Weekend Open Forum: Do you use a custom cooler?

Nothing to flaunt here for me either. I keep meaning to step it up and do a complete rig out with all the latest stuff, but i'm just always bloody working or doing something else.

Then again, I would say that i'm not 'bursting' to get a new set up with a custom cooler, my little E3200 does everything i ask of it without breaking any sweats.

Cooler Master V6GT

I have a shelf full of OEM HS/F's as well. My ten year old daughter was in the shop last week and started looking at the shelf of old motherboards. Being the artistic soul she is, made the observation that they look like "tiny cityscapes" a couple hours later she turned an AM2+ DFI 790 FX M2RS into a rather nifty diorama, and lit it with some LED's.

I use a Cooler Master V8 with my Phenom II X4 955 BE. Processor is currently running at stock clocks but I plan to overclock it to around 4 Ghz while waiting for Bulldozer to arrive. I hope the V8 is up to the task.

CPU:
First: Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro
Second: OCZ Vendetta 2
Current: Zalman Flex

Stock cooling is for suckers.

Unless you live near the equator with no air conditioning fps, The V-8 will cope nicely with a 4.0Ghz OC on a 955. i had a V8 on an Phenom II x6 @ 4.2 with additional Voltage and it handled it nicely.

Not since my Athlon Xp 3200 (areo 7 plus). The size and weight of most aftermarket coolers have made me worry that they'll damage the motherboard.

I was also initially concerned about the weight of some of the aftermarket coolers but many of the higher end units have mounting systems that replace the stock brackets. At one point was running a Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 with dual fans on my X58 system, wasn't a problem and can see no evidence of it warping the motherboard.

For my latest build I used the stock cooler that comes with the i7-2600k, with no immediate plans to overclock yet. However, the fan nose was irritating me, so within a week, I upgraded to a zalman 120mm CPU cooler. Fan runs slow and silent.

955be @ 3.6
corsair H70

the stock that came with my phenom wasn't that bad tbh

I don't overclock so I use the stock cooler. I'd like to hear of horror stories of leaky water coolers.

38 Degrees Celsius is just a hair over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. You're telling me you run your computer in a room that's over 90 degrees?

Okay, so I didn't realize the reply function would put the comment all the way at the end... this was in response to the guest earlier who said, "I have an i5-2500k @ 4.0Ghz with a H70, and it idles around 38-40 Celsius in a room that?s about 7-10 degrees cooler then that."

No Custom cooler needed, simply because I never OC any thing.

Yes!!...but Don't you need one with the weather in Canbritnorealand?

Cooling my i7 950 with a Silver Arrow.Love it.

only thermal paste i put.

no..
stock is fine.. phenom II x6

My computer has not had trouble running any game at max settings since I built it 2 years ago. So its not over clocked. Click on my system specs for details. I use the stock cpu fan and added a very strong back fan 120mm, the case came with 2 240 mm fans. I also added a pcie fan below my video card. The fans I added were 10$ or so each. I do regret not getting some sort of after market cpu fan or liquid cpu cooler. Simply because it gets to loud while playing games. I live in Arizona in the second hottest place in the USA only 2nd to death valley. My computer never over heats. Yes I have ac but I notice a huge difference in temperatures from summer to winter.

The stock cooler that shipped with my AMD hex core was so damn loud it was deafening. I was forced to get an aftermarket cooler which is extremely quiet.