dan wrote:i'm sure when that happens the fanless cpu will come out with new mounts.
Im not too sure of that, honestly imo it seems they are more on the way out. Their coolers have become harder to get and more expensive over time. When i bought my NoFan95C was $99, now they are $135 and not many sell them, so i dont have that much hope on seeing a AM4 mount, but who knows, maybe they just released their stuff cheaper at the begining and now they want to make a profit.
dan wrote:i wish nofan would come out with a model that is intermediate between c80 and c95
The C80 was the response out the C95 being too big, the C80 was their cooler to not take PCIe slots, but their cooling area is much smaller and thus its capablity, but you going with APU, im sure C80 will be able to cool it down, as long as you can find a way to mount it.
dan wrote:what are your thoughts on nofan just heat pipes no fins vs thermalright heatpipes with fins?
Coolers are design by engieneers, there is more than one way to do something in life, so are the cooling heatsinks, pipes where not around fron the begining, we usually had direct contact heatsinks, over time with the view of creating bigger coolers and the restrictions of not having a huge chunk of metal on our motherboard because it could break it, then heat pipes and fins appear, giving more area to disipate and an efficient way to travel the heat to them. Now Thermalright follows a more traditional todays design, cooper heatpipes and aluminium fins, NoFan has a very interesting design, they have heat pipes that come from the cpu to the bottom circle of the cooler, then alluminium/cooper things (not sure how to call them) go all over the circle and this are the ones that realy dissipate the heat, its not the same as fins, but works similar and its massive size makes it work
dan wrote:thing is nofan 95 was lab tested by spcr so i can trust it
So is thermalright HR22, and Scythe Ninja4, Kotetsu, among a lot of coolers.
dan wrote:i'm worried about case compatibility
I dont think cases will be much of an issue, unless you are trying to get something pretty small, the cooler is big and goes over components on the motherboard, but its not as tall that wont fit a standard case like R5, and sideways it wont go over, its more that you have to install most things before you mount the motheboard, like the memory, and in my case the fan cables, the case cables, etc. But once you figure it out, it can be used in a lot of cases, still crossecheck the one you finally chose.
dan wrote:any thoughts on dual chamber atx cases?
As most cases, they work, i just did a build on a Corsair 740 (SimMi signature), and it has a chamber for the PSU and another for the rest fo the components, to me they are much easier to work with, with little effort you get great cable management where it matters, as long as you have the extra space they require its a good case overall, but certainly there are other options that should end up quieter since you probably dont need as much cooling with the APU.