I would like to spend $100.00 or less for a cooling solution for an i7 950. I am using an EVGA SLI X58 mobo, Antec 902 case and 2 MSI Cyclone 460GTX 1gb in SLI. I plan on overclocking but not to the extreme. If I can get to high 3s or 4.0 I will be happy. I had a Thermaltake V1 hanging around so I installed that first. There most be something wrong with it because I was hitting 99c causing bsod when running P95. I removed and reinstalled it three times but nothing helped. I then installed the stock Intel heatsink and the temps haven't gone over 75c while running 8 threads of P95 and furmark at the same time. Of course this is at stock speeds.
I would like to overclock so I am now looking for the best option for @100 bucks. I have a Kingston fan kit installed over my 3x2gb ram. I would like to have a cpu cooler that allowed me to still use it. Most of the most common extremely large heatsink won't allow that. I know the ram fan probably doesn't do much since ram tends to run cool but it looks good and it certainly can't hurt.
I've read many reviews and besides the fans being loud at full speed the H70 appears to be a great choice. I will probably run them with the resistors installed to help with the noise issue.
If there is a better solution than the H70 and it requires me not using the ram fan kit then I will consider it.
I would like to overclock so I am now looking for the best option for @100 bucks. I have a Kingston fan kit installed over my 3x2gb ram. I would like to have a cpu cooler that allowed me to still use it. Most of the most common extremely large heatsink won't allow that. I know the ram fan probably doesn't do much since ram tends to run cool but it looks good and it certainly can't hurt.
I've read many reviews and besides the fans being loud at full speed the H70 appears to be a great choice. I will probably run them with the resistors installed to help with the noise issue.
If there is a better solution than the H70 and it requires me not using the ram fan kit then I will consider it.