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Im looking to buy a good CPU aftermarket air cooler. ive been looking at a dark knight but ive read some reviews which arnt brilliant. ive got 50 quid max to spend on this. anymore and id rather just get water cooling. 40 quid ideally. and also what is the most accurate software there is to monitor temps for my amd cpu. ive got 3 different monitoring right now and all give me different temps lool. one 29 degrees another 50 degrees and another which is just random everytime i load it up. thasnk for any hgelp...
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I'd suggest that you try and get a TRUE. It's a great heat sink. It's slightly over your budget but it's totally worth it.
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Also, a good monitor for CPU temperatures would be RealTemp.
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This reminds me of the time I persuaded my little cousin to give me his 50 dollar bill in exchange for 2 5 dollar bills, by explaining to him that 2 bills > 1 bill.

System: Gaming - Intel & ATI
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Q9650 OC'd 4.3		 Motherboard
Gigabyte EP45-UD3P		 Memory
8GB - OCZ OC'd 1066 		Graphics Card
2x 4870 X2
Hard Drive
2x 300GB VelociRaptor 3x 640GB AAKS		 Sound Card
X-Fi Titanium		 Power Supply
Corsair 1000W		 Case
Lian Li PC-P80
CPU cooling
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N/A		 OS
Vista Ultimate x64, Windows 7 RC1, XP Pro x64		 Monitor
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ok thasnk ill look into the true. ive been also lookin at a megahalem. any of you use that?
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ok thasnk ill look into the true. ive been also lookin at a megahalem. any of you use that?
Quite a few people here on OCN use this cooler, and it seems to give off some half decent temps
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check out ebuyer as well. they may have some good stuff in your price range, i'm not sure as i've not looked.

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