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Decent price for this heatsink. I have one and it's pretty solid. You can overclock a little and still have solid temps. The only problem is the thermal compound it comes with is a pain in the ass to apply. Arctic Silver 5 would be much better.

I agree, I would only use Artic Silver it not only makes it easier but I noticed -2C by lapping the heat sink and changing to Arctic Silver.

Funny, I was just searching the web for this particular HSF because I saw one in the classifieds section of a discussion board for $25 (used) and I wanted to figure out if that was a good price or not... I guess not! LOL

Considering a cheap heatsink/fan starts around $10 or $15 - pretty good price. How about the noise, for Newegg only mentions "Extremely Quiet"?

The manufacturer rates its noise level at "0.8 Sone", whatever that means.

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/cpu2.php?idx=80&data=2&disc=

Here's an acoustic primer that explains Sones, maybe you can understrand it (I can't LOL):
http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/studentdownloads/DEA350notes/Acoustics/Acoustics1.html

I've been running this on my X2 3800 (overclocked 20% from 2.0 to 2.4GHz) since January or so. It's been solid and very quiet. The fan is suspended on rubber things so there is no direct contact with the frame for noise/vibration transmission.

When I installed one of these the noise level in my home office dropped very noticably, compared to the stock fan. I use the auto fan speed control on my MB, and can only hear the fan when the CPU pegs and then I only hear whooshing. Very effective and very quiet product.

I have this and like it...very quiet

These products are great from Arctic. Very quite and last for years. Cant go wrong here.

I am looking forward a deal for Freezer 7 Pro, for my Penty-D 775 sockets.

I purchased one, it's in the mail alrerady.

shipping kills this 'deal'

I have been looking for a good cooler. I think I am going to get one of these

#13 Shipping kills a lot of Egg deals.

This Scythe Ninja is an awesome cooler, but a pain to install. It barly fit in my Antec case, and God forbid I'd ever need to get to the IDE plugs again.

Cooling my Opteron 165 running at 2600MHz, it idles in the low 30s (Celcius).

Uhm, this isn't the scythe ninja thread, but ok. My Opteron 165 is running at 2.6Ghz and idles in low 30's, too... except I didnt have to spend $45+ for the HSF, it came with my Opteron (stock AMD)... heatpipe heaven.