Cooling fan for Core 2 duo

I am planning a system built around a Core 2 Duo E8400 cpu. I have not
put a system together for a number of years.

1. Am I correct that a cooler is not furnished in the retail box (if I
can find one of these for cpu's! they seem to be in short supply)?

2. Assuming not, does anyone have any recos for a good quality fan? I
am not a gamer, just video editing, lots of DVD burning, and just
standard low-demand business apps?

3. Should I use a good grease, like Artic Silver, for mounting any fan?

Thanks in advance,
Ken K

Tom Lake said the following on 4/14/2008 2:33 AM:


"Ken" wrote in message
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I am planning a system built around a Core 2 Duo E8400 cpu. I have
not put a system together for a number of years.

1. Am I correct that a cooler is not furnished in the retail box (if
I can find one of these for cpu's! they seem to be in short supply)?

No you are not correct. The OEM version doesn't include the fan but the
Retail
Boxed version does.

Tom Lake
Thanks,
Ken K

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:45:03 -0700, Ken wrote:

I am planning a system built around a Core 2 Duo E8400 cpu. I have not
put a system together for a number of years.

1. Am I correct that a cooler is not furnished in the retail box (if I
can find one of these for cpu's! they seem to be in short supply)?

2. Assuming not, does anyone have any recos for a good quality fan? I
am not a gamer, just video editing, lots of DVD burning, and just
standard low-demand business apps?

3. Should I use a good grease, like Artic Silver, for mounting any fan?

Thanks in advance,
Ken K

The stock cooler that comes in the retail box will be fine unless you are
planing to do some serious overclocking. You should be able to get a 10%
overclock with Intel's cooler, if you are looking to push the processor
up 30% then you would want to get a high performance cooler like a
Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme.

The retail version of that CPU DOES include the cooling fan assembly and a
thermal pad. The included cooler is adequate if you don't overtax or
overclock your CPU.

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--DaveW

"Ken" wrote in message
...
I am planning a system built around a Core 2 Duo E8400 cpu. I have not put
a system together for a number of years.

1. Am I correct that a cooler is not furnished in the retail box (if I
can find one of these for cpu's! they seem to be in short supply)?

2. Assuming not, does anyone have any recos for a good quality fan? I am
not a gamer, just video editing, lots of DVD burning, and just standard
low-demand business apps?

3. Should I use a good grease, like Artic Silver, for mounting any fan?

Thanks in advance,
Ken K

Shawn wrote:
"Ken" wrote in message ...
I am planning a system built around a Core 2 Duo E8400 cpu. I have not
put a system together for a number of years.

1. Am I correct that a cooler is not furnished in the retail box (if I
can find one of these for cpu's! they seem to be in short supply)?

The retail processor does come with a heatsink & cooling fan but I'm not
at all pleased with it. It places stress on the system board where it is
mounted. I replaced mine with an aftermarket fan with a board backing
plate & the heatsink screws into the plate through the holes in the
mainboard.

The snap-in mounting system for Socket 775 is terrible, I agree - although
it's hardly limited to Intel stock coolers, plenty of third party coolers
use it.

Even if using the stock cooler, it's worth a couple of bucks for a decent
tube of thermal grease, as it's easy to damage the pad if you have to make a
couple of tries getting the cooler to mount properly. For the stock cooler,
I've always used the cheaper Artic compounds (Ceramique or Aluminum, rather
than silver), but it doesn't hurt to use the better stuff other than a few
extra dollars.

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