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3/29/2013 10:29:11 PM
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PC Building Help - CPU Heatsink
So I built a PC and decided to use the stock Intel heatsink (since I don't over clock). While cooling-wise it's fine, the thing is a jumbo jet. I can't stand it. I'm looking to replace it, but I noticed my motherboad (ASRock Extreme 4) doesn't really offer a lot of space.
Does anyone know of a good, cheap cooler that would fit in on that board? The stock cooler is pretty much taking up all the available space so it pretty much can't be bigger than that.
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I decided to just get the Arctic Cooler AP7. It's basically like the stock cooler, except it cools slightly better but it supposed to be much quieter. It was about $10 and thermal paster is pre-applied (which I like). Thanks for the help guys! I was moments away from getting a Corsair H50, but realized I was paying $60 for cooling I didn't need and I wasn't thrilled about the prospect of having water inside my system.
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1 ReplyEdited by VerticalGradient: 3/29/2013 11:22:25 PMI'm assuming that it's [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157283]this one[/url], a micro ATX. I have an [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130275]msi ATX[/url] motherboard, with a [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835118223]92mm Zalman cooler[/url]. I keep it at the lowest (~ 1300) RPM and it's fairly quiet . . . I'd say about the noise-level that a 2009 Xbox 360 would make when not playing a game. Slightly less than that. It's difficult to judge when I have four other case fans. And it functions well enough. I'm not the most tech-minded person, but I think it's around 50C. My PC's yet to catch on fire. The question would probably be whether it would fit in your PC. 92mm is quite large, but as you can see it [i]is[/i] an inch or two of space between the cooler's edge and the motherboard's surface, due to its circular shape. Referring to my MSI board, I have four sticks of that really popular 2GB Gskill RAM on the right-side of the cooler (the cooler's oriented with the fanblades parallel to the top 120mm PC case fan. The 92mm blows air into the 120mm, which blows air out of the case). There's a centimeter or two of space between the cooler's edges and the edge of the closest RAM stick. It'd be easier with a side-view picture of the inside of your PC.
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Corsair H100?
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4 RepliesCPU heatsink is just liquid.... Unless you mean the fan?
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Edited by neyo245: 3/29/2013 10:38:46 PMOn second thought nvm it won't fit.
