Two Cooling Questions

Khrest · 8 Dec 2011 at 17:03

1) Can anybody answer whether the stock Intel cooler from the first generation i3 is the same as the one supplied with the first gen i5? In other words, can I use an i3 stock cooler on an i5 chip?

2) Can somebody confirm whether the Corsair H50-1 will fit the 1155 socket? The box doesn't list it, presumably because it didn't exist when I bought it for my 1156 board, but I've heard reports of it fitting with a bit of modification.

varkanoid · 8 Dec 2011 at 17:58

1) yes it looked same only difference on mine was i5 had copper contact plate and i3 had alluminium/silver contact plate

2) have you checked Corsair's forum they are very informative.

Davefran · 8 Dec 2011 at 18:02

1156 and 1155 sockets have the same holes, so yes it will fit.

Khrest · 8 Dec 2011 at 22:04

Cheers guys

bainbridge · 9 Dec 2011 at 00:12

varkanoid said:
1) yes it looked same only difference on mine was i5 had copper contact plate and i3 had alluminium/silver contact plate

It maybe the whole core of the heatsink which is made of different metals, though I'm not sure.

I read somewhere that on Intel's LGA 775 CPU's the single core retails chips shipped with an aluminium core & the duo/quads shipped with a copper core.