• Which CPU cooler should I get?
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I just received my payment, so I was thinking to get a DECENT CPU cooler for my AMD phenom II X6 1055T. Cause this cheap alloy block is noisy as hell and barely does the job. ANYWAYS, I have been looking at the Cooler Master Hyper TX3 EVO, is it any good, if not, which CPU cooler is the best to get on a low budget line? My budget is about 35 euros. I highly appreciate anyone's help!
Cooler Master Hyper 212+ Evo is a really good heatsink, it is around $30 too, with 35 euros, you could buy a 120mm fan and make the heatsink a push/pull configuration.
Totally agree. The CM Hyper 212+ is the best choice for a good and cheap heatsink.
The hyper TX3 also has possibilities for a push/pull configuration though
The CM Hyper has that too! :)
The problem with the 212+ / 212 Evo is that they're MASSIVE. Many cases aren't deep enough to have them installed with the case door still being able to be reinstalled. The Hyper TX3 is a better fit for cases that can't take the 212+, as it uses a 92mm fan instead of the 120mm on the 212+/Evo. The TX3 can cool up to 130W, so all but one AMD Phenom II part will work with it.
[QUOTE=bohb;40018597]The problem with the 212+ / 212 Evo is that they're MASSIVE. Many cases aren't deep enough to have them installed with the case door still being able to be reinstalled. The Hyper TX3 is a better fit for cases that can't take the 212+, as it uses a 92mm fan instead of the 120mm on the 212+/Evo. The TX3 can cool up to 130W, so all but one AMD Phenom II part will work with it.[/QUOTE] the 212s are just standard tower heatsinks, they'll fit into any case with a 120mm back exhaust fan so the vast majority of them
[QUOTE=reapaninja;40022716]the 212s are just standard tower heatsinks, they'll fit into any case with a 120mm back exhaust fan so the vast majority of them[/QUOTE] Not entirely true. The Hyper 212 is taller than a 120mm fan if you include the heatpipes and the base of the cooler. It's just under 160mm tall (158.5mm), plus the height of the motherboard and of the CPU mounted in the socket. I've come across several PC cases that have 120mm fans, but are too shallow to mount a 212 without it hitting the door.
[QUOTE=Ruzza;40009413]Cooler Master Hyper 212+ Evo[/QUOTE] as stated, it's really fucking awesome - It's so quite and it gives the sickest cooling. - My CPU was usually at 60 - 70 Celsius before I got the Cooler Master Hyper 212+ Evo Now it's on 25 - 30 while I'm in-game It's awesome and it's definitely worth the money. Here is a video of the cooler, it's bad but I hope it shows how ridiculous big it also is. - It's rotation is around 440 to 540 - pretty nice, but the only con I guess is that it keeps starting up saying that there's a failure with the CPU cooler - But it just resumes to windows when you press F1 Shows how strong it actually is, I don't know if I can find some software which allows me to adjust the rotation level. But If I was you, I would get it. video [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QF3x7oh2XM[/url]
[QUOTE=bohb;40018597]The problem with the 212+ / 212 Evo is that they're MASSIVE. Many cases aren't deep enough to have them installed with the case door still being able to be reinstalled. [/QUOTE] Really? My 212 doesn't look too big. But I might just be used to it and it fit both of my cases (one being absolutely cramped at the end with shit)
[QUOTE=nexusowner;40033247]as stated, it's really fucking awesome - It's so quite and it gives the sickest cooling. - My CPU was usually at 60 - 70 Celsius before I got the Cooler Master Hyper 212+ Evo Now it's on 25 - 30 while I'm in-game It's awesome and it's definitely worth the money. Here is a video of the cooler, it's bad but I hope it shows how ridiculous big it also is. - It's rotation is around 440 to 540 - pretty nice, but the only con I guess is that it keeps starting up saying that there's a failure with the CPU cooler - But it just resumes to windows when you press F1 Shows how strong it actually is, I don't know if I can find some software which allows me to adjust the rotation level. But If I was you, I would get it. video [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QF3x7oh2XM[/URL][/QUOTE] What's the full load temps?
[QUOTE=Starship;40037088]Really? My 212 doesn't look too big. But I might just be used to it and it fit both of my cases (one being absolutely cramped at the end with shit)[/QUOTE] My Hyper 212+ barely fit my old Lian Li mid tower case, it had like 1.5mm of clearance from the case door. I built another computer in a Cooler Master Elite 371 and it would hit the door, despite using all 120mm fans so I had to use a TX3 instead. Here's my current build in a massive Antec P280 with a Hyper 212+: [thumb]http://imageshack.us/a/img27/6424/img0178wx.jpg[/thumb]
[QUOTE=userman122;40043562]What's the full load temps?[/QUOTE] I'm not sure what your question is, but if you meant this. - I'm running SimCity 5 and Skyrim - I've done that for around 20 - 30 minutes and the heat is still that. [img]http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/7752/heatz.png[/img]
[QUOTE=nexusowner;40043962]I'm not sure what your question is, but if you meant this. - I'm running SimCity 5 and Skyrim - I've done that for around 20 - 30 minutes and the heat is still that. [IMG]http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/7752/heatz.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] Download a stress test - something like Folding@Home or Prime95. Run it for 10 min, and check the temps. Temps under gaming really isn't sufficient to test a cooler. Games use the CPU in different ways. Some games, like FarCry 3 is pretty CPU limited, while other games, like BF3 uses less CPU power. Edit: wPrime is a great tool too. Or intelburntest. wPrime is probably the easiest one.
I'm just downloading Folding@Home, gonna try out the others, depends if I don't go down with a depression after this program wrecked my dreams of having my PC below 40 Celsius. [editline]26th March 2013[/editline] But to be honest - Who wants to stress his own CPU, it doesn't matter as long as they can game without the PC is baking. But for anyone who's still interested it move around 5 degrees Celsius on three of the cores.
[QUOTE=nexusowner;40044178]I'm just downloading Folding@Home, gonna try out the others, depends if I don't go down with a depression after this program wrecked my dreams of having my PC below 40 Celsius. [editline]26th March 2013[/editline] But to be honest - Who wants to stress his own CPU, it doesn't matter as long as they can game without the PC is baking. But for anyone who's still interested it move around 5 degrees Celsius on three of the cores.[/QUOTE] I'm sure you're going to hit 50 *C. :P
[QUOTE=bohb;40031372]Not entirely true. The Hyper 212 is taller than a 120mm fan if you include the heatpipes and the base of the cooler. It's just under 160mm tall (158.5mm), plus the height of the motherboard and of the CPU mounted in the socket. I've come across several PC cases that have 120mm fans, but are too shallow to mount a 212 without it hitting the door.[/QUOTE] I pretty much forgot about this post. BUUT I decided to buy the Hyper TX3 after people's argues. It performs really well. My current CPU temperature is 32.5c, I have been monitoring temperatures as well when I'm surfing on Facepunch as as I'm gaming, after a hour or so playing PAYDAY: The Heist my temperature got 41c max. This is so much better than my old alloy CPU fan. CPU hit 45c while the system was in BIOS setup! Also, my case is a Cooler Master HAF 912 Plus. It's something over 200mm, since there fit 2 200mm fans in this case. Here's a image of how it looks like in my computer case: [url]http://imgur.com/KGsddgC[/url]
[QUOTE=nexusowner;40044178]I'm just downloading Folding@Home, gonna try out the others, depends if I don't go down with a depression after this program wrecked my dreams of having my PC below 40 Celsius. [editline]26th March 2013[/editline] But to be honest - Who wants to stress his own CPU, it doesn't matter as long as they can game without the PC is baking. But for anyone who's still interested it move around 5 degrees Celsius on three of the cores.[/QUOTE] Because it is a stabillity test for oc'ing?
[QUOTE=taipan;40045757]Because it is a stabillity test for oc'ing?[/QUOTE] I wouldn't even THINK of overclocking. When you want a computer that boots fast you gotta depend on a hard drive, I'm satisfied with the performance which my CPU gives now. :v:
[QUOTE=Merijnwitje;40045800]I wouldn't even THINK of overclocking. When you want a computer that boots fast you gotta depend on a hard drive, I'm satisfied with the performance which my CPU gives now. :v:[/QUOTE] OC'ing indeed does almost nothing for startup times, thats not why people overclock. Try playing games like planetside 2. Or future versions of battelfield whatever on that CPU. Believe me, you will want to overclock. You are going to hit a cpu bottleneck within a few years with that cpu (or any cpu). Overclocking will help it stretch a bit further. For example: Planetside 2, Bf3 and gta IV are unplayable for me without an overclock on my ancient E8500.
I hit 70 degrees with full stress test, My CPU is rated for 90 degrees, also I've overclocked it from 2.93GHz to 4.00GHz, it used to get past 100 degrees and shut down when I had the basic configuration with no overclock and stock cooler.
So, to set the dots on the I, I just got a CM Hyper TX3 Evo, temperatures and anything stupid else: Sensors | +- ASRock M3A770DE (/mainboard) | | | +- Winbond W83627DHG-P (/lpc/w83627dhgp) | | +- CPU VCore : 1.432 1.384 1.528 (/lpc/w83627dhgp/voltage/0) | | +- Voltage #2 : 0.256 0.128 0.544 (/lpc/w83627dhgp/voltage/1) | | +- AVCC : 3.392 3.376 3.408 (/lpc/w83627dhgp/voltage/2) | | +- 3VCC : 3.392 3.376 3.408 (/lpc/w83627dhgp/voltage/3) | | +- Voltage #5 : 1.904 1.872 1.904 (/lpc/w83627dhgp/voltage/4) | | +- Voltage #6 : 1.712 1.704 1.712 (/lpc/w83627dhgp/voltage/5) | | +- Voltage #7 : 1.696 1.688 1.704 (/lpc/w83627dhgp/voltage/6) | | +- 3VSB : 3.536 3.52 3.536 (/lpc/w83627dhgp/voltage/7) | | +- [B]CPU (temp) : 31c 24.5 36.5 (/lpc/w83627dhgp/temperature/0)[/B] | | +- [B]Auxiliary (temp) : 37c 36.5 38.5 (/lpc/w83627dhgp/temperature/1)[/B] | | +- [B]System (temp) : 21c 18 23 (/lpc/w83627dhgp/temperature/2)[/B] | | +- System Fan : 1004.46 888.158 1022.73 (/lpc/w83627dhgp/fan/0) | | +- CPU Fan : 1622.6 1418.07 1654.41 (/lpc/w83627dhgp/fan/1) | | +- Auxiliary Fan #2 : 685.976 0 697.314 (/lpc/w83627dhgp/fan/4) | Now go ahead and do your general discussions on this thread :P
[QUOTE=taipan;40045996]OC'ing indeed does almost nothing for startup times, thats not why people overclock. Try playing games like planetside 2. Or future versions of battelfield whatever on that CPU. Believe me, you will want to overclock. You are going to hit a cpu bottleneck within a few years with that cpu (or any cpu). Overclocking will help it stretch a bit further. For example: Planetside 2, Bf3 and gta IV are unplayable for me without an overclock on my ancient E8500.[/QUOTE] Well I can enjoy my game on ultra settings without overclocking. And a old ATI Series.
What's the load temps? Just wondering :)
urgh, actually closed it down after I typed the baking thing, but three of the cores was about 39 - 41
[QUOTE=bohb;40043713]My Hyper 212+ barely fit my old Lian Li mid tower case, it had like 1.5mm of clearance from the case door. I built another computer in a Cooler Master Elite 371 and it would hit the door, despite using all 120mm fans so I had to use a TX3 instead. Here's my current build in a massive Antec P280 with a Hyper 212+: [thumb]http://imageshack.us/a/img27/6424/img0178wx.jpg[/thumb][/QUOTE] Nice Cable Management.
[QUOTE=nexusowner;40049853]Well I can enjoy my game on ultra settings without overclocking. And a old ATI Series.[/QUOTE] Ahh yes your game. But I was talking about my game. :P Your game might be rollercoaster tycoon 2. (Which still is an excellent game btw)
Another question I have, does Arctic provide good thermal compound? Cause I want some decent compound that's not too expensive.
Good enough. You can find benchmarks on google.
[QUOTE=taipan;40054622]Ahh yes your game. But I was talking about my game. :P Your game might be rollercoaster tycoon 2. (Which still is an excellent game btw)[/QUOTE] I'm considering buying 4x Titans for SLI'ing and some Xeons. Do you think I can run the HD Texture Pack @ 30fps?
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