Too much air cooling?

I plan on purchasing a sunbeam CCF soon and I wanted to improve on the cooling.

I was thinking of replacing the 120mm sunbeam fan with a new 7500rpm 252CFM fan.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835706015

Is this a bad idea due to vibrations? My goal is trying to keep a Q9450 OCed to 3.2-3.6ghz at 1.22-1.25 volts for 24/7 use over the next 4-5 years (always OCed) at no more than 40C.

Any thoughts guys? BTW the CCF is replacing my failed attempt of a liquid kit, so please, no liquid suggestions.

Totally overkill, any decent 120mm fan should do the trick. I'd personally try to keep the db level to under 40.

At factory settings, your Q9450 requires a TDP 95w cooling system with a max case temp of 71.4°C
Being OC'd you probably want something more like TDP 145w and the case temp shouldn't exceed 60°C
As for the vibration, you can get rubber dampeners pretty cheap or you could even use cardboard grommets.

if you want good cooling that doesn't break the bank
Don't stay with traditional air cooling

Get the Corsair H50
http://ncix.com/products/?sku=4013 [...] re=Corsair

Its liquid cooling in a closed kit

Its under $100 and will beat any air cooler while taking less space

Well, as I mentioned above, i'm replacing my liquid kit with an air cooler. I currently have a thermaltake bigwater 760i, which sucks. My Q9450 OCed to a mild 3.2ghz for even 1 hour reachs 70c! And yes, I have reseated it twice and i'm using artic silver 5. I'm also only using 1.22volts.

Also, i'm not purchasing this for a case fan. While it is a case fan, it will be replacing the fan on the sunbeam CCF cpu cooler. My main concern was vibration from the fan, and/or mounting issues. But if you guys feel that it's ok to slap on there, i'll go ahead and order it.

Thanks guys for all your input!!

Well I'm using it right now, its not the best HSF (on top of charts) anymore, its no.2 on Intel & no. 3 on AMD - Frostytech Top 5 heatsink! and so far I'm using it with the 120mm fan from my Coolermaster GeminII S (stock CCF fan doesn't have any PWM) I found that its best suited for low speed airflow, I did paired it with Scythe Kaze 1900rpm/110cfm but the temps are only 1~2 degrees apart+unbearable noise, but if you still insist on using that super-fan then you should put something between the fan & Alu-fins to minimize vibrations.

USELESSSSSSSS

I had a TT 120mm bigtyphoon and i hooked a 5500rpm fan to it. Playing with my fan controller showed that over 2500-3000 rpm there was NO difference in the CPU temp. And i ran it @ 2000rpm cause over this the thing became louder and the temp gain wasnt enough.

If you want real improvement, Jump to WC ...

Edit : TEC ( peltier ) is a pain too, You need GOOD knowledge of the Hot/cold plate and HOW much cooling you need to run a Pelt. any Air cooling on a Pelt is near to be useless cause the hot side is too much for the Heatsink and cause of that the cold side cant be cold enough .... READ READ READ ... google is your best friend.

i think the vibrations will be the worst part, might rip off the dampers, ccf was dethroned a few months back, but its still in the top 5

I dropped some serious temps by lapping, using a Spin-q and a 201 CFM 2675 RPM dayton blower. This setup probably wont do anyone any good unless you are running an open air Rig with enough room for the blower. I was using the Corsair W/C kit, it is deffinitely better than the TT Bigwater and any other kit from TT. The CoolIT Domino on the other hand has some problems with leakage on all the Units I installed last month. This doesnt mean that they all have this problem it may have just been a bad batch.

Hmmmm submersed oil cooling hmmmmmmmmmmmmm...... I.... I like it!