Hi,
Sometimes in the next couple of months I'm going to purchase the bits for my second ever build (first, which is the PC I use now, was an old Athlon x2 2.1ghz build). I'll be using an Intel i5 760 in a Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 motherboard with Kingston 1 x 2GB 1333mhz DDR3 RAM (I'll later add a second identical stick and a pair of G.Skill Ripjaws 2GB 1600mhz DDR3, giving me a total of 8gb.). The graphics card will be a Point of View GeForce 8400 GS either 256mb or 512mb (I'm aware this is a pretty bad graphics card, but I don't play games at all so I'm hoping it should be okay for my usage). For an HDD I'll at first be reusing an 80gb Seagate drive, but I'll later swap this out for a 500GB Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C. For an optical disc drive I'll at first be reusing a TSSCorp IDE DVDRW drive with an IDE to SATA converter, but I'll later swap in a cheap Sony Optiarc read-only (works well with hackintosh and I only use an optical drive about once a month so I don't care about the loss of write functionality). All this will be in a Cooler Master Elite 360 case (default fans + 1 120mm Artic Cooling F12 Pro PWM Case Fan) with an OCZ StealthXstream II 500W PSU. I'll be using this as a hackintosh, with a legally purchased version of Snow Leopard.
The main thing I'm worried about is the temperature of the i5 760. I'm getting the 760 rather than the 750 because it's less than the equivalent of $4 more expensive and I have no experience with overclocking. This does mean I'll be leaving the 760 at it's stock speed of 2.8ghz. I'm planning to use the stock fan, but will this be enough. The references I've been able to find have said that if you plan to overclock a 750 you should go with an aftermarket cooler. I don't plan to overclock my 760, but as it's basically an OC 750 will the stock fan cool it okay (and if so, what sort of idle and load temperatures would I be looking at)? Surely Intel wouldn't sell a CPU with a stock fan that doesn't cool it enough?
Thanks
Sometimes in the next couple of months I'm going to purchase the bits for my second ever build (first, which is the PC I use now, was an old Athlon x2 2.1ghz build). I'll be using an Intel i5 760 in a Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 motherboard with Kingston 1 x 2GB 1333mhz DDR3 RAM (I'll later add a second identical stick and a pair of G.Skill Ripjaws 2GB 1600mhz DDR3, giving me a total of 8gb.). The graphics card will be a Point of View GeForce 8400 GS either 256mb or 512mb (I'm aware this is a pretty bad graphics card, but I don't play games at all so I'm hoping it should be okay for my usage). For an HDD I'll at first be reusing an 80gb Seagate drive, but I'll later swap this out for a 500GB Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C. For an optical disc drive I'll at first be reusing a TSSCorp IDE DVDRW drive with an IDE to SATA converter, but I'll later swap in a cheap Sony Optiarc read-only (works well with hackintosh and I only use an optical drive about once a month so I don't care about the loss of write functionality). All this will be in a Cooler Master Elite 360 case (default fans + 1 120mm Artic Cooling F12 Pro PWM Case Fan) with an OCZ StealthXstream II 500W PSU. I'll be using this as a hackintosh, with a legally purchased version of Snow Leopard.
The main thing I'm worried about is the temperature of the i5 760. I'm getting the 760 rather than the 750 because it's less than the equivalent of $4 more expensive and I have no experience with overclocking. This does mean I'll be leaving the 760 at it's stock speed of 2.8ghz. I'm planning to use the stock fan, but will this be enough. The references I've been able to find have said that if you plan to overclock a 750 you should go with an aftermarket cooler. I don't plan to overclock my 760, but as it's basically an OC 750 will the stock fan cool it okay (and if so, what sort of idle and load temperatures would I be looking at)? Surely Intel wouldn't sell a CPU with a stock fan that doesn't cool it enough?
Thanks
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