Improving the stock Intel cooler

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About this blog: Computers hate me. They really do. Every time I try to do something unusual like add new hardware, something is guaranteed to go wrong. I decided to start writing about my constant problems so that someone else might benefit from my experiences - or at least laugh at them!

Improving the stock Intel cooler

10 July 2009, 11:15am

Ok, so this isn't really so much about "improving" a stock cooler as merging the best bits of two together...

On the left we have a stock cooler from a Pentium D CPU purchased in 2005; on the right a recent purchase off EBay (no idea what CPU it originally came with)

The Pentium D cooler weighs nearly 3 times as much, has more densely packed fins, and appears to have a copper core. The other cooler is a fair bit lighter and looks to be all aluminium. It's very similar to the one that came with my Celeron E1200, but it's slightly taller.

So what's the improvement? Well, I'm taking the fan off the newer cooler, and placing it onto the older one. :-D

Hopefully this will keep me going for now, at least until the weather warms up...

UPDATE: smaller stock cooler: 45C idle, 69C load. Bits n' pieces cooler: 31C idle, 44C load. A huge improvement.