Intel Heatsink replacement for old Emachiines needed

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Excalibur55

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Hello everyone,

I have an old Emachines T5212 with a Pentium D 805 CPU. The stock heatsink is making a loud rattling noise at start-up. Afterwards, the noise level goes back to normal. I think it will have to be replaced very soon.

I know it's a 7 year-old computer but I would like to keep it as long as I can as a guest machine/retro-gaming computer. For basics needs, it's still an OK machine.

This is a socket 775 machine and the prices for a replacement part are relatively low.

Do you have a suggestion for a low-profile and quiet part ? Budget : 20$ or so (lower is better). Will order from Newegg Canada.

Thanks ! :)
 
Low profile 775 HS for $20? Not many choices...Well, there are, but they are all knock offs of the stock intel HS and differ little from each other, so you might as well take your pick, try and get one with a 92mm fan, bigger the better in this case. If you can fit a tower cooler, then there are one or two good choices on newegg.ca.
 
BlueFireIce said:
Low profile 775 HS for $20? Not many choices...Well, there are, but they are all knock offs of the stock intel HS and differ little from each other, so you might as well take your pick, try and get one with a 92mm fan, bigger the better in this case. If you can fit a tower cooler, then there are one or two good choices on newegg.ca.
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Thank you for the answer; I was thinking about this one :

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Produc...yMark=False&IsFeedbackTab=true#scrollFullInfo

Under my budget with a lot of reviews on the Egg. Unless there are some red flags regarding this model/company; I might give this one a try....
 
It's not bad, like I said, it's pretty much an intel knock off, however, I would go for this one, as it's a larger fan/HS as well as being cheaper and cheaper shipping and the fan supports PWM. If I were you I would open up the PC and check to see how much room you have and get this one if it will fit. While it cost more than the one you linked to shipping is free which makes the total 2.99 cheaper, and it is a FAR better HS for the money, the fan would probably almost never power up on a stock CPU like that. It also supports allot more sockets and being a 92mm tower cooler could be moved to newer computers once you upgrade etc etc while the others are much more limited on the amount of heat they can remove and sockets they will fit on.
 
I will probably go with the Rosewill model... The Xigmatek is a little too big for my Emachines chassis but I ever need to replace the stock Intel heatsink on my Pentium G620 system, I'll probably go with that model.

Thanks !
 
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