Whats the best Socket 775 HSF?

[ahhell]

Quick question: why would you be willing to spend 50 quid on a heat sink for a Pentium D? Wouldn't be smarter to use that money for a Core2 and run the stock fan?

[toadeater]

Fixed! No point in confusing the kiddies. ;)

Oh, and the stock coolers today are *much* improved and perform well at stock. Check anandtech for one of their reviews.

They're ok for stock speeds and average overclocking, but they're too loud and the cheap fans Intel uses break down too quickly. They'll still work, but they sound like vacuum cleaners after a while.

[gwai lo]

Quick question: why would you be willing to spend 50 quid on a heat sink for a Pentium D? Wouldn't be smarter to use that money for a Core2 and run the stock fan?

The problem with that idea is that he already has a chip. ;)

They're ok for stock speeds and average overclocking, but they're too loud and the cheap fans Intel uses break down too quickly. They'll still work, but they sound like vacuum cleaners after a while.

I haven't had mine break, but I agree that they get loud when the system goes under load.

[ABzHQ2k]

Well I was planning on getting a Core 2 Duo but as the Heatsink bought my temps down I figured that can wait for a couple of months now.

I spent more on this upgrade than I planned to anyway so another ?150 on a cpu wasn't a good idea, when I could just spend ?50 on a heatsink for now and it will be useful when I do get a new C2D as I will be overclocking anyway.

Well its been a week since I installed the heatsink and the temps haven't gone over 43C, idles between 34-36C