thanks for the input people. sorry to let you all down but i don't own a megahalems, i can't afford one right now, and as i feared - it seems the fins are stuck together at the outer edges. what an awesome day job it would be though, to spend 40+ hours a week designing and testing new heatsinks. i s...

tim851 - yeah you got the idea first up, except imagine it like this (which is exaggerated):

my predictions are that this mod would increase passive cooling ability, but would also probably alter the airflow from a fan in a detrimental way..

here's a diagram so there's no confusion..

your idea is stupid. are you autistic or something? just a friendly bit of advice.. if you keep speaking to people like that, you'll eventually get punched in the face. anyway, i was interested to see if anyone knew of any simple heatsink mods that could be done. the idea of increasing the space be...

i'm in the same position as the OP and i've narrowed my choices down to the P183 and this, the bitfenix survivor. (although i'm now adding the corsair 650D to my list haha) here's a pic: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/wp-content/uploads/bitfenix-survivor-1.jpg as far as i can tell, the bitfenix surv...

anyone?

hey everyone. it's great to see a whole community of others who take silent computing as seriously as i do! anyway, while researching cpu coolers for my next silent build, i realized it would be beneficial to have the heatsink fins further apart from each other, especially at low fan speeds. I was t...