Hi,
I have been using the cooler supplied with the 4400+ since August. Now I like my computer silent so it and the two Vantec Stealth case fans were at 7V. The CPU temperature with both cores folding was 72C! Not good at all of course and I wanted to invest in a decent cooler but my money went towards other components since then as it was stable.
Having now replaced it I can see that the copper is very poor quality judging from its light weight nature and lack of mirror finish on the bottom of this stock cooler. The thermal paste had solidified and turned crusty around the edge of the core!
I bought the Zalman CNPS9500 about two weeks ago and must say I'm very impressed. Load temperature is now 48C with the case temperature at 42C (all fans at 7V still). Well worth the money. I was also looking at the SI-120 and Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro but I didn't want to run into compatiblity issues due to the tall heatspreaders on my memory.
Time to start overclocking.
I have been using the cooler supplied with the 4400+ since August. Now I like my computer silent so it and the two Vantec Stealth case fans were at 7V. The CPU temperature with both cores folding was 72C! Not good at all of course and I wanted to invest in a decent cooler but my money went towards other components since then as it was stable.
Having now replaced it I can see that the copper is very poor quality judging from its light weight nature and lack of mirror finish on the bottom of this stock cooler. The thermal paste had solidified and turned crusty around the edge of the core!
I bought the Zalman CNPS9500 about two weeks ago and must say I'm very impressed. Load temperature is now 48C with the case temperature at 42C (all fans at 7V still). Well worth the money. I was also looking at the SI-120 and Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro but I didn't want to run into compatiblity issues due to the tall heatspreaders on my memory.
Time to start overclocking.