Cheap air cooling for X2

I hate to tell you this, but that's only as good as the stock amd cooler (especially if you have the heatpipe version) because of how noisy those types of coolers get and hot not efficient they are.
A bit out of the budget, but is this affordable, probably the best cooler within even the $40 range even though its far less than many coolers
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835185125
They were just on sale too, only 16.99 Looks like you missed out on an amazing deal. But still, definitely outperforms the stock amd cooler in silence and performance

Nice find dario, I knew newegg had a premium but 100% premium, that's insane 8O

Makes me wonder how much money I've wasted there (and I thought they had reasonably good prices for most things)

glad to help, that is an amazing cooler right there

Thy have nice prices for most common things, but they really drop the ball in anything cooling related.

Xeons are nicely priced in the egg, the real lesson here is to always look for additional options and not stick to the same vendor.

OK, here I go; my case has only one place for an exhaust 80 mm fan (which I use), no large intake apertures but only some holes here and there. Recently I even modded it with 100+ holes on a side pannel to create a good 90mm intake for the CPU fan.
These are two options I have thought of if I get the Freezer64:

Option1 is pretty straightforward; leave everything untouched snd just install the new HSF. Airflow is good but I'm stuck with a still noisy 80 mm fan.
Option2 has some modding; cutting out all the 80 mm section of perforated steel and insert a funnel-like reduction which extends to exhaust the HSF hot air directly outside, without needing a case fan (The rest of the case has few, not so hot components, so it's all done by the PSU fan).

Which of the options looks the best? No way I like the second but don't know if air flows well enough through the tube without other help. Any ideas?!

Option one. The rear exhaust will also help in cooling MOSFETs and VRMs that might be directly below. If that fan is too loud just mod it to 7 volts.

Dont cut holes, cut a circle the diameter of the fan and four holes for screws, then use a fan grill or a filter. Itll give you better results since the fan will have free air to intake from.

The difference is in noise. Like rwaritsdario said, opt1 is more efficient, however, still have to cope with the noise of a 80mm fan and if I make it spin slower it will pump out fewer air.

, if I could afford a $50 case, I'd not ask for a $15 cooler. Maybe I'll just stick with the 80 mm fan, maybe I add some holes to the rear and make it house a 100 mm fan, even a 120 with 100mm mounting points If I put it on the outside face of the rear (because it's exactly 120 mm).

Dont cut holes, cut a circle the diameter of the fan and four holes for screws, then use a fan grill or a filter. Itll give you better results since the fan will have free air to intake from.
:? ...how do I mod it to 7v?!

Go with the Arctic Cooling, my Opty idles @ 33-34C overclocked 25%, and I can barely hear it.

You're saying a simple potentiometer will do, right.

That's what I had in mond and most important; I found a 100mm fan with additional 92mm mounting points and even if it's too large to be placed on the inside I can always mount it on the outside of the case; wil do the job even quieter than a 92 mm.