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- Mar 31, 2011
Greetings, I'm nightdreamer i decided to register here, mostly due to i was looking for a place where, I could find affordable solutions for replacing my Blue orb 2 Cpu cooler with one that will reduce my temps down to at least 30c My blue orb 2 is currently running at 50-53c (idle) 60-73c (20% load), this is after a recent bio's update to my XFX 780I mother board before the update it was still fairly high (46-48c idle, 60-65c (load)
My ram was running at 800 mhz, i decided i would try 1066 my ram was rated at 1200 mhz but earlier, i made the fatal mistake on over clocking to 1220 and well it did not post (fixed that by resetting the cmos)
But this might be the cause a few extra degrees in cpu temp but my cpu fan is failing anyway, so might as well replace it with a better suited cpu cooler for overclocking, I'm looking into new cpu coolers to lower my temps down to a fairly low level while allowing me to overclock my cpu to at least 3.1 (rather then 2.66)
Currently here is some cooling selections, i have considered but i'm not fully updated on the recently released or new coolers in 2010-11, the socket type of my motherboard is LGA 775 my cpu is q9450.
My case is the XCLIO A380, so far the air flow is pretty good for this case.
Now for the short list of cpu coolers, i was thinking of.
XIGMATEK Dark Knight, seems like a pretty good replacement for my cpu cooler but kind of researching about it. there might be better air cpu coolers for lower or same price?
Prolimatech Megahalems Rev.B CPU Cooler, Quite expensive, huge but i do have a tower case, so it should fit. (plus, i can't risk getting a uneven cooler reported in some reviews)
I would love to see some alternates to this cpu fan that are suited for overclocking as the Megahalems a bit pricy and I'm unsure on the dark knight as well, i did read some reviews on it but i have not read anything about more recent cpu coolers.
ok, lets wrap this up I hope you can give me some recommendations to consider rather then the 2 coolers, I'm looking at but so far leaning towards to dark knight :0
My ram was running at 800 mhz, i decided i would try 1066 my ram was rated at 1200 mhz but earlier, i made the fatal mistake on over clocking to 1220 and well it did not post (fixed that by resetting the cmos)
But this might be the cause a few extra degrees in cpu temp but my cpu fan is failing anyway, so might as well replace it with a better suited cpu cooler for overclocking, I'm looking into new cpu coolers to lower my temps down to a fairly low level while allowing me to overclock my cpu to at least 3.1 (rather then 2.66)
Currently here is some cooling selections, i have considered but i'm not fully updated on the recently released or new coolers in 2010-11, the socket type of my motherboard is LGA 775 my cpu is q9450.
My case is the XCLIO A380, so far the air flow is pretty good for this case.
Now for the short list of cpu coolers, i was thinking of.
XIGMATEK Dark Knight, seems like a pretty good replacement for my cpu cooler but kind of researching about it. there might be better air cpu coolers for lower or same price?
Prolimatech Megahalems Rev.B CPU Cooler, Quite expensive, huge but i do have a tower case, so it should fit. (plus, i can't risk getting a uneven cooler reported in some reviews)
I would love to see some alternates to this cpu fan that are suited for overclocking as the Megahalems a bit pricy and I'm unsure on the dark knight as well, i did read some reviews on it but i have not read anything about more recent cpu coolers.
ok, lets wrap this up I hope you can give me some recommendations to consider rather then the 2 coolers, I'm looking at but so far leaning towards to dark knight :0
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