need CPU cooling advice

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Lazarey

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I am going to order a Velocity Micro Vector GX Holiday Edition tomorrow and would like to know which CPU Cooling solution I should choose.

The base option is:
Intel Certified Oversized Heatsinc/Fan with Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound, Thermal Controlled Variable Speed Fan.

This is the other option (it costs $35 more):
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Heatsink, Ultra Quiet Fan, Copper Heat Pipes, plus Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound.

The system is going to be configured something like this:
PSU: 500 Watt Velocity Micro Power Supply with Dual Blue Lighted Fans.
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400, dual 2.13 GHz cores, 2MB L2 Cache.
Graphics Card: 256MB eVGA NVIDEA GeForce 7600 GS Dual Heads.
RAM: 1024MB Corsair DDR2 PC5300 DDR667 (1 x 1024).

I may decide to go with the E6300 processor. The case also has two 120mm fans in it.
 
I'd get the regular Intel certified one. Later on if you need it, you can get the Freezer 7 Pro version for less than $35 and install it yourself.
 
theelectic said:
I'd get the regular Intel certified one. Later on if you need it, you can get the Freezer 7 Pro version for less than $35 and install it yourself.
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Is it difficult to install? I don't have much computer building experience, though I have friends who do.
 
How will I know if I need to upgrade? And if the answer is 'it will get hot', how do you know the temp of parts? I read about people saying so and so part is running too hot and I always wonder how they know. Is it a program?
 
Well it depends on what you want to do with your computer... If you're going to be overclocking beyond whatever, then you might need to eventually invest. But for using it for anything you want without changing any configuration, then by all means the stock one is fine. Velocity micro won't sell you a computer that won't work right if you use it.
 
if you are not going to overclock it then I wouldn't really bother with the upgrade unless you want it to be slightly less noisey.
 
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