I3 6100 cooling for a htpc, stock fan or corsair h55?

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Hi guys what do you suggest for cpu cooling from the above choices?

It's mainly for media but will have a game every now and then.

The case is a Corsair 250d.

Cheers. :)
 
A good cooler can easily be a long term investment. I'm still using coolers I got 7-8 years ago that are on 2nd and 3rd builds.
 
Late to the party but thought I'd share my experience of the i3-6100 at stock clocks with the stock cooler as I've just popped one in a Silverstone Raven RVZ02 HTPC case.

The case is on the desk just behind the monitor, so quite close to your ears and easy to hear any sounds coming from it. The stock cooler isn't bad at all from a noise point of view considering its so close to you. On idle its not audible but you can hear it 'rev' up from 1000-1300rpm once the CPU starts having spikes in load. This is with the silent profile in the Asus bios. Under gaming load I'm seeing low to mid 70s and the noise is audible but still rather quiet. The case doesn't have any fans do just relying on the vents on the side for intake, then rear and bottom for exhausting the air blown off the cooler.

I'm going to try setting up a custom fan profile to stop the 'revving' and see how I get on from there, but overall the noise level is low :)
 
Daaaveee said:
Late to the party but thought I'd share my experience of the i3-6100 at stock clocks with the stock cooler as I've just popped one in a Silverstone Raven RVZ02 HTPC case.

The case is on the desk just behind the monitor, so quite close to your ears and easy to hear any sounds coming from it. The stock cooler isn't bad at all from a noise point of view considering its so close to you. On idle its not audible but you can hear it 'rev' up from 1000-1300rpm once the CPU starts having spikes in load. This is with the silent profile in the Asus bios. Under gaming load I'm seeing low to mid 70s and the noise is audible but still rather quiet. The case doesn't have any fans do just relying on the vents on the side for intake, then rear and bottom for exhausting the air blown off the cooler.

I'm going to try setting up a custom fan profile to stop the 'revving' and see how I get on from there, but overall the noise level is low :)
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Not bad, thanks for that. So mine should be even quieter then :) Hope to get it built this week, just waiting on the motherboard.
 
Bone9 said:
Not bad, thanks for that. So mine should be even quieter then :) Hope to get it built this week, just waiting on the motherboard.
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Yes you will have much better case airflow and a better cooler on the cpu itself :) the i3-6100 doesn't produce much heat so you should be nice and quiet.
 
MOOGLEYS said:
It's a bitfenix Colossus. It's my media PC so nothing fancy inside other than a load of drives. It has a 750ti gpu...
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My build so far is
Cooler master 130 case
H110I Plus D3 Intel H110
8gig DDR3
3 Hard Drives
1 ssd

I3 6100 i will pick up while on holiday as i can get it much cheaper than in the uk

What you think to the performance of the i3 6100
 
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