so i had a different cooler before, and it went bad, so I switched back to stock... now i ordered a different cooler, and got the Xigmatek Dark Knight LGA1366 cooler. And i must say, this thing is NICE for $40. It cools better then my previous cooler (Coolermaster V8) surprisingly... but since it went bad, it may not have been doing its full potential. Regardless I went with something a lil different... this thing is HUGE though. The craftsmanship is also very nice. 
The thermal grease that comes with it seems to also be high quality. It looks great...best looking aftermarket cooler ive ever seen!!! The black nickle coating really stands out, and looks wonderful!
First shot is after 15+ minutes of prime95, and as you can see, hottest it got was 59celsius... but was holding steady at 57celsius... stock cooler was in the 70+ celsius range (Stock clocks, this is also on stock clock speed as well)
Coolermaster V8 did rather poor, and was in the mid 60's under load.
I am very happy
BTW, this is a core i7 920 setup/X-58 ASUS P6T Deluxe MB. I am about to take it up to 3.6ghz and see how she does.
Here is the screenshot, and pics on first bootup
The thermal grease that comes with it seems to also be high quality. It looks great...best looking aftermarket cooler ive ever seen!!! The black nickle coating really stands out, and looks wonderful!First shot is after 15+ minutes of prime95, and as you can see, hottest it got was 59celsius... but was holding steady at 57celsius... stock cooler was in the 70+ celsius range (Stock clocks, this is also on stock clock speed as well)
Coolermaster V8 did rather poor, and was in the mid 60's under load.
I am very happy
BTW, this is a core i7 920 setup/X-58 ASUS P6T Deluxe MB. I am about to take it up to 3.6ghz and see how she does.
Here is the screenshot, and pics on first bootup
My Computer
At a glance
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bitIntel Core i7 9206gb Mushkin 1866 DDR32x EVGA GTX 285
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Home Built
- OS
- Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
- CPU
- Intel Core i7 920
- Motherboard
- ASUS P6T Deluxe
- Memory
- 6gb Mushkin 1866 DDR3
- Graphics Card(s)
- 2x EVGA GTX 285
- Sound Card
- Onboard
- Monitor(s) Displays
- ASUS 24inch LCD 2ms delay
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- 4x OCZ-Vertex 60gb in RAID0 & one 300GB Velociraptor HDD, 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black
- PSU
- Corsair 1000W
- Case
- Coolermaster HAF 932
- Cooling
- Water Cooling
- Keyboard
- Saitek Cyborg
- Mouse
- MS Generic w/wheel
- Internet Speed
- Cable - 15mbps
- Other Info
- None