Are all 775 stock coolers the same?

[mouse24]

This might seems like a noobish thing to ask but google got me nowhere so here goes:

I have a 775 C2Q and an unknown heatsink that belonged to an ancient 775 socket. I really need this PC up and running as fast as possible but rather than risk hardware I thought I'd ask first just to be sure.

 

[MU_Engineer]

No. The stock coolers varied quite a bit depending on the Thermal Design Power (heat production) of the CPU, but all were round, had a fan on the top, and had the terrible push pins. The least bad ones (I am using that in quotes for a reason) had a copper lug in the bottom and the aluminum fins were about 2 inches tall. They typically shipped with the fastest 100+ watt Pentium 4s and 130 watt Pentium Ds. Next worst were the all-aluminum ones the same size as the first, which were shipped with most LGA775 Pentium 4s and Pentium Ds. The worst ones are the about 1 1/4 inch tall "short" aluminum units used with the lower-TDP Core 2 Duo generation chips.

Intel CPUs since the P4 throttle and will not let themselves overheat to the point of destruction. Put the heatsink on the C2Q and watch the temps; if they suck go spend $25 on a decent heatsink, if they aren't too bad, use your current heatsink.

 

[mouse24]

Bah I thought as much. Though I was hoping they merely made one 120w version and simply used it on all there models rather than engineering all new coolers. Sadly not.

Thanks for the help.