What's wrong with the stock Intel fan?

Emphacy · 10 Feb 2011 at 13:20

Okay, so I've always used the stock Intel fan, on all of my processors, particularly Socket 775 ones.

To me they are excellent at cooling, assuming you get one of the high quality heatsinks, I've had 2 processors come with the crap ones, and a few with the copper based and larger Intel heatsinks (The good ones).

They all seem to do a great Job to me, I've got my E6300 at the moment overclocked to 3.4GHz and on idle it's around 28 degrees celcius, under load it's around 40 degrees celcius.

I'm going to be installing my Q6600 as soon as I get some TIP, and look at some possible CPU coolers, although i'm contemplating sticking with the stock heatsink.

Really, what is wrong with the stock heatsink? It seems to do a great job at cooling to me, even my mates Q9550 is Overclocked on the stock heatsink and it never goes over 45/50 degrees celcius.

Emphacy · 10 Feb 2011 at 13:40

ViRuS2k said:
Q9550 is Overclocked on the stock heatsink and it never goes over 45/50 degrees celcius.

LMAO

I don't mind you having a little laugh about it, but it is in fact correct. I wouldn't lie about such a temperature, it would be stupid.
This is a general serious question, otherwise I wouldn't have asked in the first place.

These temperatures I have seen is the exact reason i'm asking, do take that into account.

Emphacy · 10 Feb 2011 at 13:51

okay, I use EVEREST Ultimate, and it reads my CPU Temp as 28 degrees, coreTemp reads it as 32 degrees, which I guess is correct.
I just got my friend to coreTemp his Q9550, just then via facebook, as he also uses Everest, his says 52 degrees, idle.

In any case, this is still not that high, for it being overclocked to 3.4GHz using the stock cooler, I've seen reviews of people getting this with aftermarket coolers. If no one is going to answer my question seriously, other than 'stock heatsinks suck' then you're really not helping. The readings we get prove otherwise.

Emphacy · 10 Feb 2011 at 15:08

Okay here's my results from CoreTemp and Intel Burn Test, I already had Intel Burn Test so I used that...

My room temp, according to my alarm clock is 22 celcius. I'd get my friend to do his results too if he hadn't gone to work. It did go up by around 20 degrees, but by the looks of the temps I'm getting, not sure if it'll be worth buying a new cooler for my Q6600 when the stock heatsink doesn't seem too bad.

EDIT: The little sidebar thing, with multicolour text is EVEREST.