Stock Heat Sink?

[andrewboon]

Is it okay for me to use the stock heat sink and fan on an Intel i5 2500k? I will MAYBE be overclocking (more than likely not, depending on how it performs while playing SWTOR). If I do overclock, it won't be anything extreme. I'll probably only overclock .1 or .2 numbers. I'm worried that with the stock heatsink it will over heat, and I am not in a position to get an aftermarket heatsink right now, despite how cheap they are.

Also kind of off topic, but I don't feel the issue is big enough to create a whole new thread..

Would this wireless adapter be good enough for gaming? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833704045

My desktop is not close enough to hook up with ethernet. Moving the router isn't an option. I am very nooby when it comes to networking, I have no idea what is good and what isn't.

MOD EDIT: Moved to Cases & Cooling. - Zap

 

[fastamdman]

As I have told you over aim...The intel heatsink is just fine doing its job stock. I don't recommend much of an overclock though on a stock heatsink, especially for someone as new as you. Just watch temps though you should be able to pull 4ghz without an issue.

If you can't purchase a longer cat6e cable for whatever reason, then your only option is to get a wireless setup. As far as that particular adapter I have no experience with it but the reviews don't seem to bad. It doesn't sound like you are all that far away from the router. It would be a million times better just to get a longer cable, BUT if not going wireless will suffice.

 

[tweakboy]

Your gaming should be good with wireless.

2500k , I think you can OC without touching voltage to 3.7 or 3.8Ghz

Things wont get hotter since your not touching the CPU voltage. gl

 

[MustangSVT]

uh... yeah.... stock speed should be perfectly fine with stock intel heatsink...

.... ehhh

 

[T_Yamamoto]

uh... yeah.... stock speed should be perfectly fine with stock intel heatsink...

.... ehhh

UNLESS you want to watercool to make your system silent :awe:

 

[dma0991]

Since it is a mere 100-200MHz increase the stock cooler would be good enough but in the long run it is better to invest in a decent tower cooler when you have the money. It can be much more silent compared to the stock cooler and definitely improved cooling performance for OC.

For the USB dongle, I do have a TP-Link that is somewhat similar but without the antenna. It should have a minor increase in signal strength but I'd still prefer gaming over LAN cable especially if the games you're playing are sensitive to latency. The latency from the USB dongle to your router will add to the overall latency to the server.

 

[ctk1981]

I have that exact wireless adapter. Generally use it when I work on peoples computers but this last time I built my computer I forgot to plug in my dlink wireless extreme adapter so I just used that one to tide me by...oddly enough, that little dongle gets better signal strength than the dlink with three antennas. It'll work great imo.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I've applied some mild over-clocks to systems running the stock CPU cooler (although the systems were exclusively LGA_775.)

Primary factors: The TDP specification for the processor. For the i5-2500 and i7-2600 processors, that spec should be 95W. This spec suggests how much heat your processor will emit when the CPU is running under load.

Over-clocking will increase the thermal wattage in these ways: 1) linearly, with the increase in speed (Mhz); 2) exponentially, with an increase in CPU VCORE voltage.

A rule of thumb: See what over-clock speed you can achieve at the stock VCORE. You would then likely see that the temperature increases due to the speed increase are within the 72.6C thermal spec of the processor (the TM1 throttling spec).

These overclocks I mentioned are typically 12% over the stock speed -- so for instance, a 3.2 Ghz stock speed has an over-clock to about 3.6 Ghz. Anything above 12%, and anything that requires a voltage increase -- you would likely want to purchase an after-market cooler such as the ~$25 CoolerMaster Hyper 212-plus.

For the i5-2500K, your overclocking will likely be "Turbo" overclocking: you would over-clock the maximum turbo speed for the processor, which will otherwise idle at the stock speed (with EIST disabled) -- or approximately half that with EIST enabled.

 

[Zap]

Also kind of off topic, but I don't feel the issue is big enough to create a whole new thread..

So, you don't think it a big enough issue to create a whole new thread, but you created a whole new thread on a different CPU cooler? And both of them in the wrong forum to boot.

ON topic, why wouldn't the stock cooler be sufficient for near stock speeds?

 

[Smoblikat]

Your gaming should be good with wireless.

2500k , I think you can OC without touching voltage to 3.7 or 3.8Ghz

Things wont get hotter since your not touching the CPU voltage. gl

Ya, the same heatsink that ships with the I5 ships with the I7, and all the old core2 series procs as well, so if it can handle them it can handle a 32nm chip @ 3.5ghz .

My 2500K does 4.5ghz on stock volts.