Core 2 Duo stock cooler noise?

[yannis76]

Hi,

I will soon upgrade to Core 2 Duo and I am debating whether I should get another cooler or just stay with the stock one. I am planning to do a medium overclock if possible but I would really like to be as silent as possible. Will the stock cooler be enough?

 

[Jabbs]

I never tried the stock cooler on mine but i had previously one on a P4 and they are damned noisy, get a freezer 7 or a Zalaman.

 

[Socaddict]

Got the Zalman 9500 on mine, connected to a fanmate 2, and on minimum settings (i.e. during browsing/chatting, etc), its pretty much silent (quieter than my hard disks). Still not loud even at full speed when gaming.

 

[payingattention]

I haven't heard one myself, but I have seen pictures of the Core 2 Duo stock cooler and while it looks like an improvement over Intel's older stock coolers, it looks like the same basic design as the one for my P4 3.4 -- a copper core with radial aluminium fins -- and no doubt has the same noisy high-rpm fan mounted on it.

I wouldn't choose the stock even if I didn't overclock, not because of the cooling, but because of the noise.

Go for Zalman or Scythe, I believe those are among the best low-noise coolers

 

[UKTopGun]

If you just want silence then Artic Freezer 7 pro is very cheap and a good buy (possibly not from ocuk though).

 

[RobinGopher]

its not remotely noisy.

many times quiter than the 80mm sanyo-denki fan i had strapped to my Xp2700 with coolermaster heatpipe doofer anyway

certainly its quiet enough that i can hear the gfx card cooler spin up every few minutes

 

[payingattention]

What rpm was your 80mm fan running at though? At 12v they are quite noisy indeed.

I consider "noisy" to be anything more than barely audible... having a 120mm CPU fan running @ 800rpm gets you used to near-silence.

 

[Tumbletop]

I've been running with the stock cooler for the last couple of weeks while I waited for a new thermochill rad to come through after my little "incident" with a radiator and a slightly long self tapping screw ...

They are very quiet at normal mobo speeds, by which I mean I just plugged it into the fan header on the P5W DH and I couldn't hear it over the case fans at all.

HOWEVER - after prime for 1 hour at stock cpu speed (E6700 so 2.67Ghz), CoreTemp was showing the cores at 63 degrees C which is a little warm for my liking. Interestingly the mobo monitors seem to think its about 20 degrees less, (according to speedfan, the BIOS and probe2) but for no logical reason I think I prefer the CoreTemp prog for the truth.

After installing the water cooling kit, CoreTemp is now telling me after an hour of prime the cores are 40 and 41 degrees (at the same speed), which makes me a lot happier