Still looking and shopping for a computer.

[{ESC}Myth]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6811139003

and i'd recommend this case. Have it, love it, cable management is a dream.

also, look at the corsair h50, h60 or h70 for CPU liquid cooling. I have the h50 in a stock setup (pulling cool air from outside the case) and my max CPU temp right now has been 51*C on core 4 of a Q6600 under a full load.

As a note, I have my q6600 oc'ed to 3.2 ghz from the stock 2.4 ghz. Prior to installing the h50, the 6600 ran at 71*C on the stock cooler provided by intel

Thats interesting to note becuase I run an OC'd Phenom IIx4 @ 3.5Ghz with just an oversized heatsink and it doesn't even touch 40c on full load.

I'll have to run some benchmarks on it and get the actual core temp data, but if I pull up my OC utilities none of them show above 40c reagrdless of what games/ programs I'm running.

well, apples and oranges, lol.
my phenom II 955be runs @ 3.2 stock and like you i am running at 3.5. my temps are usually high 40's on stock cooler.
maybe i should reapply my thermal paste just to see if it goes down.

possibly, I know my CPU's thermal paste is on thicker than it should be, but it hasn't effected performance any.
Heres the cooler I'v got on my CPU. Set up in a vertical array 90 degrees offset from the CPU/Mobo.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002G1 ... B002G1YPH0

[{ESC}Myth]

Here's my PC specs.

Case- Antec Three Hundred Illusion – 3 x 120mm + 1 x 140mm ( comes with 2 front fans 1 top fan 1 rear fan all of which are blue LED lit) Fans ahve an internal 3 speed switch per fan to help cool the system, all run very quietly even on high settings)

Mobo- ASRock 870 EXTREME3 AM3 870 SATA6Gb/s USB3.0 CF 8x/8x

CPU- AMD Athlon II X3 455 3.3GHz AM3 95W Triple-Core *Note* Mobo core unlocker unlocks 4th core witha simple toggle

-CPU Cooler- Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus

GPU- Radeon Sapphire HD 6850 1GB

RAM- GeIL Value PLUS 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600

HDD- SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 1TB SATA II 3.0Gb/s

DVD- ASUS SATA 24X DVD Burner

PSU- SeaSonic M12II 620W 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified


Can run anything on the market now at high/max settings

[{ESC}zeno]

Thats interesting to note becuase I run an OC'd Phenom IIx4 @ 3.5Ghz with just an oversized heatsink and it doesn't even touch 40c on full load.

I'll have to run some benchmarks on it and get the actual core temp data, but if I pull up my OC utilities none of them show above 40c reagrdless of what games/ programs I'm running.

well, apples and oranges, lol.
my phenom II 955be runs @ 3.2 stock and like you i am running at 3.5. my temps are usually high 40's on stock cooler.
maybe i should reapply my thermal paste just to see if it goes down.

possibly, I know my CPU's thermal paste is on thicker than it should be, but it hasn't effected performance any.
Heres the cooler I'v got on my CPU. Set up in a vertical array 90 degrees offset from the CPU/Mobo.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002G1 ... B002G1YPH0

i like that cooler. did you have to remove the motherboard to install (as mentioned in some of the reviews).

[{ESC}Myth]

To reduce the amount of quote spam. No I didn't have to remove the mobo to install it as I was assembling the PC from parts. I wisely mounted the heatsink/fans BEFORE mounting the Mobo to the case
This also gave me the additional benefit of having somewhere to hold onto the Mobo during the rest of the assembly. my only issue is that becuase its so tall It interfered with cabling some, though i really didn't put much effort into effective cabling this time out. Eventually i will.