I see a lot of people talking about temperature/airflow concerns etc. I personally haven't really used anything but stock cooling for some time. Intel's stock CPU coolers are fine, and the cooling in that $90 case seems perfectly reasonable to me.
So what i want to know is, are you guys talking about OCing your stuff? Because that has always seemed a bit retarded to me, spend an extra $200 on a better Case, Fancy cooling systems, better ram to handle the OC, and better PSU, when $200 simply put into your CPU in the first place is going to make the same/more of a difference in performance that shortening the life of your expensive equipment by OCing.
So, what temps are you guys after?
Matter of fact, I killed my intel stock cooler while ocing an E8200 lol, no amount of thermal paste on it helped.
I switched over to a Freezer Pro 7, and have had it 24/7 @3.8ghz for a few months now. On load it gets no higher than 56c in prime95 and is running 1:1 fsb:ram.
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Matter of fact, I killed my intel stock cooler while ocing an E8200 lol, no amount of thermal paste on it helped.
I switched over to a Freezer Pro 7, and have had it 24/7 @3.8ghz for a few months now. On load it gets no higher than 56c in prime95 and is running 1:1 fsb:ram.