Best cooling money can buy without going water or LN

[teffmyster 0]

I'm thinking of purchasing a 2600K for my future build. What would be the best heatsink/cooler that I could buy, I don't mind about the price as long as its not too loud.

 

Also, what would be an ideal overclock on the cpu through the multiplier and without raising voltages.

 

Regards

T

Edited August 28, 2011 by teffmyster

[Dasa 244]

Thermalright Archon http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers/d...ght-archon.html

2600k should do around 4.1 to 4.5ghz fairly easy with ~1.25-1.3v

[teffmyster 0]

So to get 4.1 I'd have to change the voltage?

[Harmonic Cacophony 0]

To get really good, stable overclocks, you always have to bump the voltage at least a little. A good cooler will keep things from getting too hot.

[teffmyster 0]

Dam, was hoping it was as easy as setting the multiplier to 40.

[Harmonic Cacophony 0]

You might be able to, I haven't OCd that chip. And every individual chip handles OCs slightly differently, so if you've got a really good one, you'll get a bit more out of it with a bit less volts. Just give it a shot once you've got a cooler, raising the voltage a small amount will only change the temps by a few degrees anyway. Just keep going til you get the biggest OC you can with temps and noise you're comfortable with.

[Electr0 0]

Thermalright Archon

So that's the new raining king, over the TRUE?

[Harmonic Cacophony 0]

Most decent air coolers nowadays seem to do better than the TRUE, actually. It was king for a long time, but now there's a lot choice.

[Electr0 0]

Most decent air coolers nowadays seem to do better than the TRUE, actually. It was king for a long time, but now there's a lot choice.

:'(

 

*sniff* *sniff*

 

EDIT: Oh wow! Just saw this: Picture 1 Picture 2

 

That thing is huuuuuuuuuuge!

Edited August 28, 2011 by Electr0

[NukeJockey 4]

Dam, was hoping it was as easy as setting the multiplier to 40.

It is.

 

Just leave the voltage on auto, at 4ghz it shouldnt push it too high, but just remember that fine tuning your settings will get you a better OC.

 

For example, after a lot of fucking around mine is stable at 4.2ghz with 1.24v when vdrooping under load.

[Dasa 244]

So to get 4.1 I'd have to change the voltage?

i doubt it since ~1.25v is stock but there is dud chips out there that wont do so well

can depend on your mb and how big its vdrop is to

 

 

Electr0 you think thats big take a look at

thermalright silver arrow

noctua nh-d14

Prolimatech Genesis

 

thermalright hr02

 

or perhaps this thing which is just insane

Edited August 28, 2011 by Dasa

[A Hitman 0]

What about vapour phase cooling?!

Prob out of your budget though.

[mark84 30]

I was gonna say, phase change or peltier or something, but I'm guessing that's not what OP was wanting.

 

Should've said HSF in subject title :)

[Periander 0]

I've got a D14 on my 2600K, I run @ ~4.5GHz permanently.