Corsair a70

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darkshadow

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I just built my computer pretty recently,I spent all the money on the components and didn't get a cpu cooler. I was looking at the nh d14 but I won't be doing the highest overclocks possible. The corsair hydro series make me cringe with the prices/performance. So I saw the corsair a70, I looked up some benchmarks and I saw it didn't do bad at all compared to the other high end air coolers. The price isn't expensive either, it is 31 dollars after a mail in rebate from newegg. Is it a good cooler to get for an overclock to 3.8 ghz?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181011&Tpk=corsair a70

this is a link to the corsair a70
 
darkshadow said:
I just built my computer pretty recently,I spent all the money on the components and didn't get a cpu cooler. I was looking at the nh d14 but I won't be doing the highest overclocks possible. The corsair hydro series make me cringe with the prices/performance. So I saw the corsair a70, I looked up some benchmarks and I saw it didn't do bad at all compared to the other high end air coolers. The price isn't expensive either, it is 31 dollars after a mail in rebate from newegg. Is it a good cooler to get for an overclock to 3.8 ghz?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181011&Tpk=corsair a70

this is a link to the corsair a70
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IMO you may just about do it.

Also depends what voltage and cpu make it is
 
darkshadow said:
My cpu is the i7 950. I am a novice overclocker though, so I don't know if I can do it.
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Providing your 950's not from a mutha tuckingly aweful batch, and with some Arctic Silver 5/ NT-H1 league thermal paste, you stand a decent chance, but be prepared to settle for ~3.6 if it's not quite up to it. Intel's seem to cope with heat pretty handsomely.

Go for it mate.
 
Fodr Kreatr said:
Providing your 950's not from a mutha tuckingly aweful batch, and with some Arctic Silver 5/ NT-H1 league thermal paste, you stand a decent chance, but be prepared to settle for ~3.6 if it's not quite up to it. Intel's seem to cope with heat pretty handsomely.

Go for it mate.
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I know what you mean mate, Ive just finished my overclock on a 950 with a Sabertooth x58 and Ive definitely got a voltage hungry one.

For your info darkshadow mine needs a hefty 1.34375 vcore in the bios to get to the golden 4GHZ overclock. The average 950 can do 4GHZ anywhere from 1.25 vcore all the way up to 1.35 vcore.

So that is the sort of vcore area your looking to test from (start lower, around 1.22v for your 3.8 target though)...from what i gather nearly all 950s 'should' get to 4GHZ so if your target is 3.8GHZ then you should be fine.

You could always look at the Noctua NH-U12P cooler its the next one down from the NH-D14 in price and performance - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-010-NC&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395

Good luck with the overclock - for stability and max heat testing i used 'intel burn test' on 32threads and maximum memory for about 10 runs.

Tom
 
Fodr Kreatr said:
Well, are you fussed about the brown fans?
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Yea their POO /leaves
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darkshadow said:
Is the nh-u12p an upgrade that is worth it? I've seen some tests and they seem pretty close together. http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1389/6/
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That set of results for the 3.8Ghz test on the 920 is pretty good when you think the A70 is only 2 degrees off the NH-D14 - only thing that is concerning is the noise. I used a H50 for bit and that single fan from corsair was noisy as hell. The A70 has 2 and the test says the fans were on high to get those temps.

The Noctua will prob be a much quieter option for the money - Just a browner option as well tho
 
GrabYa8Plus1 said:
That set of results for the 3.8Ghz test on the 920 is pretty good when you think the A70 is only 2 degrees off the NH-D14 - only thing that is concerning is the noise. I used a H50 for bit and that single fan from corsair was noisy as hell. The A70 has 2 and the test says the fans were on high to get those temps.

The Noctua will prob be a much quieter option for the money - Just a browner option as well tho
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Think that's how corsair make their money, skimpin' on the fans.

And then by the time you've replaced fans on the A70 to quiten it down, you may as well have bought the D-14 and be done with.

Trying to avoid buying a D-14 is like attempting division by zero! It just keeps leading to the same soloution!!
 
GrabYa8Plus1 said:
Blobby yep.

I'd love to see a sharkoon engineer's face after designing the so called perfect 'golf ball' fan blades - and them get called blobby.

Your right tho - at least there not brown
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Brown golf ball fans D: ergghhhhh *cringes*

If noctua made black fans with brown rims, they'd get a huge sales increase as opposed to all out sh*t on a motor look. They're good quality fans, why ruin them
 
I've got aan A70, keeps my I5 760 @ 4GHz about 35c idle, raises to about 50c after playing games for about a hour.
 
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