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I don't have air conditioning in the summer, and I don't like the idea of water cooling, so I was concerned that I may be building a noisy air-cooled monster. I was resigned to live with a bit of noise, since I had another dead silent system which would be powered up most of the time.
I figured that I would order the Intel stock air cooled thermal solution, BXRTSLGA2011AC, until I could find something better suited to my needs. Yes, I was aware that almost everyone criticises the stock Intel HSF. But for $19.99, I wasn't gonna keep about a grand worth of parts laying on the table waiting for assembly.
When I got the Intel HSF, initial inspection left me with the feeling that this would be a VERY TEMPORARY stop gap solution.
The Heatsink was of modest size, and the fan blew down upon it, Which I liked, but it was almost entirely constructed of aluminum. Only a thin sliver of copper was used on the bottom to make contact with the processor's heat spreader.
What was even more shocking, and disappointing was that the heatsink's contact area was round, and only covered approximately 60 percent of the processor's heat spreader!
I THOUGHT NO WAY WAS THIS THING GONNA DISSIPATE 130 WATTS OF GENERATED HEAT!
The heatsink came with a thin layer of thermal paste pre-applied. With thirty years of dealing with computers, one realizes that manufacturers prepare their products for distribution assuming the worst situations in the field. They are much more concerned that something will at least work out of the box, rather than work well. Thus one finds heatsinks with too much thermal paste. This will assure the vendor that at least "some" sort of contact will be made, but not necessarily the best contact.Read more ›
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Nothing fancy here, pretty much what you would expect for a stock cooling solution from Intel. The base of this heatsink is very small, I don't think it even covers the entire processor. There is also a very minimal amount of copper on the base.
On the positive side it provides adequate cooling, just don't plan on overclocking. It's also very quiet which is always a good thing. Overall it's a decent heatsink for basic cooling, plus the price is cheap!
Pros: Blue LED Lighting Easy to Install Very Quiet Cheap
Cons: Small base Minimal amount of copper Average cooling
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I bought this when I built my own system with the i7, but wasn't sure how it would fit or work. I don't regret buying it at all, and the price was great also!
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This fan/heatsink worked very well on my standard clocked 4820 CPU. I replaced it though when, during the summer, the ambient temp in the house began to rise to 26c and cpu temps began to rise to the 64c mark. One afternoon at 27c in the house, I ran prime95 as a test and shut the test down when the cpu hit 68c. I cleaned some dust off the fan blades, and the heat sink, and re-ran the test with the same result. The fan seems to have worked great for about 9 months. I didn't re-apply the thermal paste, or reseat the heat sink, I bought a new liquid cooler.
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Sometimes simplicity is the best solution. After experimenting with a fancy and expensive water cooling solution that ultimately failed. I got this as a temporary solution. Hah! It works better than the water cooler ever did. Way, way better. I never expected comparatively small fan and heat sink to keep an i7-3930k cool. After all the water cooler struggled to keep it below 80c. Hah! My core temps never get above 60c now.
Simplicity wins the day
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I purchased this heatsink to replace a Corsair H80i which was taking up WAY too much space in an NZXT phantom case. I do not really overclock my CPU (Core i7 4930-K) as I feel it is powerful enough at the stock turbo speeds for my gaming needs. This actually allows my case to stay cooler overall than the massive H80i.
For the price it cannot be beat if you are not overclocking at extreme levels.
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Despite the very un-cool aspect (sorry for the pun) of putting a "stock" cooler on a $1K processor, this cooler is very capable and quiet. I put this on an i7-4860X (130 Watt), and with "BurnIn Test" running all cores at 100% for 10 minutes, no core got over 71C, with the average in the upper 60's. The fan never sounded like it was working hard. I'll be using it in other builds.
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