New System Any Good?

[ajbrun]

How quiet is the stock cooler than comes with an E6600? Is it worth me getting something like this to use in fanless mode?

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=296802

At the moment, my the noise from my current PC can annoy me, so I'm hoping to cut this down. Maybe stock coolers have moved on from what they were 3 years ago? My parents Athlon 64 seems pretty quiet using the stock cooler .

EDIT - Quick thought, the E6600 does come with thermal paste doesn't it, or have I heard wrong?

 

[ai_01]

negative paste does not come with the cpu, retail or oem, im sure where ever ur getting it @ might have a bundled discount price for the paste.

 

[equk]

How quiet is the stock cooler than comes with an E6600? Is it worth me getting something like this to use in fanless mode?

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=296802

At the moment, my the noise from my current PC can annoy me, so I'm hoping to cut this down. Maybe stock coolers have moved on from what they were 3 years ago? My parents Athlon 64 seems pretty quiet using the stock cooler .

EDIT - Quick thought, the E6600 does come with thermal paste doesn't it, or have I heard wrong?

I'm not sure why you'd save £10 on the mobo by getting the cheaper one and save £5 here and there by getting stuff allover the place and then spend £35 on a massive overclocking cooler that you won't need

I'm not sure how noisy the stock intel one is, if at all. But you can always set the mobo to control the cpu fan speed so it speeds up when and if the cpu heats up (That's what I've done and I'm overclocked)

I just checked my stock hsf which I've never used and it does have silver compound already applied to the bottom.

I just thought, how noisy is the 8800GTX fan, I bet it's noisier than the intel stock cooler

 

[ajbrun]

OK, thanks. I'll stick with whatever cooler they give me then .

Should I get some paste just to be safe, as one's said I need it, and another said I don't...

 

[ai_01]

AS5 is worth the 5 US (im guessing its 3 GBP) by far, for a couple pounds it will drop the temp @ least 3C if not more.

 

[equk]

If you're going to overclock, I'd say possibly get some. Altho you said you're going to run it at stock it wouldn't matter really. (AS5 costs around £7 I think )

It will prob only make a few degrees difference as the stock stuff is already the silver type and not that rubbish bubblegum stuff you get on certain HSFs.

It comes in handy if you're getting into clocking properly tho as you can use it to replace the crappy compound that comes on northbridge's and GPU's etc, but it sounds like you're just going to go for a stock system and not play with clocking/modding components.

 

[Ham]

FYI ai the stock cooler does come with thermal paste applied. And its not bad thermal paste.

Ajbrun, stick with the stock cooler.