I've been running my 5600 on the stock cooler for ages as I was planning on watercooling but never got around to it.
I've now decided to give up on water and as the fan on my stock cooler was starting to make an annoying noise I decided to buy a new cooler.
Went for the NH-D15 as it will fill up some space in my unnecessarily large 011DXL case that I bought for watercooling. I also wont need to buy another cooler for this socket and will eventually upgrade to a CPU with more cores at some point. The black version has one less fan but I don't really need two fans with the 3600 and I can always add another if I need it in the future.
Performance is pretty impressive compared to the stock cooler, although my cinebench results were a little random. I ran cinebench 4 times on the stock cooler and another 4 times with the NH-D15S.
Scores with the stock cooler were 8378, 8324,8694 and 8719 with a max CPU temp of 85 degrees on the last run as the case temp increased a little and the heatsink warmed up.
I'm not sure why I got a higher score on the last run with the highest temperatures, clock speed varied but mostly stabilised at around 3873mhz.
With the NH-D15 scores were 8941,8963,8955 and 8947 with a max CPU temp of 64 degrees.
So substantially better temperatures with a 20 degree drop.
Scores are better but nothing dramatic.
Clock speed was higher with it mostly maintaining around 4ghz
So probably not a great value for money upgrade, but my PC is now quieter and my case looks slightly less like an empty box.
I've now decided to give up on water and as the fan on my stock cooler was starting to make an annoying noise I decided to buy a new cooler.
Went for the NH-D15 as it will fill up some space in my unnecessarily large 011DXL case that I bought for watercooling. I also wont need to buy another cooler for this socket and will eventually upgrade to a CPU with more cores at some point. The black version has one less fan but I don't really need two fans with the 3600 and I can always add another if I need it in the future.
Performance is pretty impressive compared to the stock cooler, although my cinebench results were a little random. I ran cinebench 4 times on the stock cooler and another 4 times with the NH-D15S.
Scores with the stock cooler were 8378, 8324,8694 and 8719 with a max CPU temp of 85 degrees on the last run as the case temp increased a little and the heatsink warmed up.
I'm not sure why I got a higher score on the last run with the highest temperatures, clock speed varied but mostly stabilised at around 3873mhz.
With the NH-D15 scores were 8941,8963,8955 and 8947 with a max CPU temp of 64 degrees.
So substantially better temperatures with a 20 degree drop.
Scores are better but nothing dramatic.
Clock speed was higher with it mostly maintaining around 4ghz
So probably not a great value for money upgrade, but my PC is now quieter and my case looks slightly less like an empty box.