What cooler do i need and are my parts gd or bad tell me what is chang

[homebuilder pc]

what cooler do i need for a i7 950 and motherboard asus P6T-Deluxe

well i can spend $2000
i'am thinking of getting these parts
Core i7-920 or i7-950
Seagate SATA 1TB/1.5T/2TB
ASUS P6T-SE / P6T / P6T Deluxe all by asus
ATI Radeon 1GB 5770
DDR3 12gb or 18gb
coolmaster Haf922 /Haf932
SHAW Gaming Viper-860w / 1200w
i do not no what cooling but i do want liquid
i can spend a bit more money
its for gaming
if possible no sound

 

[nofun]

What are your requirements? Low Noise? Extreme Overclocking?

Why are you going for the i7-950 rather than the i7-920?

 

[tecmo34]

My vote is for either the Cogage True Spirit or Xigmatek Dark Knight S1283V. Both are very good coolers for the LGA 1366 socket and priced good at under $45.00.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Here's some rankings:

http://www.silentpcreview.com/Recommended_Heatsinks
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=371&Itemid=62&limit=1&limitstart=15
http://www.frostytech.com/top5heatsinks.cfm#INTELHEATSINK

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Why are you going for the i7-950 rather than the i7-920?

Whlie one can OC a 920 well past 950 speeds, it's also true that a 950 can be OC'd even higher.

 

[ubernoobie]

I pick CCF 120mm

 

[homebuilder pc]

what cooler do i need for a i7 950 and motherboard asus P6T-Deluxe

well i can spend $2000
i'am thinking of getting these parts
Core i7-920 or i7-950
Seagate SATA 1TB/1.5T/2TB
ASUS P6T-SE / P6T / P6T Deluxe all by asus
ATI Radeon 1GB 5770
DDR3 12gb or 18gb
coolmaster Haf922 /Haf932
SHAW Gaming Viper-860w / 1200w
i do not no what cooling but i do want liquid
i can spend a bit more money
its for gaming

 

[homebuilder pc]

What are your requirements? Low Noise? Extreme Overclocking?

Why are you going for the i7-950 rather than the i7-920?

this is my set up that im getting
well i can spend $2000
i'am thinking of getting these parts
Core i7-920 or i7-950
Seagate SATA 1TB/1.5T/2TB
ASUS P6T-SE / P6T / P6T Deluxe all by asus
ATI Radeon 1GB 5770
DDR3 12gb or 18gb
coolmaster Haf922 /Haf932
SHAW Gaming Viper-860w / 1200w
i do not no what cooling but i do want liquid
i can spend a bit more money
its for gaming

 

[nofun]

Whlie one can OC a 920 well past 950 speeds, it's also true that a 950 can be OC'd even higher.

I just have never seen the point of this i7. It's 15% more performance for twice as much cost (at stock). If you're that extreme of an overclocker, then you're just going to go for the Extreme Edition i7-975 with an impressive LC setup so you can really let that beauty stretch its legs. THW did a review where they were able to get the i7-975 up to 4.25 GHz at 1.385v, but they were pushing 92 C under prime95 (and that was with a TruE-120!)

Bottom line, if you're really that much of an enthusiast, you're going to go for the extreme edition anyways, and you're going to use LC (or better) to cool that puppy. With air cooling, you're going to max out your performance for all three around the same levels just based on temperatures. Maybe you can push the i7-950 a LITTLE bit further, but once again, is 15% (or so) really worth twice the price? I just don't see the price/performance justification, and if money isn't an object for you then just go all the way to the i7-975.



@The OP, can you clarify this for us:

i do not no what cooling but i do want liquid

So you are planning to do water cooling? That would change things significantly. For air cooling, look at the CoGage True Spirit, the Prolimatech Megahalems, or the Titan Fenrir for good overclocking performance.

If this is primarily a gaming rig, then your build is rather lopsided. You would do better to invest more money in the GPU. If you're looking at an i7/X58 setup, then you're going to want at least an HD 5850 or a GTX 275 (or better), with the option to crossfire/SLI down the road. Otherwise it's like getting a porsche and then dropping a 4-banger in it. Gaming performance is more predicated upon the GPU than the CPU, although at your budget window the i7-920/X58 combo is probably the way to go.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

I just have never seen the point of this i7. It's 15% more performance for twice as much cost ./quotemsg]

It's called the concept of diminishing returns.

If I want to clean the pollutants out of water....

I can get 90% of them out for $1million
I can get 95% of them out for $2million
I can get 99% of them out for $10million

which water you wanna drink ?

Why drive anything else but a Yugo ?
Why eat anything else than a Bigmac ?

I can never understand people's obsession on how other people spend their money. If someone wants to eke an extra 10% of performance, I might not wanna do it but I certainly can't criticize anyone else for getting some pleasure out of that choice.

If they got it, what else they gonna do with it .... buy Kopi Luwak coffee ?

http://www.buy-kopi-luwak.com/

Die and leave it to ungrateful kids .... hoping my son reading this

There is a reason they call it "Disposable income"

 

[1898]

Wohwohwoh, come off it! Don't bash the Yugo, it's an awesome car.
To each his own, though not everyone is aware of the price-performance ratio IOW whether it's worth the price or not, thus people are rightfully expressing their opinion. It's not a matter of an obsession more of a good advice and that's what this forum is about.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

I guess my best analogy was when my son played competitive baseball .... they went to the county championship and split the 1st vtwo games and lost the deciding game ... that fall the team decided on 35 hours of practice and workouts per week. To most it was a worthwhile investment, to my son, he said "later for that" and took up flying.

Only the individual can decide what they wanna give up for what they want....and only they are in position to judge the value of the exchange.

 

[quinny]

why are you going for the 5770 its a 128 bit aard, if i were you (in the same price range) ild go for the sapphire radeon 4890 2gb oc edition.
Runs plenty faster than the 5770, downside is thats its dx10.1 not dx11 like the 5770

With the shaw you will most likely have to add lenth to the mobo cables.