Easy HSF for Conroes?

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Gamefreak99

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I'll be buying an E6600 or 6400 soon. I don't really plan to overclock it (or if I do, not by much) but I would like to get a slightly better heatsink than the retail one. I'll be applying AS5 but I'm not especially keen on installing a half pound monstrosity of a metal block onto my poor little motherboard. I think something simplier and easy would do just fine for me. My case is kind of small (but not a Shuttle or anything like that) and I plan to be moving it around to various LANs a bit.

So far I've looked into the Zalman 9500 but was wondering if there is anything similar that might yield better results.

Thanks!
GF
 
The Arctic Freezer 7 Pro would be a good choice.

Heat pipes and low price and good cooling for the win.

Also it already has a great thermal compound on the heatsink so you won't need to use your AS5.

I picked mine up for like $22 Canadian. Dropped my temps by about 13C.

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/cpu2.php?idx=79&disc
 
That one looks good... would it be better to use their thermal compound or scrape it off for the AS5?
 
he already covered that in his post :p Its got a good TIM on it so you wont need AS5, but if you so desire, you may get better results :p
 
The stock compound is said to be equal to and possibly better than AS5.
 
Did a little reading up on it, apparently it is heavier than Intel recommends? Is there any danger of me breaking something when I move my case around?
 
I will put in a vote for just using the stock heatsink and fan. I have a E6300 and Gigabyte DS3 overclocked to 2.96GHz. It stays in the high 40's under load with two instances of folding @ home. I really think the retail hsf is enough unless maybe you plan extreme overclocking. I am at stock voltage on the chip as well.

Lyquist
 
Gamefreak99 said:
Did a little reading up on it, apparently it is heavier than Intel recommends? Is there any danger of me breaking something when I move my case around?
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Though it is heavier than Intel reccomends, it is lighter than most other high-performance heatsinks, so there isn't much danger of breaking as long as you don't treat your PC too rough.
 
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