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Stock heatink is rubbish

Renegade87

Renegade87

Renegade87

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The stock heatink on the wolfdales are about an inch thick and idle i have comp temps of 40oC!!!

That both with the pre applied paste and then some mx-1 i had which is now at 38oc. The ambient temp is cool very cool.

Could anyone recommend a good heatink where I dont have to oput a back plate on (its a pain in the ass)
 
Yeah it's a decent little cooler, the Coolermaster Hyper TX is just as good though for around £8.
What are your load temps? Because idle means nothing really, if they're <65c I wouldn't worry unless you will be overclocking.

And if you think they're small check out the e4xx series Celeron coolers :p

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hmm looks nice but i dont have £40 lol ive orderd the frezer 7, i had a freezer 64 for my old comp and it proformed well.

I suppose i just forgot how bad stock heatsinks really are.
 
Stock heatsinks for the Wolfdales are garbage.
I couldn't believe the carpness of it when i opened the box.

Freezer 7 works OK.
Tuniq also works well obviously, but requires the MB out of the case to fit the backplate.

If Overclocking
You won't see low temps on a Wolf with any heatsink, but the better quality ones will allow stable operation above 4Ghz.
 
thanks for the recommendations.

I ended up with the freezer 7 due to the ease of use and the fact i have used the freezer range before and all I can say is wow.

E8400 at stock using orthos is at comfy 42Degrees C thats a good 26 degrees cooler than the stock heatsink.

Seems intel are suing the same heastink on the wolfdales as the e4xx cpu's
 
badbob said:
AMD 4400x2 heatpipe cooler was great, basically identical to the Zalman 8000 which is £30.
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all stock heatsinks are perfectly fine, as long as you don't overclock, processors aren't sold to be overclocked and intel/AMD don't make there cooling for that, don't forget that :p
 
Its LGA775 so I believe they do. I think the TR Ultra extreme 120 is considered top dog at the moment. Sadly I don't think one will fit in my case, so I'm going to go for the TR 90 alternative.
 
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