Which i5 750 cpu cooler?

OpenToSuggestions · 14 Mar 2010 at 19:36

Friend bought an i5 rig yesterday and seems that the CoolIt (very similar to the corsair all in one water cpu cooler) is faulty.

What hsf do you lot recommend for an i5 cpu?
Ideally no more expensive than the CoolIt one.

Needs to have good cooling as we are aiming for 4ghz overclock and quiet.
Thanks

RJC · 14 Mar 2010 at 19:57

Have a look at the Noctua only a few pounds more, or Prolimatech with a attached fan or the Tuniq Tower.

OpenToSuggestions · 14 Mar 2010 at 20:49

Thanks for the post.
I have heard they are top cpu coolers, and whilst I know the £ is really weak now and everything is bought in $, £60 for a heatsink and fan still seems a lot to me.

Guest2 · 14 Mar 2010 at 21:12

Corsair H50 is about £60

OpenToSuggestions · 14 Mar 2010 at 22:35

Thanks. Will point him towards the 3 coolers mentioned.

The CoolIt was only bought as was recommended in the shop, on reflection I should have looked are views, as some are good and some are bad of it.

jamesgoss · 14 Mar 2010 at 22:39

I'm using a Megahalems. At 4.0GHz with 75 celcius load temps (IBT) in a case with crap airflow. Very good performance I reckon. Using push/pull yate loons

OpenToSuggestions · 14 Mar 2010 at 22:43

jamesgoss said:
I'm using a Megahalems. At 4.0GHz with 75 celcius load temps (IBT) in a case with crap airflow. Very good performance I reckon. Using push/pull yate loons

How are you finding overclocking on the UD3?
The fancier boards have 12 or 24 phase power but to me it seemed like it was of little use other than to sell more.

Helios1234 · 15 Mar 2010 at 02:25

Instead of the Prolimatech, check out the Thermalright Venomous X. And it's crazy spending that much money on the Noctua NH-U12P these days seeing as how the NH-D14 is vastly superior for not much more.

However since cost is an issue, I highly suggest you check out the Tuniq 120 Tower and the Alpenfohn Nordwand. Both of those will end up significantly cheaper than the VX with two fans or the NH-D14. The Cogage arrow is proving to be very good as well but that is the only cooler I haven't tried personally.

shroomz · 15 Mar 2010 at 10:43

Titan Fenrir has some amazing reviews, as well as Akasa Freedom Tower

Chapa · 15 Mar 2010 at 12:01

Hi All,

The Titan Fenrir is still not available at Overclockers for 1156 socket.

I bought my rig a few weeks back and im glad i bought these components.

I5 750
Gigabyte P55 US3L
Zalman Extreme

I have overclocked this cpu without a hitch, no bsod nothing.

3.8 Ghz
FSB 181 X 21 Multiplier @ 1.18 Vcore Just exellent
At full load getting 52 degrees after 2 hrs prime95.

And i think i can go further,

I would recommend this cpu and motherboard to everyone.

What do you guys think on the temps?

Thanks

Chapa

Jabbs · 15 Mar 2010 at 16:24

My temps posted from the I5 overclocking thread using the same cpu on a H50-1 am more than happy with the results even with intel burn test it doesn't go much above 70 and we all know that pushes more than prime.

Jabbs said:
Done some overclocking and managed to get this below stable in prime, this test here around 1 hour 20 in and intel burn test, volts are are they ok ?
Cpu 1.2935
QPI 1.23
PCH 1.12
PLL 1.88

Chapa · 15 Mar 2010 at 22:04

I havent tried going to 4 Ghz, but i would think i can get to this with lower temps on air cooling.

My CPU is at 3,8 Ghz at 1.18 volts, all the others to default settings.

Jabbs i would try using the 21 multiplier, as i have always heard that odd multipliers are more stable.

Ricardox1 · 16 Mar 2010 at 15:32

I'm using tuniq extreme cpu cooler and my I5 is @ 3.8ghz and load temps are only high 60's, idles at low 30's

Great cooler.

jamesgoss · 16 Mar 2010 at 22:59

mglover070588 said:
How are you finding overclocking on the UD3?
The fancier boards have 12 or 24 phase power but to me it seemed like it was of little use other than to sell more.

Honestly, I just used the settings that were in a CustomPC issue for the UD2, and it went straight to 3.8. I was getting decent temps so I took it up another notch to 4.0 and it hasn't batted an eyelid. It runs perfectly with no hiccups, no crashes. It's a very good board as far as I'm concerned, and I wanted a full atx to allow room for monster coolers (I was scared it wouldn't fit with a graphics card installed on a UD2).

All in all, very happy with my spec, and the megahalems is performing exactly as I had hoped. I'm going to try reducing fan speed on the Yates and see how that affects temps, but that should be a few days.

EDIT: I think the settings are on bit-tech too if you have a rummage in the CPU section

Slashiem · 17 Mar 2010 at 00:15

jamesgoss said:
EDIT: I think the settings are on bit-tech too if you have a rummage in the CPU section

Just found that @: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2009/09/21/overclocking-intel-s-core-i5-750/1

I also got an i5 750 with the gigabyte p55m UD2, which will be setup tomorrow.

Cooler wise i went for this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-001-CG&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395

Got a decent review but we shall see tomorrow how it fairs.

Chapa · 17 Mar 2010 at 12:42

jamesgoss,

what are your temps at idle and load?

Also your voltages please

Thanks

jamesgoss · 18 Mar 2010 at 00:18

Hi Chapa,

My idle temps are around 38C,while my load temps on IBT get to 75C,which I'm comfortable with.this shows how lazy I was with overclocking my i5: I don't even know what they call the vcore anymore (maybe that's what it still is!). Anyway,main chip voltage is 1.35,a couple of other tweaks. All the settings are in that bit tech article above.unfortunately I've just come back from work so can't really start delving into my BIOS I'm afraid

James

gurusan · 18 Mar 2010 at 08:09

I just bought the Cogage Arrow and will be using 1 or 2 38mm Yate Loons