It really depends if you want to overclock.

 

Yes i want to get at least 4 ghz

 

for 60 dollars you could get the Antec KUHLER H2O 620 but I think the safest overclock on that would be to about 3.8 ghz though it woud have no problems with the ram clearence but I woud go with the corsair h70 if you want to sacrifice your budget, since it costs 100 bucks. the mid gorund I think would be the noctua NHD-14 wich you can find in the 80 to 90 dollars range and preformsas good if not better than the h70 although if you would want to add anotrher kit of the corsair memory to get the 12 gb you would have a problem. Hope it helps

 

Also just a tip. Grab a couple of antec spotcool fans if you can and place them over the northbridge and power delivery heatsinks.

 

I made it to 4GHz with hyperthreading on and My QPI @ 1.4v without going over 80 degrees with a H60. So if you went for one (cause they're dirt cheap) you wouldn't regret it. And you can always push and pull it.

 

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Also just a tip. Grab a couple of antec spotcool fans if you can and place them over the northbridge and power delivery heatsinks.

That's unnecessary unless your case has literally no airflow. Northbridge and VRMs are designed to deal with heat. I have nothing other than ambient airflow from my case fans cooling my motherboard heatsinks and have never suffered any blue screens or lockups because they got too hot.

Spotcools are way too loud to be of any service. Only use them if it's absolutely necessary.

 

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That's unnecessary unless your case has literally no airflow. Northbridge and VRMs are designed to deal with heat. I have nothing other than ambient airflow from my case fans cooling my motherboard heatsinks and have never suffered any blue screens or lockups because they got too hot.

Spotcools are way too loud to be of any service. Only use them if it's absolutely necessary.

Thumbs up!

 

Yay, fellow 950

Anywho; one can really never go wrong with the Cooler Master Hyper-212+, though due to recent abuse, it's gone from best-bang-for-buck to a mere "acceptable" bargain. On the other side, there's a Scythe cooler I've heard many other posters approve; I believe it's a Scythe Mugen 2?

Prolimatech Megahalems, I'm sure, will never go wrong. You can probably find some for a good price too; check the market section here too.

Noctua ND-14 (what bloody alphanumeric combination is it?) is probably still top-dog, though I believe they're typically beyond your $60 budget.

NOTE: I have no experience with the above, or with anything beyond the Arctic Cooling heatsink in my signature; if you have to take anything from this post, it would be to do conclusive amounts of reliable research.

 

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Originally Posted by blackbalt89;13945963
That's unnecessary unless your case has literally no airflow. Northbridge and VRMs are designed to deal with heat. I have nothing other than ambient airflow from my case fans cooling my motherboard heatsinks and have never suffered any blue screens or lockups because they got too hot.

Spotcools are way too loud to be of any service. Only use them if it's absolutely necessary.

I have the 690 ii and youre probably right, I suspected my mobo came defective but since I'm switching to sandy bridge I decided not to RMA.

 

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I have the 690 ii and youre probably right, I suspected my mobo came defective but since I'm switching to sandy bridge I decided not to RMA.

I know what you're talking about. The first time I saw the temps in BIOS I near bricked myself. But after reading around the internets I realized that the northbridge will always run hot. It's just the way it is.

The only problem you will have is when temps start going over 100C.

Since software temperature monitoring is vague at best I'm not sure which temp is even which. But in Hardware Monitor it's showing SYSTIN as 32C, CPUTIN as 28C, and AUXTIN as 55, all while on idle. All of those temperatures are well below the max operating temps and most of the time those people that use waterblocks on their motherboards are more or less doing it for looks, it's not always necessary.

 

Thanks for all the replies
i was looking arround and i thought the Scythe Yasa looked good
anyone hear anything about it?

 

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Thanks for all the replies
i was looking arround and i thought the Scythe Yasa looked good
anyone hear anything about it?

Do you have a link?

Anyway - if I had to trust any source, it would be this one. If anything, you can always use that search bar on the top-right on the name of a cooler and see if anyone else has said anything about it.

Research is key! Try to search for characteristics that are shared; cpu chip (of course), TIM, and tower case are probably most important in terms of thermal performance.
Newegg customer ratings are abundant - because of that, I'd trust them as a first source, but I'd run back to OCN as a primary.
I've only heard that TomsHardWare is biased/paid for their reviews; I can't tell.

EDIT: Great Deal on the CM Hyper212+ here.

 

I think im going to go for the Venomous X RT
it gets very good reviews and fits my case
it is a little over my budget but i think its worth it