No need, they don't really get hot...you could probably do the same with a high end air cooler, which I think I'll do. I personally plan on getting a Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6, 2 gigs of cheap ass ram, an E6300 and salvaging what I can. Hoping for 3.6ghz on air, seems more than doable as some already have gotten 3.8 on nice air cooling.as of now i plan on getting the E6300 and Bigwater 745....and i think i will be OCing the beast.
I think that you will never reach 3.6GHz on air. It is almost +100% overclock. +50% is more than excelent, 2.8GHz.I personally plan on getting a Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6, 2 gigs of cheap ass ram, an E6300 and salvaging what I can. Hoping for 3.6ghz on air, seems more than doable as some already have gotten 3.8 on nice air cooling.
Well, they are not more expencive than those for s939, but not that much. The reasons are that more lanes are used for DDR2 implementation than for DDR and the more expencive chipsets for Intel(counting on the IMC). The K8 DDR2 mainboards will be more expencive than the K8 DDR. The K8 needs faster(more expencive) DDR2 than Core2. So there is a compromise between the RAM and mainboard prices for both systems.The E6300 will clearly leave the X2 3800+ behind but you will pay slightly more because 775 Mobos are very expensive.
Not much of a compare to an X2 3800+ but this chinese site pits a E6300 and an E6400 against and FX-60 so you have a vague point of reference. Do your own interpolations, they will be mildly and I emphasize mildly accurate, more like round ball park but not much more.
http://www.pconline.com.cn/diy/evalue/evalue/cpu/0605/791941_8.html