Air vs. LCS

[swoperet]

Still torn over the heat issue with OCing the i7-920. One source claims a stable OC at 4.2 using the Thermalright Extreme 120 CPU cooler for the 1366 (B) socket (using 2 Yate Loon 120's) w/ Asus Rampage board. He's doing this with 2 ATI 4890 OC cards. Source claims that air is all I need unless doing ultra serious video editing. Using the Antec 1200 case, I'm wondering would this set up provide enough cooling (with max fans) to allow me to shrug off the LCS route until I'm ready for some serious overclocking (5.4 and beyond)? Suggestions? Comments or opinions?

 

[geofelt]

What are you trying to accomplish?

For games, you generally don't need much over an easy OC to 3.2 or so to get good gameplay. The vga configuration and your resolution is much more important.

If you just want the OC challenge, then bite the bullet and go liquid cooling.

Chips vary, and the D0 stepping OC's better and cooler than the C0. Use other's results only as a guideline, not a promise.

The Antec 1200 case is about as good as it gets.