Regarding thermal pastes, can you share your experiences using different ones? Please include price to performance opinions.
Gamit ko usually mx-4 and it's been easy to use. Nasubukan ko din mx-5 dahil may kasama sa Liquid freezer ko, kaso ang lapot sobra and ang hirap spread. Prior to this Arctic Silver gamit ko, kaso parang ang mahal na nya ngayon kaya di na ako bumili ulit.
Any info on the cheaper ones and the expensive ones like thermal grizzly? What about yung mga free sa aftermarket coolers?
I've just recently used Thermalright TFX (14.3w/mk) on 2 Ryzen 9 systems: a 3900x and a 5950x. I saw a 2-3 degree celsius improvement over MX-4 on Cinebench.
Nabili ko yung TFX sa sharpee habang sale, 600 pisos for the 2g (kasama na shipping).
EDIT: just to add, medyo malapot siya at di na kailangan ng curing, kaya heto pinili ko over the others
^Black Ridge + Noctua NF-A9x14 fan swap pero problema availability, may nakita ako sa Sh*pee pero 2020 pa yun + duda ako kung kasya sa mga LGA 1700 ITX boards nang hindi magtatanggal ng heatsinks.
Readily available yung AXP90-X47 FULL and LGA 1700 kit locally sa L*zada. Yung ginamit niya sa test older version na AXP90R, baka may konti pang improvement.
My cousin gave me his old desktop PC with Core i7 2600 processor. The fan on the CPU cooler is busted; it looks like a Cooler Master X Dream I117 <click here for link>. Is there a readily available replacement fan for it?
If there isn't, what's the cheapest recommended CPU cooler for an i7 2600?
I used an Ice Edge Mini once for an i5 7th gen, ok naman with minimal OC, hindi nag throttle. The i7 2600 can run fine with the stock Intel heatsink so the Ice Edge Mini should be an upgrade.
mga sir papasok po ba sa case ko (Tecware M1) yung Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212 LED Turbo White CPU Cooler ?
planning to do upgrade kasi po ng procie to 5600x isasabay ko na yung cooler. or may recommended po kayo na mas ok na cooler.
@Verbl_Kint
But a 7th gen i5 is only 65w, while a 2nd gen i7 is 95w.
BTW, I dug into my box of parts, found a stock Intel 1155 heatsink, and installed it on the motherboard. Frankly I wasn't impressed-- a mere 7zip benchmark got it above 70c in no time at all.
Back then, tower coolers like the Hyper 212 and Ice Blade Pro were recommended for cooling Sandy Bridge quad-cores. It's starting to look like an Ice Edge Mini won't be enough.
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Try the ID-Cooling SE-224xt. It usually goes for 1,300++. Might be lower during the 6.6 sale in a few days.
Temps ko while using that with a Ryzen 3600: 38-65.
@lordseph
Not willing to spend that much on a decade-old machine TBH, especially since I don't know if the PCIe x16 slot works or not. Right now I'm considering the ID-Cooling SE-902SD or Gammaxx 400 EX, which I found by limiting the price range to 1k and below.
@awakeruze I mentioned the Ice Edge Mini since it was the cheapest but good-enough cooler for the i7 2600. If you're willing to spend over ?800 for a cooler then get a better one, by all means. ;-)
Was able to get a Galahad 360mm for less than 6.7k during the 6.6 sale (yung hindi naka uni fan). I tried looking for a better white 360mm cooler for the price but the only decent one under 7k were: the aforementioned Galahad, Thermalright Aqua Elite, and the Cooler Master ML360 v2.
But then there was this Yeston I considered but ultimately decided it was too kawaii for me. :P