What is the best heatsink WITH fan...

for a Abit P35 Pro with E8400 (I plan to OC to 4ghz if possible to include 3-4 year life-span on rig).

Essentially the best air cooling heatsink is the Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme. It doesn't come with a fan. You can use any 120mm with it. Yate Loon fans are inexpensive, but quiet and descent performance. Scythe makes excellent fans, but you pay for it.

Best for the money in my opinion is still the Tuniq Tower 120. It can be had for $45 on average. $86 for the Thermalright Ultra 120 and a Scythe fan is a little much to be spending for a couple degree difference in temperature IMHO.

It's just that these excellent coolers are just so dog-gone BIG, I would rather get a 3rd, 4th or 5th on a list of the top 10 if it was smaller.

How about which one is the smallest cooler out there that provides the best temperatures (fan or no fan).

p.s. Does the Tuniq Tower 120 come with a fan and as a "lol" I read a comment that when someone actually received the Tuniq they said "I hated my life for ordering it when I saw how HUGE it was". I laughed my butt off when I read that.

No Water!

Not too worried about it being quiet as long as it doesn't sound like a buzz-saw, dropped in a blender, thrown in the back of a Formula-One Car Racing onto a F-16 Fighter Jet breaking the Mach 1 sound barrier!

Want to achieve 4ghz with the least sized cooler IF that is possible otherwise it's a TU-120

I was deciding between the Tuniq Tower or Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme + Scythe S-Flex SFF21F fan but wanted to see what the smallest heatsink was that provided the most cooling, not neccesarily the same temperatures as the BEST such as these 2 but the smallest that had the best temperature savings.

But as I stated if trying to achieve 4ghz states for me to take a certain path and that path is BIG\HUGE heatsinks then that is that.

The Tuniq Tower 120 led version that i have has a fan that slides out from the middle of it ....

If it can cool my athlon 6400 it can probably cool a small nuclear reactor

If you are concerned with size, get an Ultima 90.

Besides it's more about the whole package and how you use it.

Most larger sinks have backing plates.

My TRUE has been on for 3-4 months and I have had no problems with sagging.

Heh, so does triple SLI 8800Ultras. Price considerations have to be taken into account.

LOL, the Thermalright doesn't even come with a fan

"What is the best heatsink WITH fan..."

Really? I had no idea.

Zerotherm Nirvana.

Oh.. or H20-120 or 220 Compact.

Just my opinion fellas. I would get the Tuniq. The Thermalright is an excellent cooler if you are willing to pay for it. There you go. No reason to carry on the flame...

OK.. This is my new answer.

Thermalright Ultra 120
http://www.frostytech.com/top5heatsinks.cfm

With A

NOCTUA NF-S12 SERIES
http://www.silentpcreview.com/arti [...] tml#noctua


**Granted the Thermalright does not come with this fan…

I would probably go with this:

Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme + Scythe S-Flex SFF21F fan

I would argue that any 45nm Intel CPU will last well beyond its useful life with the stock cooler, so the enhancing the life-span argument doesn't do much for me. Also, spending 36% of the total cost of a CPU on aftermarket cooling isn't something I would do personally. Finally, in reference to achieving a certain speed on account of the CPU cooler, the sad fact of the matter is that I can overclock an e6550 with a Cooler Master Hyper TX2 to within 100mhz of one with a Tuniq Tower, albeit with slightly higher temps, but still well within the "safe" threshold and far below the temps of the stock cooler. Performance per dollar is always the bottom line with me.

Those Noctua fans are actually kinda hard to find, though they are very highly regarded. I looked into them on a build a month or so ago.

It would seem to me that anything that is ran "cooler" should in theory last longer, so a stock heatsink versus an after-market one that allows it to run cooler should by all accounts increase the life-span.

Heck no... I don't want to spend a red .01 cent on anything extra "unless" there is a benefit, and if achieving a higher speed or not necessarily being "able" to achieve it but being able to maintain it running at a cooler temperature is achieved spending $$$ then I "bite-the-wallet" (or is that bullet) and just do it.

I will whole-heartedly agree on "performance per dollar".

TR120 Extreme!!!

S-Flex is a good quality quiet fan...many people use it on the 120 so it must be good

The -best- air cooler is a Thermalright...you need a fan.
With the right case and HS/Case fans it cools as well as a non-chilled H2O cooler.

The -best with a fan- is the Zerotherm Nirvana Premium...got one from Newegg last week with an email discount code for $39 USD.
Comes with Intel/AMD2 mounts and can be rotated to blow the hot air in the dirrection you want.

I only use the Silverstone FM-121 (not the FN-121) with free speed controlers (800-2400 RPM and 110qfpm at full speed).
Newegg has them for $14 USD but I have found them online for $11 USD.

I also always remove the exit fan grill on a case for unrestricted airflow.

O, I use Jabtech for my cooling parts

http://www.jab-tech.com/Scythe-S-F [...] -3257.html

^^ double post much??

Some say to push the air is the best...others say pulling the air through is better. I say try both and see which gives better temps

Many say they are good to order from. That and Petras Tech Shop is good