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Is the stock heatsink good enough i7 3770k

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2012/10/05 13:05:29 (permalink)
I'm going to get a new CPU and i don't plan on over clocking and i want to know if the stock heatsink is good enough for the intel core i7 3770k
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    willem445
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    Re: Is the stock heatsink good enough i7 3770k 2012/10/05 13:41:41 (permalink)
    Well its good enough as long as you aren't doing any extensive gaming or benchmarks. Can't you spare $30 for the way better cooling of the cooler master hyper 212+?
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    Re: Is the stock heatsink good enough i7 3770k 2012/10/06 21:41:29 (permalink)
    Do you think the i7 2700k stock heatsink with no overclocking would be better for gaming? and whats the worst that can happen if i use the stock heatsink for gaming on the i7 3770k?
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    Re: Is the stock heatsink good enough i7 3770k 2012/10/07 02:10:49 (permalink)
    The stock CPU heatsink for the 2700K is pretty good. I mean all stock CPU coolers suck but you get what I am saying. Before I bought me my Thermaltake Frio Heatsink for my 2600k I used the Intel stock CPU cooler. I even overclocked my 2600K with the stock CPU cooler to 4.2ghz. My ideal temps where about 40-43C. Of course when I ran prime95 my temps reached 88c because the CPU was on full load. I also did have efficient air cooling in my case as well.


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    Re: Is the stock heatsink good enough i7 3770k 2012/10/10 14:20:50 (permalink)
    The stock heatsink on the 3770 is the same as the K.   Works fine for gaming. 
     
    My issue is that it's loud, and ramps up, then down, then up, then down.  It's an annoyance to listen to.

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    Re: Is the stock heatsink good enough i7 3770k 2012/10/10 17:53:07 (permalink)
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    Not sure what motherboard you have, but most modern boards you can control some or all of your fans in bios settings. Might be able to solve some of the noise issues and still maintain temps.
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    Re: Is the stock heatsink good enough i7 3770k 2012/10/13 03:10:09 (permalink)
    its the total package case, heatsink and ambient temps. i use the evga super clocked cpu cooler. it is for me the best i have used besides a corsair hydro cooler mixed with my case the haf 932. just get beyond the size and weight i get great air flow. i can do a moderate overclock if i want but i dont keep it overclocked. right now my cpu its at 28 c sometimes in the summer it goes up tp 40c. if i was you look into eighther coolermaster, corsair, but for me its the evga superclocked cpu cooler.

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    Re: Is the stock heatsink good enough i7 3770k 2012/10/14 23:31:06 (permalink)
    212+ gives unbeatble performance as others mentioned and its cheap
     
    the stock heatsink will do fine as long as you have fans moving air inside of ur case
     
     
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    Re: Is the stock heatsink good enough i7 3770k 2012/10/25 14:01:31 (permalink)
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    Not sure what motherboard you have, but most modern boards you can control some or all of your fans in bios settings. Might be able to solve some of the noise issues and still maintain temps.

     
    Yeah, it's the ASUS Sabertooth Z77 sitting in an Antec Three Hundred case.  It's a good board, and I'm sure I can adjust fan profiles - I have the board set to the Performance preset, and I left it be.  The real issue is that the stock cooler is an 80mm (90mm?) fan with a high angle of attack on the fins, and relative to any 120mm solution, it's gonna make more noise. 
     
    It's about 1/2 as loud as my Xbox 360, which is to say "it's audible at 5 feet".  I should take $30 and get a new hs/fan to quiet things down.
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    Re: Is the stock heatsink good enough i7 3770k 2012/10/25 16:14:00 (permalink)
    At stock speeds yes, that is all OEMs use since they don't allow overclocking anyway.  
     
    Intel makes only a few cooler type, determined by TDP category, such that any CPU given that label will work with that type of cooler.  Just so you know all processors stock heat load is always less than the TDP category it is shoved in, thus guaranteeing it doesn't exceed that value.  Since the cooler is designed for that guarantee, essentially stock is better than just for stock speeds.
     
    larsoncc 
    My issue is that it's loud, and ramps up, then down, then up, then down.  It's an annoyance to listen to. 
    That isn't due to any particular heatsink, that is the type of fan used.  Fans controlled with PWM vary RPM by CPU utilization, thus processor workload going up and down leads to the RPM changing that way, thus noise.  For Intel, these are on their stock coolers.  But you could just get a better fan if you could change it, there are constant RPM fans and there are manual controllers where you decide RPM.

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    Re: Is the stock heatsink good enough i7 3770k 2012/10/29 09:31:30 (permalink)
    Its decent for being a stock fan but spend $20 or so and get something much better.
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