Looking for a stock intel cooler for 775 core2quad

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Does anyone know where I can find one? Looked on auction site but only found a used one. I know the whole competitor links thing may make this difficult, if they're available, but I don't really know where to look. Any ideas?
 
Any reason why you need a stock one? Wouldn't pretty much and cooler (including this one) be cooler and quieter.

As Blue160 mentions, I reckon a post in the MM "Wanted" sub-section will garner a few responses. Are you needing the full size one (that came with 65nm quads) or the low profile one that cam with 45nm quads?
 
The back plate from the stock cooler is glued to the back of a motherboard that I don't fancy removing so want to be sure it will just screw straight in to the existing plate. It's an old hand-me-down that I've given to my father-in-law so i don't need anything better.
 
What back plate? The stock coolers use pushpins

Are you meaning a flat metal plate attached to the board around the socket area on the underside?
 
Yes, sorry if my terminology is off. That's what I mean.

Btw, it was on a q8300 and had sprung screws rather than push pins.
 
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Yea, I'm pretty sure that is part of the motherboard, to prevent damage to the PCB when using heavy CPU coolers. If you know the make and model number of the motherboard I can show you a picture of the underside of the board when brand-new.

So just use whatever CPU cooler you like (personally I would go for the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro - though the cooler master I mentioned above is not bad either).
 
Hi, thanks for your help. Identifying the motherboard was a previous saga. It's the remains of an oem packard bell pc, branded acer g43t-am, but I think it's an ecs board. It's had an AF7 on it and this is what I'm looking to replace. The AF7 didn't fit well though and for 775 it expected to be able to push fastenings through the holes in the motherboard, but these are blocked by 'poles' from the plate underneath that the old hs screwed into. I had to fit it wil the original screws but it doesn't really hold it well. Hoping a stock cooler with screws will just screw straight into the top of the poles.

I hope that makes some sort of sense.
 
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Ah, if its a custom acer board then it may have used an Acer custom heatsink (i know dell often does this with their desktop PCs). Is it this board by any chance? If the AF7 pushins won't work then I wouldn't imagine Intel stock heatsinks would work either as they use a similar push pin design.

Would a cooler using a bolt through kit work and is you case big enough to install a cooler with a 120mm fan on it?
 
That board looks remarkably similar.

Thanks fir the info about the stock pushpins, I assume it's a custom hs then. They do like to make things awkward.

The case is a coolermaster 330 so I would think 120mm was pushing it. Could you explain what a bolt through kit is? I don't think i can free up the holes in the motherboard without breaking it.
 
Looking at this post (about modding the HDD drive bays), the 330 case even supports the massive Thermalright Ultra Extreme 120 cooler (TRUE), so pretty much any tower cooler will work with this case.

A bolt through kit is just a way of mounting a CPU cooler where you don't use pushpins, but instead a backplate rests on the metal plate on the underside of the motherboard and the cooler is securely attached using bolts that go through the motherboard and are secured in the cooler's matched backplate. So long as the CPU cooler mounting holes allow a bolt to go all the way through then this should work fine.

The cheapest cooler with a bolt through kit included is the Geild Tranquillo for £26. Here is a review. The corsair A50 is also worth a look.
 
andi's listed 2 great value coolers but if you want to spend the bare minimum the Cooler Master Hyper 212 also uses a bolt through kit and has excellent cooling capabilities for under £20.

I personally prefer the Gelid as it's slightly easier to fit but if funds are limited then the Cooler Master Hyper is great value.
 
I think I've failed to explain the situation with the current motherboard clearly enough. The holes in the mobo are blocked by posts which pertrude through the board and are attached to the plate which is glued to the back of the board. I don't think this can br removed.
 
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I think I've failed to explain the situation with the current motherboard clearly enough. The holes in the mobo are blocked by posts which pertrude through the board and are attached to the plate which is glued to the back of the board. I don't think this can br removed.
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the bolt through kit has this backplate, you just screw the new cooler and bolts to your existing backplate - no need to remove mobo/backplate :)
 
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