Can I reuse my old heatsink?

ricid

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I'm contemplating upgrading from my aged 2600k to one of the new fangled 9900K CPUs depending on just how ridiculous the pricing ends ip.
Am I right in thinking that despite intel changing sockets every 14 seconds, they still have the same heat sink mounting points?
I've got a giant old thermalright thing, and given a big block of aluminium is still a big block of aluminium, was thinking I might save a few pennies.
 
The 2600k was a fantastic CPU, I still have one in a pc that I gave to my children. It was overclocked at 4.8ghz and is still running solid 5 years on. I moved to a 5960x when I built my new rig because it was a pre-binned cpu from 8pack and runs at 4.7ghz. The 2600k is still more than capable of running anything you throw at it really, if you are upgrading your system, you might as well move to a ddr4 setup and get a cpu with 8 or more cores. I do not regret changing one bit.
 
Yeah, it's certainly lasted me a lot longer than expected.

My general rule since about 1998 has been to upgrade when I can get around twice the performance, it's just that's taken a lot longer than usual. No more Moore's law & all that.

I'm specifically looking at the soon-to-be 8/16 intel as it mostly gets used for audio production, which is one of the areas where intel still pretty much wipe the floor with amd (at medium latencies anyway - there's a site that I can't talk about with a good set of dawbench results).

Was holding out for 10nm & the new 512bit SIMD instructions that were supposed to be in icelake, but given that's been a year away for the last 3 years I've sort of given up hope, and the 10/12 core skylake beasties are too pricey for me.

While 7nm Ryzen 2 could potentially catch up for audio work, barring any huge surprises my guess is that it'll end up roughly equivalent. As it may well be ahead elsewhere, it probably won't be charitably priced either. No thunderbolt in an audio PC is a bit of a drag these days as well..

But anyway. Heatsink. Will it fit or will I have to retire it to the shelf of shame?
 
ricid said:
I'm contemplating upgrading from my aged 2600k to one of the new fangled 9900K CPUs depending on just how ridiculous the pricing ends ip.
Am I right in thinking that despite intel changing sockets every 14 seconds, they still have the same heat sink mounting points?
I've got a giant old thermalright thing, and given a big block of aluminium is still a big block of aluminium, was thinking I might save a few pennies.
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All LGA1150, 1151, 1155 & 1156 CPUs use the same 75mm mounting hole spacing. LGA201l has 80mm mounting hole spacing.
 
the only other option is to go threadripper and with the price of the 9900k you could go 1920 cheaper or 1950 same ish price but way better on every account ..
then the motherboard is cheaper mem same price will prob last the next 5-8 yrs
 
Ooh thanks, I didn't know about the pressure thing. A bit of googling seems to suggest thermalright said their products were fine when that story broke, but will definitely be tightening things carefully..
 
EsaT said:
Besides same mounting hole spacing there's still that mounting pressure thing.
In Skylake Intel changed to thinner CPU substrate and some highest pressure mounting systems cause risk of CPU bending.
https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-skylake-cpus-are-bending-under-the-pressure-of-some-coolers/

Not sure what kind force Thermalright's mounting uses.
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Sorry for the delay.
The Skylake thinner PCB (substrate) mounting pressure is not an issue. Yeah, there was a lot of hype about nothing, but in the end it was all smoke and mirrors to get publicity. The only time it become even remotely problematic is with large coolers mounted and then shipped fully assembled systems, or if system was to be pushed off of a table or desk, put in box running and tossed in the air into 9' ceiling before falling to the floor. But when you do this there is a lot of damage to much more than just the flexing of CPU PCB. A German review site did a video of 1151 with biggish cooler on it dropping and throwing it around while running and there was damage, but any system would have been severely damaged with similar treatment. Sorry, I can't remember who so can't post link to the video.
 
doyll said:
Sorry for the delay.
The Skylake thinner PCB (substrate) mounting pressure is not an issue. Yeah, there was a lot of hype about nothing, but in the end it was all smoke and mirrors to get publicity. The only time it become even remotely problematic is with large coolers mounted and then shipped fully assembled systems, or if system was to be pushed off of a table or desk, put in box running and tossed in the air into 9' ceiling before falling to the floor. But when you do this there is a lot of damage to much more than just the flexing of CPU PCB. A German review site did a video of 1151 with biggish cooler on it dropping and throwing it around while running and there was damage, but any system would have been severely damaged with similar treatment. Sorry, I can't remember who so can't post link to the video.
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There was that thread in the CPU section a few weeks back where someone claimed that their new CPU was damaged in a similar way to the images in that article. I think they were also using a H100 which can be quite easy to over tighten as well.
 
Fire_fly said:
There was that thread in the CPU section a few weeks back where someone claimed that their new CPU was damaged in a similar way to the images in that article. I think they were also using a H100 which can be quite easy to over tighten as well.
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While that may be a truthful it could just as easily not ne. Some people have posted in forums with claims big heavy coolers bend motherboards, but I have never seen a motherboard that was in fact bent / damaged because of a heavy cooler that had not had other abuse causing it.

Some Scythe mounts can also be over tightened and possible damage CPU and/or socket too. But if users has even a little common sense about how to tighten things it's not a problem.

Any CPU can be damaged by too much pressure / force be it by improper mounting or by improper handling applying too much pressure. Be they older thicker PCB or newer thinner PCB.

My original statement is correct.
LGA1150, 1151, 1155 & 1156 mounts are all interchangeable. Also, all LGA2011 series are interchangeable.
The hype about Skylake LGA1151 PCB being weak because it is thinner is not truthful. While it may not be quite as strong as older thicker PCBs it is still much stronger than CPU PCB specification standards calls for.

Edit: I found the PCGH 'High-end coolers a problem for Skylake CPU?' video. The abuse starts at about 3:20 and gets progressively worse. When the monitor goes black after it was the monitor lead coming loose, not damage. True, the socket was damaged when they took system apart but so were lots of other components.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XByL6tRPSBM&t=2s
 
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