Help on cooler / heatsink selection (E6700)

[Riden12]

Hi,

I plan on running an Intel Duo 2 2.66 ghz (E6700) but am not planning to OC it. I'm hestitant to use the stock cooler since their normally sub par but I also don't have a need for a top of the line cooler.

Does anyone have any suggestions on a decent cooler that would do better then the stock without the risks that the higher end coolers have(such as weight over top of the conroe restrictions etc)?

Thanks for your help!

 

[tool_462]

I always recommend the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro as a great, inexpensive cooler.

It will even foster a fair OC on your CPU if you ever wanted to.

Otherwise, the stock cooler will do just fine on the E6700, Core 2 Duo run very cool for their performance, at stock speeds it should stay nice and cool.

If you decide to go with the AC Freezer 7 Pro, you can probably run it at 30-50% fan speed and be just fine, at those speeds it is literally silent. I can hear my slow spinning 120mm case fans over it.

 

[Riden12]

Gotcha, I'll check into that one too. I was looking at the Zalman 9500 AT but it was 540g and the chipset max is only 450g. Is that something I should worry about?

Anyone have any other suggestions?

Thanks again!

 

[Granite3]

2nd vote for the AC Freezer 7 pro.

Easy install, quiet, and allows me a good OC on my e6600.

The stock cooler does a good job, just can't stand the thought of "stock".

Silverstone NT does a good job, but smaller fan and a little heavier than the Freezer 7, but both of these require a lot less room than most of the others.

And at $30, hard to beat.

 

[Riden12]

I just checked the AC Freezer 7 pro out and it seems like its over the weight restrition for the clips. I'm a novice at this and am not sure if that's a concern or not. Will it be fragile with the additional weight or doesn't it matter?

Thanks again!

 

[Guest]

I am putting a ~1kg cooler in mine. No biggie!

From my experience, don't get the zalman =), and the AC freezer is well within the weight your motherboard can support.

Only thing that you want to be careful is when you move the computer around, let the computer rest on its side, not upward, as to remove any stress a bump or whatever could do.

 

[minim3]

third vote for Artic Freezer Pro 7!
Perfect for moderate o/c!
There are hsf that weight almost a kg. 70grams over the specified is nothing to be concerned about.

 

[bullaRh]

not for being a pain in the ass or anything but is paying allmost twice the price for 200 mhz worth it when u can OC 2 that speed with E6600 without a sweat?