Case cooling and cpu

[russmet]

I think I have poor case cooling and I know stock fan is not cutting it. I have Corsair 600T case. I7 960 CPU. This is my first build and I'm looking for ideas for case cooling and a good CPU cooler for overclocking. This will be my first overclocking attemp. MY idle temp is 46C.

I7 960 CPU, cosiar 750 watt. Cosiar SATAIII 60g SSD with windows 7 ultimate 64 BIT AND 1 TERABYTE SATAIII HDD, GTX 580 GPU, ASUS P6X58D-E MOTHERBOARD, cosair 600t case, Cosair dominator 1600 12gig.

 

[King107s]

The case is fairly well ventilated already, you could upgrade the 120mm fan to something with a bit more flow like the Aerocool Shark 120mm fan (nice balance between speed, flow, and noise). Just get a decent cpu cooler and youll be good to go.

Oh and FYI, the idle temp is not important, you need to know the load temp after say 30minutes of Prime95....

 

[Bobnova]

That's not a bad idle temp for an i7 960 on the stock cooler.
Those chips are toasty little buggers.

Get yourself a nice chunky CPU cooler and see how things go.

 

[russmet]

Thanks for the replies. I will stick with the stock case cooling. I thought it was not that good because my old computer (DELL) sounded like a helicoptor. AS for a cpu cooler, my cash range i want to spend is 100 to 150$. Should i go air cooler or water cooled like a h70. I do want to venture into overclocking after this.