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With ddr3 1866 being booted and currently 2133 mhz affordable modules being available the future gets more interesting.

just got a Thermalright ifx-14 (unneeded) cpu cooler for $48 for my phenom II (Coolermaster hyper tx-3 dual push- pull config fans). With Global Foundries yield issue delaying llano and bulldozer AMD gets ready for setbacks.

My hyper tx 3 does a beautiful job and i decided to get a silver arrow but the cost was too much and the guys i bought from had a sale on and i saw the ifx-14 -- an early design-board coarse prototype of the silver arrow. This thing is definitely not fan friendly and it took me almost 2 days to attach 2 push-pull fans without rattling on the the fins. This thing is horrible and unfriendly but it does more than its job to which i conclude the newer unreleased chips from intel and AMD should hit the 5.1 ghz stable mark on this air cooler. You could probably use any 120mm or 140mm fan enabled heatsinks. Cooler master undeniably makes the highest quality easy to use blister and sore free (for your fingers) cheap coolers from the lot along with their newly launched hyper 212+ evo for AM3+. Thermalright got its act together along with many other brands like corsair, thermaltake, scythe, cogage etc. Dual push-pull fan configurations benefit the most.

Without doubt overclocking to 6ghz with intel i7 2700k or the anticipated 3000 series and the unlocked AMD fX-8150 on air shouldnt be a problem with current new age designs-- a silver arrow with 3 fans should and with the right overclocking skill set allow you to run 5.6--5.8 ghz 24/7 as if it were stock speed.

keeping our fingers crossed time will tell whats waiting in store.

Wow, that is one big cooler...
Would love to see a pic of your rig, if everything follows the pattern, the new CPU's will run cooler at stock.
But in windows, who runs stock.
So far there really has been no leaks to the performance of the new CPU's, at least any that are substantiated.
We should see something soon though and on come the testing, it will be interesting on seeing what others will run to get the optimum performance of there rigs. BTW..nice and interesting post.

System specs:
phenom II 955 @ 4.02 ghz
Thermal right ifx-14 cpu cooler push pull config-- using 2 simple cooler master 1200 rpm fans
gigabyte 880g- usb3 AM3 socket motherboard (rev 1.0)
8 gb ripjaws X @ 1600
500gb samsung 16mb
500gb wd 32 mb
integrated radeon 4250 oc'ed from 560 to 966 Mhz clock with 22" samsung HDMI tv(using hdmi port). Sound comes from the integrated speakers.
hp dvd 1260
reused an ancient 10 year old athlon cabinet

OS:
ultimate edition 2.9 64
windowz 7
debian 6

I apologize for the horrible pic quality -- using a samsung phone c3322 2mp camera.
The cables are shoddily arranged -will tie them up
will buy the nzxt beta evo next year.

The nzxt beta evo is a very nice case.. like the design which allows two fans to be mounted on top of the case.
Myself I opted for the CM Scout for a build...the price was right.
But this is getting away fro the original post or thread lol...
Myself for a CPU cooler was looking at the Antec H20 920 or the XIGMATEK Dark Knight..
Since you are into Over Clocking, you are very aware of heat issues that come into play with that.
Hopefully in a few days will see some specks released on the Bulldozer line and then the fun begins....
With a new case little cable management. one awesome rig you have, not that is not already.

i don'tknow about that cooler but love my Cooler Master v8 with my 17 2600K run at 4.8 all days but usually run at 4.5 AND CAN DO 5.1 raising the voltage a bit, it's stays at 34c most of the time had a H50 but some how was bad or some thing was wrong my temp was 60-70c some how was not sitting right was tight do because that's all I could tight too so figure did not sit right but my Cooler MASTER WOW MY TEMP NOW AT 4.5 IS 30C so perfect so far and patiently waiting for ULTIMATE EDITION 3.0 TO GO WITH THIS i7 2600K got this Intel was tired of waiting for Amd to come with some thing discent had a Amd Phenom11 x4 920 overclock to 3.2 beforeso now is WOW4.8 ALL DAYS LONG

I7 2600k at 4.5 30c
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 12GB
2 Maxtor 500g and now a ssd Samsung 830 128gig for just Ultimate edition 3.4
1 Seagate agent go flex 500
Windows 7


Amd 6000 -3.0
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB
1 maxtor 500g
1maxtor 160-1 Maxtor ONe Touch mini 160g
Window 8 developper
linux mint 11
pct Destined Edition with kernell 3.0.0-12= gnome 3.2.0