help finding good aftermarket heat sink

im looking for a good, rather in-expensive aftermarket heat sink that can cool me from a waping 55 degree play time and 39 degree idle to a more reasonable # for overclocking. also, it would be good if it is amd am3, AND intel lga 1155 compatable. price range im looking for is less than $60. i should also probably ask if an h100 would be more effective, i would imagine it would, and i know thats 60 more than i wanted to spend, but it may be worth it at some point

If you are willing to go $20 over your budget, and want to stay with a HS/F, then this is the one that I would suggest:

Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler LGA1366 LGA1156 LGA775 AM2 AM3 AM2+ NEW (8424310139342) | eBay

seekermeister said:

If you are willing to go $20 over your budget, and want to stay with a HS/F, then this is the one that I would suggest:

Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler LGA1366 LGA1156 LGA775 AM2 AM3 AM2+ NEW (8424310139342) | eBay

i saw that, i know of noctua and allot of people say its in the top 2 best, but i wasnt sure of how good it would be as an aftermarket heat sink

i was taking a look at one on new egg, dont remember what it was called, it was an arctic silver one, im farily certain it will NOT out perform a noctua, but incase i find i dont have the funds when im ready, its i think 40 or 50, it was the arctic silver 13 aftermarket heat sink. just looking for some input on whether or not it would be worth it if i find i cant spare the extra 20 later on

Considering that the only cooler listed above the Noctua on that Freezer 13 list is in a category of it's own, and goes for ~$849, I would say that the Noctua is the best in it's class.

V43L1N said:

Thornton said:

im looking for a good, rather in-expensive aftermarket heat sink that can cool me from a waping 55 degree play time and 39 degree idle to a more reasonable # for overclocking. also, it would be good if it is amd am3, AND intel lga 1155 compatable. price range im looking for is less than $60. i should also probably ask if an h100 would be more effective, i would imagine it would, and i know thats 60 more than i wanted to spend, but it may be worth it at some point

I've used an H100 in my last two customer builds(by request),they were a pain to mount and are really meant for beyond the norm overclocking. I use an H100 in my gaming rig, but I shelled out that much cash to reach 5Ghz at reasonable temps. The H100 is built for pushing the boundaries of your processor without moving into custom water cooling loops.

I would go with A Guy's suggestion of the Hyper 212. I've worked with one of these before. The installation was pretty straight forward, and dropped the temps by 9-12 C.

i plan on ocing my BE955 to maybe a little over 4, maybe 4.3 ghz and having a bit of fun with a new i7 iplan on buying also, but not as much with the i7 because its already so fricking fast. so if the noctua can do it, i think thats the direction ill go, based o ntheir fan prices, 80 % of the price of that heat sink is the fans lol