Best h/s for dualie use?

[woods]

I have been reading and have been noticeing that people have been frequently finding that there h/s will not fit on there boards. I am looking into getting the KD7 master-L board and was wondering if I can get two Volcano 9s to fit?

 

[David]

I have dual Igloo2310 coolers with little or no TIM and 80mm fans and akasa 80->60mm fan adapters. 45 to 50C for CPU1 and 55C to 60C for CPU2.

Getting Akasa 785CU coolers today, I will let you know how they perform.


Basically, any semi-decent coolers should keep temps under 60, but CPU2 will always be 5 to 15C higher than CPU1, if using identical cooling for each CPU.

David

 

[cmcquistion]

For what it's worth, dual SLK-800's, SK-7's, and SK-6+'s fit.

 

[David]

Just got my two Akasa 785CU coolers. Same fans as used on the 2320s, but now a LOT cooler. Temps are 45C and 48C. PC is near silent.

The Akasa HSs are a tight fit for CPU2, and touch on of the black heatsinks on the MSI K7D Master-L. But they are far superior to the Glacialtech coolers.

 

[woods]

whatcauses cpu 2 to always be hotter?

 

[David]

whatcauses cpu 2 to always be hotter?

I think it is because it is nearer the video card.

 

[cmcquistion]

I've heard two things:

It's a chipset issue.

It's because it is closer to the VRM's, which put off heat.



I don't know which one is true, but I suspect the first one.

 

[verbatim]

I got 2 ttvol 7+ and they fit with a bit of a squish. I'm not happy with the temps at 48-54 loaded tho and the noise is horrendas at night. I have to turn down the speed and they get hotter, once I get a job I wanna go water cooling.

 

[CPFitz14]

Hmm... my temps are pretty much dead even. Most of the time both CPUs are the same temp, sometimes fluctuating within 1 degree.

Maybe mine are just weird.

-CPFitz-

 

[nightowl]

Just for the record AX-7s do not fit unless some modding is carried out.

I already had two of them and was not going to buy two new heatsinks.

With a little bit of dremel work they fit fine.

Had I needed to buy heatsinks SLK-800's would have been my choice.

 

[SiGmA_X]

I am using two modded AX-7's that I got from some of my friends who upgraded One of them upgraded to water, one to my SLK-900-U which wouldn't fit at all, or at least not un-modded. And it's such a nice HSF, I couldn't mod it

 

[kaltag]

Water here...look in sig. I got volcano 5s to fit for what that's worth. and the sk-7 will fit the tyan 2460.

 

[Xtc4u]

I got dual swiftech MCX 462+ H/Ss to work just fine here.

 

[SickBoy]

I have one SK6 with a Papst 33 CFM fan and one Millenium Glaciator II and interestingly enough, my temps run about equal....

 

[OSUmaxx]

I'm using 2 SLK-800s. Both work very well and keep the temps close together. The temp sensor on the K7d is erratic though.

 

[ElectroSoldier]

I've figured that my Supermicro 370TDE6 will only really use a Zalman CNPS-6000 Cu as the sockets are side by side and allow little or no overhang to the socket sides