Heatsinks!

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I ordered a couple of the Noctua 4/8-pipe setups. We'll see how they do.

[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]

Yeah, I did see some of those that were monsters. I was comparing some of the dimensions with my Ultra120 in my linux backup box and the one I picked is slightly smaller than that one. I should be good. Nice thing is the Intel reference boards are very clean in terms of things being out of the way of heatsinks, unlike the Asus/EVGA/etc. that have the monster chipset coolers and such all over the place.

[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.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

rofl...I tucked a few things aside and secured stuff out of the way of fans after I took the pics. Still not sexy but it'll do.

[burningforce]

looks good, might pick the heatsink up when I find a decent full tower to buy.

also I noticed you took the casing off the video card to use a aftermarket cooler, but from the picture I could not see any video card vram heatsinks. Do you use any heatsinks on the video card vram?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

That's the stock heatsink/shroud on that 5850.