Strongest air cooling for c2d?

Hi all,

I'm putting together the stuff to build my first new machine in about 5 years. I'm going core 2 duo this time, using an e6300. I want to stick with air cooling, but I want the best or very close to it. I don't mind fan noise within reason. What cooler and fan should I be shopping for?

By the way, is this cooler very good? Newegg is offering it as a package deal with the motherboard I plan on running, but I'll pass on the cooler if it's not at or near the top performance-wise.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835193001

You can get much better cooling than that combo offer.

The best air cooling on the market right now is probably the Tuniq Tower 120.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835154001

tuniq can be bought for cheaper at many places

http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=tuniq+tower+120&btnG=Search+Froogle&lmode=online&scoring=p

ultra 120 is also good along with the infinity but the mount sucks on the infinity.

I've never seen that Asus heatsink before but I will also go with Surfrider77 and say for you to buy another, more proven brand. The Tuniq Tower 120 is a great choice, as is the Thermalright Ultra 120 and the Thermaltake Big Typhoon (with a better fan than the included one for the original BT). If you are space limited in your case the Thermalright XP90-C with a 92mm Delta 3 blade high speed is also a very good choice too.

Ok, thanks folks. I just ordered the tuniq tower from xoxide.com. They were the cheapest I could easily find that had it in stock. Many places did not have it. Total cost including shipping is $62.84-not a bad deal apparently.

thats about what I paid for mine

You can't imagine how much I look forward to getting the new system built and running. My current setup is an athlon xp running at 2305 mhz. It's no slouch, but it's just not in the same league as what you can build now. Here's a comparison of what I'm planning on building vs what I have now:

Now building
CPU athlon xp @ 2305 6300 c2d at ~ 3400 mhz
Mem 1.5 GB ddr@ 200 Mhz 2 GB ddr2@ ~ 525 mhz
HDD 2 ide 7200 rpm drives 4 matrix raid 0/10 perp drives
video geforce 7800 gs o/c unknown yet

As you can see, the hard drive throughput will be multiplied by approximately 4 and maybe a bit more since I'll be putting the raid 0 part on the fastest part of the drives. The difference in cpu power speaks for itself, same on the memory. All of this running xp pro-it ought to be pretty responsive.

With the ultra 120 you can possibly go passive =). or you can get a yate loon and just use that. i get about 41 with a yate loon on it, and about 50 passive (load) Though since you inquired for the strongest heatsink, ultra 120 works well a strong fan. So getting a u120 with a panaflo fan like this one http://svc.com/fba12g12u.html you will get super low temps. Then again you might go deaf =). (be careful that fan is sharp! believe me, my toe hates that fan! lol)

I use a yate in my Tuniq with great results and no noise.

I use stock fan with tuniq tower on my C2D rig, and the temperatures are great.

I also just bought a TT120, and all I can say is it works great. Temps are awesome, it does get a little noisy if you crank it up, but my pc was already really loud so there wasn't much of a change.

Hrrmmm why dont we all just wait a moment for this brick?

http://www.coolermaster-europe.com/...H-ANU2-GP&other_title=+RR-CCH-ANU2-GP+GeminII

in 5 years??? ur gonna build it in 5 years???