CPU Heatsinks

That's interesting, although I suspect it's more about processor and hard drive speed? I'm sure the Ram will help though as I often have images in Lightroom opened up in Photoshop on the fly through LR among other programs. Hang on, wasn't it you who recommended 16GB? lol
 
gman said:
That's interesting, although I suspect it's more about processor and hard drive speed? I'm sure the Ram will help though as I often have images in Lightroom opened up in Photoshop on the fly through LR among other programs. Hang on, wasn't it you who recommended 16GB? lol
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Possibly :D I'm not saying don't get 16gb though, by all means for future proofing, photoshop (64 bit versions will use as much as they can) and windows will use it as cache etc. just saying that Lightroom doesn't seem to use more than 2-3gb even with heavy use.

It uses more CPU and disk than anything. Andy made a good thread about having your working images on an ssd, even if just temporarily and how Lightroom reacts performance wise.
 
Aye that's what I do, anything current is on the SSD along with the cache and once the job is done it's off to the dinosaur drives. Agree about LR and processor use, as said my CPU fan went mental when exporting!

I have to say, even now that everything is installed as per my last computer this machine flies - everything is almost instant! :D
 
I'm using a be quiet Dark Rock Pro in my dekstop, it's a big cooler but the fans run quiet and I haven't had any hassles. The heatsink overhangs the 1st DIMM socket though, so no memory with tall heatsinks - I ignored that part and had to remove the hs from a stick of RAM (using 4x4GB), can't say it's had any negative effect.

Only pic I have is this one taken during the build, cabling was tidied a little after that one.

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stu.artd said:
I'm using a be quiet Dark Rock Pro in my dekstop, it's a big cooler but the fans run quiet and I haven't had any hassles. The heatsink overhangs the 1st DIMM socket though, so no memory with tall heatsinks - I ignored that part and had to remove the hs from a stick of RAM (using 4x4GB), can't say it's had any negative effect.

Only pic I have is this one taken during the build, cabling was tidied a little after that one.

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I had to turn mines round so all 4 slots of RAM could be used, it was touch and go with the length of fan cable though.
 
iv'e been using the corsair h70 for nearly 2 years with no problems but it's not the quietest cooler by any standards but i overclock the i7 2600k to 4.8gig it gets a bit warm at full pelt but doesn't really worry me and it's been stable for nearly 2 years and is on 24/7 so they can't be all bad
 
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro rev 2 is now installed and I think I'm finally happy. Idle temps aren't much better than the stock (35C) but when running Prime the temp doesn't go above 58C and is very quiet compared to the stock heatsink which was hitting 80C+ and sounded like it was going to launch.

The room is quite hot tonight so may be able to shave a few degrees off under normal conditions but the main thing is it's quiet, cool and doesn't overwhelm the inside of my case so there's still good airflow going on.

Cheers all.


EDIT: It's getting even better, the CPU fan is set at 0% until the temp hits 55C but it stays at 36C without the fan unless under load and the other two MB monitored fans are set for 50%. Very impressive cooling from a not so big heatsink.
 
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