advice on CPU cooler - tuniq tower?

[TexasVol]

Ok, here is my situation. I am a first time OC'er who is putting together a Q6600 system. I'm having trouble choosing the right cooler.

Right now I am buying a mostly-built system from AVAdirect. They offer the TuniqTower, but it is pretty pricey.

I have seen advice for Thermalright HT 1200 and Ultra 120 Extreme as excellent coolers, but neither is offered in the system config.

Should I pay the big bucks for the TuniqTower? Choose something else from the list? Buy the system without the cooler and get a cooler later?

config so far:
# ANTEC, Performance One P180 Silver Mid Tower Computer Case, ATX, 450W PSU
# ASUS, P5K Deluxe/WiFi-AP, LGA775, Intel P35
# INTEL, Core 2 Duo Q6600 Quad-Core, 2.4GHz

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# TUNIQ, Tower 120 CPU Cooler, Socket 478/775/754/939/940/AM2, Aluminum

# MUSHKIN, 2GB (2 x 1GB) eXtreme Performance PC2-6400 DDR2 800MHz w/ EPP CL4 (4-4-3-10)
# SEAGATE, 320GB Barracuda 7200.10, SATA II 300MB/s, 7200-RPM, 16MB cache
# LINKSKEY, LKA-CR15B Black Internal 19-in-1 Card Reader/Writer Drive, 3.5" Bay, USB
# MICROSOFT, Windows Vista Home Premium Edition 32-bit, OEM

 

[cd14]

It'll be tough overclocking and holding the heat back on the quads. They put out a lot of heat. My Q6600 rev. B3 is at 3.2 ghz and it's putting out 75c (100% all cores) at the hottest core. I was using a p180 and cooling it with both a Nautilus 500 and a Ultra 120 Extreme. The Ultra 120 was a little better than the Nautilus by about 2 degrees.

I'm using a DS3 and it's having issues keeping up with the Q6600--the motherboard gets over 210F when overclocking. If I don't have a fan pointing at the voltage regs...it gives up.

The Ultra 120 Exteme is very nice...very well made and works great, but when I got mine I had to lap it because the base was a bit rounded.