Tuniq or Ultra-120 all else equal

jjoshua2 · Post by **jjoshua2** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:17 pm

I have a yate loon and a SI-120 cooling my q6600 now and it runs too hot. I might try laping the si-120, but I might upgrade. If I can get either the TT or U-120 used for the same price or with $7, which should I get for quiet cooling performance? It seems they are about equal. Is one easier to install or any other factors that should decide me?

Thanks!

Dazrin · Post by **Dazrin** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:33 pm

I have the Tuniq and should have gotten the U-120 for silence purposes. The Tuniq has to be way down to be "quiet enough", I can't turn it down enough to be silent using the fan and controller they provide. I have seen several recommendations about not changing the fan because of pressure drop too, so changing the fan may not be a good idea.

I don't have too demanding of a requirement either.

Wibla · Post by **Wibla** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 2:19 pm

Ultra 120 extreme with a nexus or scythe fan...

Bragging pic:

thejamppa · Post by **thejamppa** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 3:07 pm

either TR Ultra 120/eXtreme or TR SI-128 SE.

mr_plow_king · Post by **mr_plow_king** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 3:41 pm

I don't think you can easily change the fan in the Tuniq so I suggest you go with the Thermalright and choose your fan like a Scythe flex or a yate loon.

However, your SI-120 should be enough to cool your CPU, what are your temps ? which fan are you using ?

mcoleg · Post by **mcoleg** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:04 pm

how do you mean? just put a new fan in, that's all. tuniq works very nice with a yate-loon.

jjoshua2 · Post by **jjoshua2** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 8:21 pm

My current fan is a low speed yate loon. My temp on my highest core when all four were load was 78C.

Idle was in the sixties.
I reapplied AS5 and idles droped to 54 for the highest core. Load was the same.

I just lapped my si-120 and haven't retried the temps. I got the heatsink wet and I'm not sure how dry to wait for it to get before my curiosity gets the better of me.

If I never post again, I probably got electrocuted when I turned it on

jjoshua2 · Post by **jjoshua2** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 9:14 pm

I booted it up fine and no sparks. Load is now 74 hottest 70 coolest core. So lapping helped about 5C.

mr_plow_king · Post by **mr_plow_king** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:53 am

Idle at 54C is pretty much impossible with a stock cooler unless your temperature in the case is 40-45c. The SI-120 should be much better than the stock cooler.

did you calibrate the temperature sensor ? I've seen sensors with a 15C offset

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article191-page2.html

use the Intel TAT program to load the CPU and read the temperature

http://www.overclock.net/downloads/1381 ... l-tat.html

vortex222 · Post by **vortex222** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 10:31 am

mr_plow_king wrote: use the Intel TAT program to load the CPU and read the temperature

i thought TAT was no longer considered the best program to use, as it was ment for the first Pentium M and cant load the C2D's properly? CPUBurn or Prime95 hot torture may work to get slightly higher temps.

Its just something i read somewhere i may be wrong.

panda-R · Post by **panda-R** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:50 am

Hey, i guess i'm the only one here on this board that is using the Tuniq Tower. Most of the people here are concerned about silence and neither the Tuniq or the U-120 are geared for low fan speed/low noise... but i can CONFIRM that the Tuniq even with low fan speed in a low airflow case provides AMPLE cooling! I choose the Tuniq over the U-120X because of the mounting mechanism.

Anyhow, I love my Tuniq because the mounting mechanism was stress free and no worries.. it's secure!

tehfire · Post by **tehfire** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:56 am

vortex222 wrote:
mr_plow_king wrote: use the Intel TAT program to load the CPU and read the temperature
i thought TAT was no longer considered the best program to use, as it was ment for the first Pentium M and cant load the C2D's properly? CPUBurn or Prime95 hot torture may work to get slightly higher temps.

Its just something i read somewhere i may be wrong.

TAT loads Core marchitecture processors very well, be it Core 1/Core 2. I think the main thing I've heard against it is it doesn't alert you if the data the processor spits back out is in error.

For thermal testing, I use TAT. I use Orthos or similar to ensure stability.

Tuniq or Ultra-120 all else equal

Tuniq or Ultra-120 for quiet performance?

Tuniq or Ultra-120 all else equal

Ultra 120