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bomberboysk · 07-20-2008, 05:19 AM

Unless theres a large difference in temperature then its not going to drop your cpu temp by much. And for stress testing, get yourself prime95, the newer one has multi core support, so it will run multiple threads. Also, could you get a measurement from the bottom of the current heatsink to where your side panel is? that way we could know what heatsinks would fit in your tower. From what i saw, isnt the sonata III considered a mid tower? Mabye not, but im pretty sure i read somewhere that its considered a mid tower case... But just thinking about coolers, you could go for something like the zalman 7500 which should be able to fit on most cases and can be found Here. If you have a good amount of space between the cpu and side panel i would recommend a tower cooler such has the xigmatek s1283, but its a somewhat large cooler, so we would need to make sure theres enough room.

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bomberboysk Gold Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Stark County,Ohio Age: 15 Posts: 435	Unless theres a large difference in temperature then its not going to drop your cpu temp by much. And for stress testing, get yourself prime95, the newer one has multi core support, so it will run multiple threads. Also, could you get a measurement from the bottom of the current heatsink to where your side panel is? that way we could know what heatsinks would fit in your tower. From what i saw, isnt the sonata III considered a mid tower? Mabye not, but im pretty sure i read somewhere that its considered a mid tower case... But just thinking about coolers, you could go for something like the zalman 7500 which should be able to fit on most cases and can be found Here. If you have a good amount of space between the cpu and side panel i would recommend a tower cooler such has the xigmatek s1283, but its a somewhat large cooler, so we would need to make sure theres enough room. __________________ Cpu: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 @ 3,950Mhz AIR, RVT-12025 Cooler. Mobo: EVGA 790i Ultra SLI-P07 Bios Video Card: XFX 9800GTX Black Edition 799/1997/2450 Ram: 4(2x2)gb OCZ Gold 1333Mhz DDR3 9-9-9-26 Case: Xclio Windtunnel Advanced Sound: Creative Sound Blaster X-fi Fatal1ty Championship Edition, Logitech Z-5500's Hard Drives: Twin 7200.11 Barracudas 32mb cache 500gig(1TB total) - Raid 0 FOLDING FOR THE GOOD OF MANKIND :F@H Team 44358 Contributions: Q9450/PS3/9800GTX MCCAIN/PALIN 08 Last edited by bomberboysk; 07-20-2008 at 05:29 AM.