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fits on my abit nf7-s rev 2.0 if that helps...should check the thermalright site see if it fits your board and if so then likely it will fit the case. I have a 120mm fan on the top of mine and i had to move the psu up a few mm to make it fit.

Thermal paste is always better than thermal pads...well almost all of the time. I believe that thermalright sends some white thermal paste. Artic silver is the premier thermal paste for the reason that their thermal paste has such low thermal resistance due to the silver in it. Thus I would...

I would have to say in this case it isnt so clear cut. He dropped his thermal temperatures and didnt increase the voltage. The two killers of processors are voltage and thermal differentials ie the difference in temps between load and idle. The larger the differential the worse it is for the...

Their are many kinds of liquids that can be used. But, yes the pressure could be postive or negative depending on the liquid. The main consideration is the high latent heat of evaportation and thus its ability to "soak" up a great amount of thermal energy, low viscosities of both the liquids and...

I believe that the liquid in a heatpipe would have quite a low boiling point around 30C, and thus the si-97 would have a lower amount of evaporation with the heatpipe liquid going on at that temp. Now this is not to say, your processor is being cooled to 30C, but it is still emitting heat...

The short answer is that SilenX fans are no where near what they are rated. Now this isnt bad...it just means that they do not conform to their rated specs. Better fans would be globe, nexus and yate loon. I have both the yate loons and the silenX. They both are sleeve bearings and are very...

yes that is fine, and I am trying to explain to you given what I believe your case temp to be that isnt possible and it was under reporting..simply that, and that given a couple assumptions your current temps are better than average...maybe again a tad low

I am sorry the load temps for your P4 must of been misreading they couldnt of been that low unless your case temps were below 20C ie are you in a basement? Since the P4 at 4ghz would put out over 100Ws, even if it only puts out 100Watts the sp94 is essentially the same C/W as teh xp-120 so...

Water cooling isnt much better with a super high cfm fan ie 120mm delta i think the xp-120 gets down to about .18C/W while water cooling is about .12 so with again 100W estimated heat load the difference is only 6C or 18C vs 12 C. You are using the best heatsink that is made and it is quite good...

that is extremely good temperatures, yet you still managed to omit your case temperatures during idle or load and thus any conclusions about how well or bad your cooler is doing is almost irrelevant since they are based off of assumptions... The best way to do it is using the C/W of the...

No one can tell you the answer to that data without assuming things, that would suck if your case temperature were -90C since the differential between the idle and the case temp would be 120C. Also, idle temps dont mean much it is the variance between the idle and the load temperature which...

You have a couple of options. 1) A new heatsink would be a good bet since the prescott puts out quite alot of wattage. I would go for a heatsink that is able to use a larger fan say 92mm or >. The choice between copper and aluminum is hard since most aluminum heatsinks use heatpipes...

pretty much any memory above 280 is luck of the draw...however gskill seems to have a ddr400-ddr600 kit...which is supposed to be good, think the guys over at madshrimps have been having some fun with it # The LD is rated at CL2 3:3:6 at 200MHz and CL 2.5 4:4:8 at 275MHz # The LE is rated...

silenx lies about their db numbers. Simply put, they make quite fans, not the best but not the worst. They are so overprices. Their db are insanely out of wack. Check www.silentpcreview.com, they have imense knowledge about which fans are great. They dont recommend silenx fans and I wouldnt...