[Solved] Looking for good i7 920 cooler with realistic price

Hello,
I am looking for a good aftermarket cooler for an intel core i7 920. I would like to stay under $45 if possible. If it is not possible to get a decent cooler for under this price, I may raise my budget.

Currently, when I have had the i7 at 75% load, it gets close to 60 C. I am still using the stock Intel cooler. When doing transcoding/video editing or long time gaming, my CPU reachs 60 C and sometimes a little bit over.

Can anyone recommend an exceptional cooler? I am also interested in overclocking my i7 920 once I get a aftermarket cooler. Nothing extreme, but at least up to 3.0 GHz.

Funny you mention the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 rev. 2 because I've been eying that for a while. Very good price and I know the first revision received rave reviews almost everywhere when it came out.

The one thing that I had started seeing pop up in a few sites was people doubting that cooler because of it's age. They said that they haven't changed it much (other than to work with the i7's) and that other coolers out there today beat it. I'm not sure if this is true or not, but if you or anyone else has experience with this cooler (rev. 2) let me know how you like it.

I wanted to get a cooler that will lower my temps all the time by will also allow me to overclock and not reach 50+C. Again, I'm not going to be doing any heavy overclocking, but enough to get it out of the 2.6GHz bracket.

A couple of people on different sites said the arctic freezer 7 is a decent cooler but doesn't leave room for overclocking. I'm not sure if these are peoples assumptions or if the cooler is actually outdated enough where it will lower temps, but not be enough for overclocking.

If anyone can give me more info on that arctic cooler, I would gladly snatch it up. I've just seen too many mixed things with not enough evidence/proof since rev. 2 is relatively new...

Here is a link to a very good web site with a lot of useful information about cpu heatsinks:

http://www.frostytech.com/top5heatsinks.cfm

You can use the embedded search engine to find information about socket specific heatsinks.

Thanks for the link Johnny but there is no chart for the 1366 socket yet. It does say it's in the works though...

Awesome. Glad to hear. I couldn't find anything about fitting with that mobo and cpu cooler on Google so I'm glad to get an answer from someone.

As for the case, my g/f had given it to me because she upgraded to an Antec 902. I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do about the case and if I'm going to use it or not. One of the fan's wires was ripped open when she was taking one of the cages. She had soldered it back together and it seems to work fine but I'm still unsure how those antec fans perform that they include with the case. I do like the 200mm fan on top though.

Just curious, what kind of case do you use?

Very nice! Well, I'm going to start out by getting the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 like you suggested.
I have decided I am going to use the Antec 900 and change the fans later on if I want or if needed.

One more thing. I heard the rev. 2 of the freezer 7 comes with this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835186020

Do you think I should still get a tube of AS 5?

Sounds good to me.

Thanks again for all your help