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Everyone owning a Sugo Silverstone SG01 knows about the problem to find a good cpu cooler for this case. A cpu cooler for this case cannot be higher than about 82 mm, because the power supply is placed directly over the cpu.
Since I purchased a core 2 quad recently I was not too happy with the cooling performance of my old cooler the NT-06 from Silverstone. In Prime95 I got easily around 80 C° degrees here so I looked for something different.
There is the NT-06 Evolution from Silverstone, which is similar to the old NT-06 Nitrogen, but has 5 heat pipes instead of 3. After purchasing one I discovered, that this cooler has very bad build quality, even the base plate appeared to be more convex than even, a very disappointing experience. A replacement cooler had the same problems, so I finally gave up on these coolers.
So I decided to mod one of the best cpu coolers available: The Noctua NH-C12P modded to fit into the Sugo Silverstone.
This cooler has a very impressive build quality:
After the grinding work:
The original Corsair fan was replaced by the Noctua fan, which is very quiet and spins up to 1300 rpm and was connected to the cpu fan header of the mainboard:
Everything in place, fresh air coming through the holes of the acryl window to the cooler, with the fins being positioned ideally, parallel to the incoming air:
The very satisfying result, temperatures dropped about 15-20 °C:
You will however lose the Corsair warranty, if you replace the original fan of the power supply. But IMO the PS will not take any damage, the hotter air coming from the cpu is compensated by the increased airflow.
Since I purchased a core 2 quad recently I was not too happy with the cooling performance of my old cooler the NT-06 from Silverstone. In Prime95 I got easily around 80 C° degrees here so I looked for something different.
There is the NT-06 Evolution from Silverstone, which is similar to the old NT-06 Nitrogen, but has 5 heat pipes instead of 3. After purchasing one I discovered, that this cooler has very bad build quality, even the base plate appeared to be more convex than even, a very disappointing experience. A replacement cooler had the same problems, so I finally gave up on these coolers.
So I decided to mod one of the best cpu coolers available: The Noctua NH-C12P modded to fit into the Sugo Silverstone.
This cooler has a very impressive build quality:
After the grinding work:
The original Corsair fan was replaced by the Noctua fan, which is very quiet and spins up to 1300 rpm and was connected to the cpu fan header of the mainboard:
Everything in place, fresh air coming through the holes of the acryl window to the cooler, with the fins being positioned ideally, parallel to the incoming air:
The very satisfying result, temperatures dropped about 15-20 °C:
You will however lose the Corsair warranty, if you replace the original fan of the power supply. But IMO the PS will not take any damage, the hotter air coming from the cpu is compensated by the increased airflow.
