Has anyone tried passively cooling any of the more recent Pentium/i3's? This is for an HTPC. I'll have a 200mm fan pulling fresh air in and I was wondering if I could get away with sticking something like a CM Hyper TX3 EVO, without the fan, on a Pentium 4560.
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Passive cooling
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I'll do a worst case scenario test and run realbench on it, just to be sure. Now I just need to find the right heatsink! Ideally I want to spend around £20 on the heatsink. I was going to get the Arctic Freezer 7 Pro, however there's the Antec A40 which has 1 extra heatpipe. Although I'm not sure how much difference that makes on roughly the same fin surface area.
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It'll be in a small cabinet with a small hole at the back, with only a 200mm fan pulling at the front, I may well need to undervolt the CPU. Time will tell, I'll post an update here when all the stuff arrives this week, for future reference.