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New CPU Fan for Q9550
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26. April 2010 @ 10:04 |
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The retention clip on my Thermaltake Blue Orb II just broke and I'm in the market for a new CPU fan. I'm looking for something really quiet (like the Intel fans quiet) and something not too expensive that will cool my CPU well, somewhere around 30*C idle. I don't overclock but would like to have that room with my fan if I ever plan on doing so.
Is it safe to just run with the stock cooler?
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26. April 2010 @ 12:27 |
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Idle temperatures are irrelevant, modern CPUs undervolt and underclock at idle such that they use almost no power at all. What you really need to focus on is load temperatures.
Stock coolers are perfectly fine if you don't overclock, but must be applied to a clean CPU (free of thermal paste), and the paste applied to them should only be used once.
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26. April 2010 @ 13:08 |
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So you're saying that on the stock cooler to never put thermal paste? I have another stock cooler where I put AS5. Should I remove that?
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26. April 2010 @ 13:10 |
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No, I'm saying that in order to use a stock cooler, the CPU must be clean of thermal paste, so the thermal pad applied to the stock cooler will work. Once you have used a stock cooler on a CPU, the thermal pad is rarely re-usable, so it must be cleaned and new thermal paste used if you want to use it on another CPU later.
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26. April 2010 @ 13:16 |
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I'll check again but I don't think my stock cooler had a thermal pad.
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26. April 2010 @ 13:19 |
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They're less pad-like than they used to be, but they still don't take kindly to re-use.
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26. April 2010 @ 13:21 |
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Ah, ok. Whats a danger temperature for these CPUs? The room where the computer is tends to get warm.
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26. April 2010 @ 13:24 |
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You're not in trouble until you hit 80ºC.
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26. April 2010 @ 13:29 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
You're not in trouble until you hit 80ºC.
Ok. For a nice aftermarket cooler that will overclock to 3GHz, what do you recommend?
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26. April 2010 @ 14:22 |
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You don't need an aftermarket cooler to get to 3Ghz, nor even 3.4 really. 3.5 and above is where aftermarket coolers are required. For low level overclocks, a Freezer 7 Pro would do, but really, you should be after a tower cooler like the Noctua NH-U12P or Thermalright Ultra-120.
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26. April 2010 @ 23:30 |
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27. April 2010 @ 05:21 |
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I don't see why you would use adapters like those. Why would you want to make your cooling worse?
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27. April 2010 @ 08:53 |
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How would that make my cooling worse? All pre built PCs have airducts.
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