I've been looking for a cooler that can keep my cpu running cool. Right now I have the stock cpu cooler on it from Intel. I have a Q9400 (Quad Core). I'm on a budget and want one that will keep it cool for video editing. I'm gonna be using Vegas and stuff. I've been looking at this one, so let me know if this will do it. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186134 thanks!
I own one on my cpu q9550 and in gaming it doesn't exceed 50 degrees. Just because my thermal paste messed up it hit about 57 or 58 in prime95. Although it's because I attached it and took it off causing the paste to swirl around. If I never let that happen the most I would be hitting is about 50 in prime95. Overall it's a good cooler.
Ok if you hit that high in prime95, it's a full stress test. you will be getting below 45 with normal uses. Between 60-70 is unsafe. So yes it is a good temperature. And usually Arctic cooling 7 Pro is chosen by mid ranged overclockers.
JMobile, I just purchased one of these as well. I never tried apps like Prime95 on the stock cooler, but with the Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 7, your idle temps may not drop much. They dropped maybe one to two degrees on the idle, but it hasnt managed to over heat during stress tests which is good. I would pick up some Arctic Silver 5 thermal paste with it as it does help a bit in bringing the temps down. Right now I am running 28*C on my coolest core and 35* on my hottest at pretty much an idle load.
thanks for the response. on your hottest core, what are you running that gets it to 35*? I'm planing on rendering videos that might take about 1HR to complete the render.
Well thats the hottest core at idle, which is just a few background system processes running like Nod32,speedfan,keyboard hotkeys app,razer mouse configuration app, and a few others. The only main processes running atm are Firefox(6 tabs) and uTorrent. Both are running between 1-2% of my total system usage. When I get into some gaming later on let me check on my temps and I will report back what there running, but its an older game thats not to demanding. You should be fine none the less though as I have never had heat problems running video conversions to DVD, video editing, or video playback(HD playback at that). My bigger concern for the moment is a gpu cooler as my 900GTX+ has been stuttering a little bit here and there lately.
I would suggest this XIGMATEK HDT-S1283 at newegg It is silent as well as cools MUCH better. Couple dollars more would be well worth it. Just need to make sure your case has room for it. Although it is much smaller than many other big coolers.
The Xigmatek is the cheapest tower cooler, but due to the inefficient core contact system is also the weakest, you get what you pay for. The extra space this cooler takes up in my opinion isn't really worth it for the cooling benefit. It will run quieter than a freezer 7 will have to in order to achieve the same temperatures, but since Arctic produce better fans, at low speed idle, the Freezer 7 may actually be quieter.
sam I have been waiting for your response in private for quite a while. Hope to see an answer. sorry for this post.
Forgive me, but I'd taken a short break from private messages as we're now up to over 300 things you've asked me that you could have googled for the answer to.
since Im looking for something that will keep my CPU cool while I render videos and do lots of editing which will heat up my CPU, are you still recommending the Freezer7? Or do you have something else in mind for a budget under $40?
The freezer 7 is fine for most uses, unless you're going for a big overclock, in which case you should really be using a tower cooler.
I'm not gonna overclock right now. I'm just gonna be doing lots of video and movie editing which does use up some CPU. Last time my PC turned off by its own when I was rendering a video I edited.
It will do just fine. I havent noticed much drop in my idle temps with it tbh, but I have noticed that it keeps my temps down nicely under heavy loads.
