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Alvin777

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Hello Apple and Mac friends.

What brand and model is the heatsink and cooler on this? It's a low profile cooler w/ rubber shock absorber to mount (what's the proper name for those rubber mounters?) the fan to the heatsink and it's for the Intel Q6600 (socket LGA775, a CPU from 2007, 15 years ago). The fan is pretty stylish (and Apple users are usually into function as well as form/looks):

Stylish Low Profle Heatsink and Fan for Q6600.png
 
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Sadly these low profile designs are pretty common.

Noctua offers one of the better ones
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BeQuiet is also a good brand
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Here's another one


Thanks, ID cooling's also branded which is nice. Research to optimize is always a grueling days to week of research, 16 hour a day, when it comes to parts (I can't wait to just buy a Mac X-D and save a lot of time but it's for a client), sometimes you wish you could just buy the best parts reviewed by the usual top PC reviewers and budget is almost unlimited (Elon Musk) but a few days to a week of research mean years of service.

:)

I found the cooler w/ the cool looking round fan (cool looking but maybe it's performance is not as great), although the owner remember it's a Scythe (further grueling research, pointed to the Scythe Big Shuriken from before more than 7 years ago) but upon further research the fan is from Thermolab. It may be "Frankestein" HSF: a Scythe Big Shuriken low profile heatsink with Thermolab round fan or a Thermolab Micro Silencer.

I wonder which cooler can cool a 105w CPU to about 25% overclock under load yet still be below 80C or 80C continuously for 16 hours or more (from budget to next to the best or Tier 2)?
 
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