Differences between Intel stock coolers

[BonzaiDuck]

I'm trying to save myself needless work. I'm building two systems: a twin to my sig-rig with improvements, and replacement for me old Moms or my disabled brother.

I'm currently using Mom's new mobo to test a new i7-2700K -- with the stock cooler. The heatpipe tower I ordered and received has not been installed.

I'm awaiting another motherboard -- a Sabertooth Z77 -- which seemed like a bargain. I got the board and all that was in it. That is, the seller threw in the i5-3570K processor in the bargain.

Frankly, the bargain seems almost too good to be true, but the user seemed to be "like us," and he's in a hurry to upgrade to a 4790K. I'm hoping the board proves out.

To test his board, I want to put the 2700K's stock cooler on the i5-3570K.

If there's something wrong with the Sabertooth, I will have avoided installing the heatpipe cooler, which I can then go ahead and throw on the existing Z77 setup with the 2700K. Or -- I can try and find another board -- one of you pointed me to his EBay offer. And THEN install the heatpipe cooler, if the new board proves out.

I'm assuming the 2700K cooler should be adequate just to test the 3570K and (especially) the Sabertooth that comes with it. How much would Intel vary these stock coolers? I can certainly see that an i3 cooler is light, doesn't have the copper core, isn't as much a beefy design among the Intel coolers. And you'd think the TDP across those two processors would favor using the 2700K cooler.

 

[ClockHound]

To just spark it up and confirm good at stock...won't be a problem.

But, really, I'm a little disappointed you don't have 2 or 3 spare 3rd party coolers on hand. We're enthusiasts, mainly proper computer desktop enthusiasts. It's our duty as enthusiast consumers to buy more stuff for each build than we use. And why isn't your stock 2600k cooler not already in use, like Intel intended, as a desktop paper clip holder/sculpture? ;-)

 

[XavierMace]

To just spark it up and confirm good at stock...won't be a problem.

But, really, I'm a little disappointed you don't have 2 or 3 spare 3rd party coolers on hand. We're enthusiasts, mainly proper computer desktop enthusiasts. It's our duty as enthusiast consumers to buy more stuff for each build than we use. And why isn't your stock 2600k cooler not already in use, like Intel intended, as a desktop paper clip holder/sculpture? ;-)

QFT. I've got 4 stock coolers in the closet. LOL.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

To just spark it up and confirm good at stock...won't be a problem.

But, really, I'm a little disappointed you don't have 2 or 3 spare 3rd party coolers on hand. We're enthusiasts, mainly proper computer desktop enthusiasts. It's our duty as enthusiast consumers to buy more stuff for each build than we use. And why isn't your stock 2600k cooler not already in use, like Intel intended, as a desktop paper clip holder/sculpture? ;-)

Ha! I love it!! I have four, big, vinyl Rubber-Maid parts-locker bins -- heavy duty chests with latches and locks -- filled with spare hardware. So I'm certainly no exception.

Somewhere in there, I may find an Intel cooler -- intact. I keep going through those chests to discard at the electronic recycling center stuff that I will never, never use. to make more space for more "stuff." I know I threw away a couple of those Intel coolers in the last six months.

Others -- I'd pulled the fans off 'em and modded into HDD coolers or any number of uses.

But aluminum heatsinks? In that size? I once saw a tasteless cartoon that appeared in a certain magazine during Easter season: Jesus was carrying his cross up the hill -- the stations of the cross. The Roman soldier offers him a can of beer.

"Light beer?!! Are you kidding?!" Jesus says.

"Have you ever TASTED light beer?!!"

[As for the publisher of the mag in which that cartoon appeared. They made a movie about him, casting Woody Harrelson. Drugstore cowboys! Certainly, one would rather spend the money on a GTX 980. If you want "graphics" -- 4K is better. Of course, there was the cartoon about Bill Clinton, wolfing down double-cheese-burgers while jogging around the White House. . . . ]