from my experience,opening my elite 330 casing will significantly reduce the all systems temp.my e8400 stock voltage, from 55C idle down to 48-50C idle. =.="

Just now..I removed one of my Cooler Master 90CFM fans to replace the screws with rubber screws, and I realized that the fan is kinda oily/greasy..

Any idea why is it greasy??

I'm just afraid of the damn pushpins..I have terrible experiences with the Intel stock cooler..now I'm running my Q6600 with stock cooler, 50C at idle 

You only need to use the screw when removing the HSF. I've got no problems with removing..only problems with fixing it..

Maybe I've already fixed it correctly..but somehow my temps are still at 50C at idle!!

I have read lots of threads regarding this matter and most ppl say that 50C is high at idle. Most of them get below 40C 

hmm.....aint that sunbeam CCF is the best now?....and there's TITAN FENRIR recently that just defeated sunbeam CCF (i refered to frostytech)

CCF is a lol... those that buy CCF are mostly tricked by frostytech HAHAHAHAHAHA
they are happy that their CCF cools their Core2Duo ALOT, try running them on quaddies and i7 at high voltage and speed c la

there was a user last time using q9450 @ 4ghz, he used ccf, and guess what's his temp, 88c during load...

TRUE is definitely the best for i7. I've used CCF and just changed to TRUE120. The temp difference between those two are huge. Here are the proofs. All the tests were done in a control environment where the aircond temperature was set to 23C in a closed 8 x 10 ft room and the ambient temperature was 25C (taken from my Raytek hand held temperature probe, model Raynger ST2L ).  Both HSFs were applied with Tuniq TX2. Prim95 9 (small fft) was used to make all 4 cores of the i7 load to 100%. All the temps were taken after running prime95 for an hour. I took the maximum value temp readings monitored by Real Temp 3.0. I didn't bother to take the idle temperatures for all the cores as the 100% load temperatures across all the 4 cores were the objective in these tests. In addtion I also ran LinX 0.5.6 as this application produce more heat than prime95.



From the summary above running LinX, TRUE beats CCF in average of 7.5C.

Conclusion, I was a fool on believing frostytech. I should have bought TRUE120 in the first place.

hdt is actually better than TRUE's design... TRUE, or most thermalright coolers, ARENT flat... dats y people resort to lapping it... google it and u will c, many complain TRUE didn't do a good finishing job on the base... but jz imagine, TRUE not yet lapped oredi pwn ccf, wat more when its lapped

guys...which shop around KL sell delta or panaflo high CFM fan..?? before this, i try finding it at jalan pasar..but no shop sell those item..they sell only low CFM one..

the bracket is different.

this cooler use a thumbscrew to tighten it believe it or not.

using cm690 with high flow fans, WITHOUT god damn filters... took me 1 month+ to notice traces of dust ... only place fitted with filter is the front intake... bottom and side i totally remove those filters since they were annoying and cut so much airflow

Lol..I'm having the same problem with iBenQ too..using CM690 + CM 90CFM fans..

I don't understand what you meant by 'raise the fan from the filter' ><

EDIT:
Err..do you mean you fix the fan far from the filter?

do u think its effective? i can see the long screws function here... mayb any pic can help 

hmmm... that could work too, my solution was remove the filter hahaha, but this method works too, good for those that still wanna have filters

but you only did it on the bottom fan...how bout the ones in front? they are all still being blocked by the filters arent they?

>< so jealous to see ppl having such nice casings....i cant change mine coz i need a small mid tower...i tend to carry my PC back to KL from my hostel pretty often...huhuhu

I'm not exactly having a problem with temperature, so I guess this is my best topic to post since I don't want to open a redundant topic just for a simple question, and there seems to be no recommendation thread.

Anyway, I'm finally upgrading my computer to a Core 2 Duo E8400 from a P4, and I'm planning to get a EP45-UD3R. Problem is, I'm undecided on the cooling. Take note that I bought a E8400 OEM so it does not come with stock cooler, so buying that is RM30 I think over at garage sales.

I am trying to budget it as cheap as possible, but also not too cheap that it makes barely any difference from Intel's stock cooler. CCF seems value for money at RM160 for it's performance and all, but I see the size and I feel like it's an overkill, since I'll probably do only a minor overclock, probably to 3.6ghz or something.

From what I've been reading around last night and today, the impression that I got of the decent contenders for my choice are:

Xigmatek HDT-SD963 - RM90
CM Hyper 212 - RM125
Xigmatek Red Scorpion - RM135
CM Hyper N520 - RM145

I also read about some DeepCool ones too, but I'm unsure of which exact models are the ones you pros are talking about.

So... my question is... which is worth getting for price:performance ratio among price range RM80-RM140 or so?

Thanks in advance

I'm glad I asked then. Thanks for the info.
From reviews they seem decent, but I feel that Xigmatek's offerings are more value for money based on their performance - maybe because Xigmatek not as famous brand-wise compared to CM.
Thanks for the info on Xig's TIM too, yeah I think I can afford TX2 S964 is RM130 or so I believe, but I read that Red Scorpion > S964 for around the same price bracket, so I didn't include it in my candidates.

Seems like both of you recommended Red Scorpion for this price bracket so I think I'll go for that. When I do get it all done I'll post with my results of how it goes too =D

Thanks again!

How about a ThermalRight then?

Hello guys i've got a problem regarding 3 HSF's for cooling a quadcore. Can any of you guys please give me your opinions based on personal experience?
The 3 of them are :
1) Thermalright IFX
2) Thermalright True 120
3) Coolermaster V8
Which one of these would be better for cooling a q6600. I would prefer that price was not figured into the equation just compare them based on performance. Thanks in advance.