CPUs and cooling...

[Chz]

6700k is 5% faster than the 6700 at stock. Might have to look into changing over to a BeQuiet cooler then.

Given that with adequate cooling they'll both be spending most of their lives at their turbo frequencies... I don't think there's very much in that 200Mhz. The greatly elevated base frequency on the K might be worth it if you're planning on running all cores 100% for long periods, but that's the only real advantage I can see. The most common use that gives such heavy core use is virtualization, and the K is missing a few helpful features that accelerate that. (Intel are bastards about that. I'd love a K with the full feature set turned on.)

To be honest, I was thinking of the 6600 and 6600K (which I own) where the turbo frequency is actually identical.

 

[ohmyliver]

yeah the full virtualisation feature set not being present on the K varient is annoying, as I do plan to run various VMs (for QA purposes). But given that I spent 6 months or so painfully running VMs from a usb 2 key drive on a 5 year old Macbook pro, it'll still be better than that.

*eta* yeah yeah I probably should have got an x99 5820k rather than a 6700k as well.

 

[WWWeed]

So far nothing I've found meets or exceeds the bang for your buck you get from the Arctic Freezer heatsinks. Think scan have one for about £16-£17.

I'm open to suggestions on other stuff but they better be good! I build a fair amount of pcs (prob between 10-50 a year) and the Arctic Freezer Pro heatsinks is my usual choice as they are cheap, almost silent and have great performance! I am however unsure how much of this is down to the excellent Arctic sliver compound that comes pre-applied. I've got a tube or two somewhere but it's been ages since I have used any since it's just so much easier, less hassle and mess to get a heatsink with it pre applied.

 

[Epona]

Each to their own , but somehow I dont think the OP is going to build a super computer for £1000 that will warrant that much cooling.

I'm not buying a computer at all, I'm looking at new CPU and mobo as an upgrade. The £1000 thing only came into it because if my husband knows I am upgrading he will go "wah I want the same" which will potentially double the cost because I'll have to buy 2 of everything - I'm only looking at spending £500 on mine for CPU, fan, and mobo (I have all the other components, this is an upgrade to my currently weak CPU, not a new build).

 

[Epona]

£1000 will buy you a full rig... What do you want from it? What do you have and what are your goals?

My goal is for people to read my posts before replying - I am looking at spending £500 on upgrading my CPU, budget to include a necessary new motherboard and a fan. That's it, I am not after a full rig. I am just upgrading. The £1000 only came into it as a thought in case I have to upgrade my husband's rig too - so that's £500 upgrade budget per PC, not a £1000 budget for 1 new PC.

There are 2 gamers and 2 gaming PCs in this house, so upgrade budgets have to take that into consideration.

 

[ruffneck23]

My goal is for people to read my posts before replying

That's a bit rude, even with the smiley , I suggest you use google in future

 

[ruffneck23]

I'm not buying a computer at all, I'm looking at new CPU and mobo as an upgrade. The £1000 thing only came into it because if my husband knows I am upgrading he will go "wah I want the same" which will potentially double the cost because I'll have to buy 2 of everything - I'm only looking at spending £500 on mine for CPU, fan, and mobo (I have all the other components, this is an upgrade to my currently weak CPU, not a new build).

 

[Epona]

That's a bit rude, even with the smiley , I suggest you use google in future

What, for better sarcastic smiley options? I clearly stated early on exactly what I wanted to upgrade (I had already decided on a CPU, just wanted to know about coolers), and that my budget for cpu/mobo/fan was £400-500.

Anyone saying "you can build a rig for £1000" clearly HADN'T read my specifications (or understood that was the budget to upgrade 2 PCs - up to £500 per machine). I wasn't asking for build advice beyond wanting to know about coolers for the chip that I am looking at - which is clearly indicated by the thread title.

Exactly 1 person in this entire 2 page discussion has provided a link to a suitable air cooler (for which I am very grateful), the rest of the posts mostly seem to be debating things that aren't relevant to the question I asked - my apologies for trying to clarify what it was I was asking.

 

[ruffneck23]

Whether they read the op correctly or not, people have still taken time to answer your request as try and assist you, although it may be frustrating for you coming back with sarky replies does not do you any favours.

 

[Epona]

Whether they read the op correctly or not, people have still taken time to answer your request as try and assist you, although it may be frustrating for you coming back with sarky replies does not do you any favours.

It would be helpful to come back to replies that answered the question I asked: Which cooler should I use for the Intel Core 6700k processor? Rather than discussions about other things.

I had one question - either people have a suggestion, or they don't. I'd appreciate suggestions that answer the question I asked.

 

[ruffneck23]

I think youl find the first answer i gave was answer

id get a corsair h55 self contained water cooler,well i used to have one...for 49.99

Corsair Hydro Series H55 Liquid CPU Cooler | Maplin

you can get them cheaper on ebay, but they are really quiet and keep the heat down

The rest was a discussion with Saul Goodman over air / water cooling which you seem to have take offence at, but also contained some good points, but don't worry I wont be trying to help you again.

 

[Epona]

I haven't taken offence at anything
I thanked Saul for his input. I am interested in air cooling rather than water cooling, but thank you for your input too.

The only comments I don't get are those that wonder what sort of PC my budget will build - when my budget is not to build a PC, it's for some small upgrades. I posted to clarify that, and you seem to have got a bit shirty about it, which I really don't understand.

 

[ohmyliver]

To sum up your Air cooling options are roughly

cheap and good - Arctic Freezer - 17 quid
less cheap and better - 212 Evo or the BeQuiet one mentioned (which I regret not finding out before I brought the Evo, even though the Evo is popular and highly rated) 20-30 quid
much less cheap and much better - Noctua D14 -60-70 quid

yer pays yer money etc..

Given that you can't use most ddr3 ram with the 6700k chipset, for a motherboard with decent onboard sound (which I presume you want, as a gamer, although you might have a proper sound card already obv), and decent dd4 ram, and 6700k I'd say the BeQuiet one is probably the one to go for, considering you're not wanting to do L33t overclocking, as the D14 will push the whole price above 500

 

[Epona]

Cheers, that's very helpful! So probably need to factor RAM into my budget (not usually a big spend for 8Gb), I think I currently have ddr3 - getting 8gb of ddr4 is not a major spend. I am turning any 'spare' components into a media server anyway, nothing will go to waste. You are quite correct, as a gamer I do not have a dedicated sound card and don't need one, I used to be a bit edgy back in the day and had some fantastic sound setup but the company that did it went bust loooong time ago and I haven't bothered with anything beyond onboard sound for years. I'm hearing impaired anyway.

 

[gosub]

does thermal compound set?

(non IT related problem)

 

[Saul Goodman]

does thermal compound set?

(non IT related problem)

It doesn't set solid but most of it cures and goes harder/dries.

 

[mhendo]

Depends if you're overclocking it or not.
A Noctua D14 is a dog's bollox (air) cooler.

This is what i have in my box.

It's fucking awesome: quiet as anything, and keeps my i5 6600K cool as a cucumber even under the heaviest tasks i throw at it, which top out at video encoding in Premiere Pro or Handbrake while also editing digital images in Lightroom and/or Photoshop.

Be aware that it is BIG. You need good clearance in your case if you want it to fit, and if your RAM slots are right under the fans and heatsink, you might also need to be careful about the height of your RAM sticks.

I'm using a Gigabyte Z170 ATX motherboard with G.Skill Ripjaws DDR4 RAM, inside a Fractal R4 case, and while the memory fits under the cooler, i can't add or remove memory without removing the cooler.

I've got the Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo. It's just short of 30 quid...

If you're not planning to do heavy duty overclocks then the Evo is probably sufficient, and half the price of the D14.

I agree.

To be honest, i probably could and should have gone with the Hyper 212 instead of the Noctua, but i wanted to be extra safe in case i decided to overclock heavily and/or upgrade to the i7 6700K processor. The Cooler Master gets great reviews from basically everyone except the most extreme overclockers.