To be honest, I think these top coolers are all about equal. I almost believe it comes down to the mount. I did notice a rather large difference (over 5c) loaded on my E8400 vs. my zalman.

so it almost makes sense for cooler manufacturers to invest more R&D into mounting hardware then to minimise the bad mount effect i guess

It does have a nice mount.

I hate the THor's Hammer Mount, unless you're previous employee at the WillyWonka Chocolate Factory with iddy biddy hands, you won't get any gorrilla paws in there to screw it down.

Put two 125cfm Delta's on my Noctua and it brought by cpu temp down 10C. Previoulsy I had one of the Noctua fans and a CM garbage fan on it. Runs in the low 30s which isn't far from water temps.

WOW very nice!

Well I meant a proper mount on the cpu lol, but you are right. Most coolers mounting SUCKS!! Megahalem is very easy to work with other than the fact one of the holes were off on the 1366 holes. Pissed me off for sure.

This cooler is about a 1000x's easier to mount up than anything I've used before. Such a relief for a quick change type of guy. Shoulda checked this one out from the git go. Thx chuchnit.

Neuromancer will have to fight with the Thor's Hammer mount from here on out, lol.

are you referring to the Megahelams? I've heard nothing but great thing, supposed to be the best cooler out there heh?

Hah, now I know why you sent it to me! Because I specifically said I was saving up for the megahalem :p

Well it is going to be stressed on I7, hope i dont ruptre any heatpipes!!! :p

(hmm really should get another panflo 38mm fan to make a nice push pull setup... )

jk.... Thanks again Kal. Will have Mjolnir back to you safe and sound inside a month :)





side note
Any see that 92mm Coolermaster heatsink with offeset push pull config? Looked really interesting if it has a high fin density the turbulence cause by the design coupled with some 38mm high pressure fans could really make it something

92mm fan size limits it of course... but the design looks interesting..

Yah Chicken_patty, was talkin bout the megaharlem, its groovy :cool1:

I've heard nothing but great things about it, I would love to try one out one day. I wanna get a few more crunchers going in the future, so maybe I'll get a Megahalem for one of those :D

Ok I am about ready to pick up one of these for a new round of testing coming soon, so I could use a little advice as I am not a real air cooler guy.

I am looking for a HS that will give me the max cooling possible with air and have the ability to use ducted cold air later on.

This is it

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/96...ml?id=xnhUjsyK

So in reading the description this does not come with a AM3 mount ?
It looks like it will mount up all types including the Core I5

What would be the best fans to use with this ?
I want to run push pull with teh max air flow I can get, so high RPM and CFM.

You won't be dissapointed with that cooler man. Not sure what fans are best for it, but some deltas should be good. You looked into Deltas?

No not yet, I have no clue really on fans, do you have a link ?

http://www.frozencpu.com/cat/l3/g36/...ml?id=WC9wiKvv

How about this one, will it work with that HS ?

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/81...?tl=g36c15s562

You can run just about any fan Bill, If its too large for the fastening clip, bend it, if its still too large, rubber bands work GREAT! I'm running with rubber bands now, sick results. :D

Rubber bands, tie wraps you name it. However I think they do sell 38mm clips.


That 252 cfm delta should flow pretty effin sick :laugh: might give your computer imaginary wings :p

HAHA yeah I bet it will. I decided to go with just 1 fan for now to see how it works. With the flow that one has I dont think 2 will be needed, but who knows, besides those fans are not cheap :(

try not to cut your fingers off buckeye, those fans are serious business.

I am very interested on seeing how they perform as my bench rig which I hope to have running sometime end this year/early next year will be at first air cooled with the same setup.

I bet.

LOL I had to put a fan grille on my wimpy in comaprison panaflo fan

It'll make yah BLEED!

Blood does conduct electricity so not a good combo ;)

HAHA I wil keep that in mind.

I remember when Punx busted one of these at the benching party. HAHA was to funny, but made a lot of noise :)

Megahalem has arrived

The Delta fan is a monster, it slices, dices and chops and grinds. It makes as much or more noise as the Cascade does LOL.

The air output of this thing can be felt 3 feet away. I tired to show this in the video but the wind is to strong and the paper just blows stright.

Note that I put a fan guard on it as it only had bare blades with no guards at all and I thought it might be a wise idea to put a guard on it LOL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6ao4cek4IU

LOL nice fan Bill!

I used to put my Nidec Beta V (Industrial 120mm fan) on the desk blowing straight down and play air hockey with it :)

that Delta would probably flip itself over LOL

so how are the temps buck? nice setup bro, thing looks sickkk!

Looks Kool ;)

Thats a new setup I will be doing a review on shortly

Thanks, looking forward to it :)

Holy crap that looks like a monster :clapping:

While i was troubleshooting and re applying TIM on the NB/SB the other day.

I have been troubleshooting for a while now. Having issues again with the GX2. I think it was just a bad PCI-E connector. I changed that and reseated the card and its fine now.

http://img.techpowerup.org/091130/PB284324wallpaper.jpg
http://img.techpowerup.org/091130/PB284325wallpaper.jpg

Nice pics chx patty! :)

Thats a nice shot CP.

Thanks rogue and kal.


I got some new ram to bench with. been wanting to try it out but shit, plagued with issues left and right.

I know it's not a Mega Harlem, but some nice shots nonetheless


Enjoy :)

Here are some more pics, this is my C2D cruncher :toast: The second pic I didn't even notice I caught a piece of the heat sink :laugh:

http://img.techpowerup.org/091130/PB304332edited.jpg

X300 FTMFW!! :rockout:
http://img.techpowerup.org/091130/PB304336edited.jpg



and my favorite shot, possibly of all time, so crisp and just beautiful
http://img.techpowerup.org/091130/PB304334edited.jpg

Pretty clear photos, what cam you using?

Thanks. Olympus E-500