L lfforte Distinguished Feb 26, 2010 149 0 18,680 Apr 28, 2010 #1 Is the stock cooler that comes with the CPU sufficient? No overclocking and occasional gaming only.
EXT64 Splendid Mar 1, 2007 8,069 10 31,165 Apr 28, 2010 #2 It will work fine if you have decent case airflow, Intel wouldn't include a cooler that couldn't cool the chip. However, if you did want to upgrade, the Hyper 212+ is only $30. Upvote 0 Downvote
It will work fine if you have decent case airflow, Intel wouldn't include a cooler that couldn't cool the chip. However, if you did want to upgrade, the Hyper 212+ is only $30.
werxen Distinguished Sep 26, 2008 1,331 0 19,310 Apr 28, 2010 #3 Generally not for high overclocking but then again you never know - you might have an amazing chip that can run at a very low vcore which makes the biggest impact on temps. Upvote 0 Downvote
Generally not for high overclocking but then again you never know - you might have an amazing chip that can run at a very low vcore which makes the biggest impact on temps.