heat tower

Captian_Obvious · **Joined:** Wed Aug 19, 2009 4:57 pm **Posts:** 171

looking for a decent but cheap heatpipe tower (no smaller then 120mm) for am2+, cpu is 5200+ @ 3.0,but i want a lot of head room, could H2O it but seems a bit much work just for a spare gaming system, right now has the oem hsf from one of the phenom II's (think the one from the 925)

been looking at the Noctua NH-D14 and Noctua NH-C12P SE14, also price wise i was looking at the GELID Solutions Tranquillo. any thoughts?

Dr_BenD_over · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 1:55 pm

I've put a NH-C12P SE14 into a friends system, it's a pretty good cooler, easy to install. You just have to make sure you have enough room around it (and it can be a pain plugging in the ATX12V or EPS12 power conectors)

Hali_Newf · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 2:52 pm

the 5200 doesnt generate a whole hell of alot of heat - I would say even skimp out a little and get the Freezer 7 pro that would run it fine.

The rev.2 freezer 7 uses a 92mm fan instead of the rev.1 80mm

http://www.mysterybyte.com/part/15421/

Captian_Obvious · **Joined:** Wed Aug 19, 2009 4:57 pm **Posts:** 171

go big or go home lol i would get the 140mm bc i could lol, like i said, headroom for the future. i ended up ordering the GELID Solutions Tranquillo, $36 after tax and shipping, not bad, next purchase for me is a complete except hdd's G5 dual 2ghz for $100, gotta love kijiji

Hali_Newf · **Posted:** Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:23 am

Ad ID 218290522 - only if ya knew before ordering.

I put one of these on the "Project Enermax" a short time ago - Frickkin HUGE cooler

Captian_Obvious · **Joined:** Wed Aug 19, 2009 4:57 pm **Posts:** 171

still got it? can never have to many lol

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:24 am

I see this thread and think:

Hali_Newf · **Posted:** Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:22 am

haha steve-O

its not me who got the ad - I just noticed the thing cause i parooze kijiji at work at times to fight boredom

Captian_Obvious · **Joined:** Wed Aug 19, 2009 4:57 pm **Posts:** 171

pur-o-later just dropped off the hsf, nice 10c drop , was a bit of a b!tch to put on the mobo due to lack of room lol

Hali_Newf · **Posted:** Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:10 pm

photo op!

Captian_Obvious · **Joined:** Wed Aug 19, 2009 4:57 pm **Posts:** 171

lol ok ok , the case is generic aopen till mom brings me the 900 i bought off denty lol

Captian_Obvious · **Joined:** Wed Aug 19, 2009 4:57 pm **Posts:** 171

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:30 am

5mm to spare, lol.

Captian_Obvious · **Joined:** Wed Aug 19, 2009 4:57 pm **Posts:** 171

the 52x rom and cd-rw are strickly to fill holes lol the mobo only has 1 ide and the hdd is on it ATM. she looks like crap but runs BC2, metro 2033 and Mass effect 2, borderlands all at decent settings

Hali_Newf · **Posted:** Thu Jul 22, 2010 8:37 am

well you can run them both. Slave the HDD or something. Set the optical drive to master and put in on position 1 on the cable, set the pin to slave on the hdd and use the 2nd position or something. Would work fine.

I did that back in the windows 98 days lol

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