Stock cooling replacement

untranslatedza

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Hi.
I have a core i3 Sandy Bridge 2120, and another PC for my girlfriend a celeron E2100.

The celeron has a standard heatsink, but the fans blades broke off due to too many years of abuse, i strapped a system fan to the heatsink but its noisy.

My question is, a Blizzard T2 Mini or a CM Hyper 101 vs standard cooling for the i3 system, since i want to get another cooler for my i3 and simply place the i3's stock fan on the Celerons Heatsink. I am scepticle about dirt cheap after market cooling.

Would a Blizzard T2 Mini or a Hyper 101 or a Vortex 211Q or P be better or worse than the standard cooling unit, since i cant find any information comparisons. Otherwise im going to just get a Coolermaster X dream LGA775 for my second PC.

inb4 everyone just says get a hyper 212. :D, i know is a good cheap cooler, but i would prefer to spend as little as possible since its a second PC and im not guna modify my very quiet main case
 
The celeron E2100 is a socket 775 cpu. The mounting holes are different from your i3-2120 socket 1155 cpu.

About the cheapest 775 cooler might be this rosewill cooler which is similar to the stock intel cooler :
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835200054

Or.. look on ebay, you should find a replacement intel 775 stock cooler.
Here is one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-E97375-001-3-5-inch-Aluminum-CPU-Cooler-for-LGA775-Fast-Shipping-OEM-/321032230541?pt=US_CPU_Fans_Heatsinks&hash=item4abf03168d
 

They are no better than the stock cooler. If your stock cooler fan is failing, they are a reasonable replacement. Cooling will be adequate, but under load, any cooler with a 92mm fan will spin up and be noisy.