i5 6500 Standard Fan or not.

[Thefirstone111]

Hey, i'm reading some mixed messages about the cooler on the Intel i5 6500 cpu.
I just got it in the mail today and the fan that shipped with it looks a little... small...

Will this cause any issues? I would not mind spending another 20-40 on a fan if it will prevent any future problems/make my cpu last a bit longer.

How hard is it to replace the fan afterwards?

I'm in the netherlands. cannot order from amazon etc.

build:
Sapphire Radeon R9 380 4GB Nitro
Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor
MSI B150M MORTAR Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory

Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
1 TB HDD
Seasonic S12II bronze+ 620W
Corsair SPEC-01 case

 

[navalweaponsofficer]

Your boxed cooler will be fine.

 

[2Be_or_Not2Be]

Your boxed cooler will be fine.

Agreed. If you're not planning on overclocking, then you'll be just fine with the stock cooler.

 

[Terrorsquad1990]

Hey the firststone!

It shouldn't be a problem but just a heads up from another Skylake-user:
You will see your temps run higher than most other CPU's time to time and I'm here to say it's fine (if performing heavy tasks, can be 5-20° difference compared to other Intel CPU's)
The reason is because it's smaller (14nm) compared to the usual 22nm CPU's.

The Skylake's throttle-temp is about 100°C aswel, which is the temperature your PC will either pause in applications or shut down to save your CPU just incase. Just keep an eye on temps time to time with CORETEMP, which is my fav little software to keep an eye on temps.

A stock cooler should be sufficient if you're not planning to overclock or stress-test your PC too much.
Just make sure you got adequate intake from the front and maybe even the side.
Exhaust is also very important, which should be on top and behind of the PC.

This should make your stock cooler do its work without issues.

 

[Supernova1138]

If you're not overclocking, there's really only two reasons to get an aftermarket cooler. The first being if you want really quiet operation, in which case aftermarket coolers have larger fans that don't need to spin as fast to cool the CPU. The second reason is if you're living in a very hot environment and you're running your PC in a room with no air conditioning. The stock cooler might struggle to keep the load temperatures down to an acceptable level if you have a very high ambient temperature eg. 35 celsius or higher.

 

[Thefirstone111]

Thanks for the advice guys. I'll just go with the stock cooler for now and of course keep an eye on what temperatures i'm running on my CPU with just that.

Seems most fans i'm looking at don't actually come with some sort of back plate to mount on the MB like i thought, so i suppose i can still add a more powerfull fan later if it's needed. Might just get one just to be safe, and because it looks cool, but for now i'll stick to the standard one.