So I just upgraded to a core i5-2500k and was shocked at the stock cooler that came with it. Have you guys seen this thing? It's less than an inch thick. I wouldn't trust it to cool a Celeron. I can't believe Intel packaged this with an unlocked core i5. Even after lapping it (horrible contact out of the box) and putting on some decent thermal compound, at stock speeds it was like 70C under full load. I've used a lot of stock coolers from a lot of different CPU's, but never seen anything as sad as this.
Replaced it with a H50 and now i'm at about 42C under full load at stock speeds.
Replaced it with a H50 and now i'm at about 42C under full load at stock speeds.