80mm or small CPU heat sink

Sam Golder · Mar 20, 2015

I need a 80mm or smaller CPU for a Mini-ITX builld. I am looking for it to be air cooled as i will not have space for a radiator. I will be overclocking and i have no price range!

martinch · Mar 20, 2015

Can you stretch to 90mm? The Noctua U9S is supposed to be good ... http://www.noctua.at/main.php?show=productview&products_id=105&lng=en

Sam Golder · Mar 20, 2015

martinch :

No i can not

i currently have the cooler master haf stacker. and in the top section i am building a rendering pc. And the max height for the cpu cooler is 80mm

martinch · Mar 20, 2015

Doh!

Only "small" HSF I can think of is the Noctua LN9i, but that's not suitable for i7's nor overclocking. If you go onto PcPartPicker.com, and make a new build using your case, CPU and motherboard, and then go to add a CPU cooler, it should give you a list of compatible ones - might be a starting point?

++EDIT: Thinking about it, a colleague has a C-shaped cooler (Noctua NH-L12) on their "compact" build - something like the Thermalright AXP-100, Cooler Master GeminII, Scythe BIG Shuriken might work? Can't say I know anything about their performance though, so please take it with a pinch of salt!

burdenbound · Mar 20, 2015

If you don't have much headroom why not try a different styler cooler like this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835856007 ?

The Original Ralph · Mar 20, 2015

actually the noctua NH-L9I isn't that bad of a choice - i just took mine off when i moved to a larger case, but as i just posted in another thread, i'm running a i7-4790 (locked) cpu and was seeing high 70s to high 80s with stock intel cooler and with the L9i temps dropped 10C. I know there's confusion on the noctua site, in one place they say it's rated for 65 watt TDP CPUs and in another they state 95 watts. Considering the heat exchanger fin area, if the stock intel cooler is good for 88 watts, the noctua L9i ought to be good for a little more, considering its got about 20-25% more heat fin area and a 90mm fan.

The only complaint i had with the noctua was it only had 2 heatpipes - i knew it'd do better with more pipes, and damn if noctua didn't just come out with a slightly larger version with 4 heatpipes but height went to 65mm, the NH-L9x65 http://www.noctua.at/main.php?show=productview&products_id=108&lng=en

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