance for the price I paid for it, especially combining it with some MX-2 thermal paste.

sounds good Ughmahedhurtz.Although I do hear the noctua setups are huge, but can not be as big as the silver arrow, that thing is a monster

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Update: Noctua NH-U12P's came in today. Push/pull fan setup. VERY solid mount bracket. Overall build quality is super. Even comes with two in-line resistor adapters (to step down the fan to lower speeds for quiet operation) and a pigtail adapter to run both fans off the CPU header.

As far as I know... most, if not all, big gigantic heat sinks move after being mounted in place. My Venomous-X,
Zalman 9500, and whatever other one I had back in the day all moved if they were bumped or messed with.
If you could apply enough pressure in order to keep the heatsink from moving... I'm guessing you'd either
damage the CPU or crack the motherboard.

This one absolutely Does. Not. Move. I wish everyone went to this type of mount. My previous heat sinks have twisted as well but this sucker is rock solid; I have no qualms about picking up the motherboard with it.



Big metal baseplate with high-density foam rubber feet.



It does take up most of the space between the video card and PSU in a mid-tower case, though.



CPU temps went WAY down, though. The stock coolers for 2600K's are pure shit, IMO. Both of mine were sitting at 75-82C running Rift at high settings (main) or on the 4-client alt PC. At stock clock settings even. With the Noctua installed, neither PC goes over about 48-50C under full load and they sit at 31-34C browsing the web and such. Very happy so far.

Much better than the stock setup.

[MiRai]

Nice, dude.

Now we've gotta work on that cable management.