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95w cooler on 115w TDP Xeon

gamingandblaming

Hiya.
Doing a (mostly) AliExpress build as I don't really have that much money and want to build a computer.
I meant to order an Xeon E5-2650v2 (95W) but instead accidentally ordered one with an E5-2689 (115w).
Will the Aigo ICE200PRO (95w cooler) that I ordered be able to sufficiently cool this chip? Not looking for ice cold, just enough to not thermal throttle or hang. Any noise is fine as well.
Have Arctic MX-4 thermal paste to use with it, if that helps.

Thanks!

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First thing and most important one, this cooler doesn't support your socket, so it won't fit.

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2 minutes ago, Likwid said:

First thing and most important one, this cooler doesn't support your socket, so it won't fit.

Socket For Intel: 1700/775/1150/1151/1155/1156/1200/1366

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10 hours ago, Likwid said:

First thing and most important one, this cooler doesn't support your socket, so it won't fit.

It has the universal clipping mechanism thing from AMD on it, I bought a cheap adapter from Ali for like $2 and it works. I have another system that I did the exact same thing with, and it worked.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Kind of necroposting (if that's a thing here), but I assembled the computer and the Xeon runs fine at high 60s under full synthetic load and low 60s during gaming, no throttling. Considering that the E5-2689 that I'm using has a max operation temperature of 85C, it's completely fine, albeit a case fan was blowing air into the back of the cooler, which could have helped with cooling.
-Tested synthetic load using AIDA64.
-Tested gaming load with Fortnite, at Medium preset (GTX 970).

TLDR to anyone wanting this question answered for themselves- A 115W Xeon can be tamed by a 95W TDP cooler, as long as the case has decent airflow- even at 100% load, with all cores maxed out, no throttling. At least, from my testing.

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11 hours ago, gamingandblaming said:

Kind of necroposting (if that's a thing here), but I assembled the computer and the Xeon runs fine at high 60s under full synthetic load and low 60s during gaming, no throttling. Considering that the E5-2689 that I'm using has a max operation temperature of 85C, it's completely fine, albeit a case fan was blowing air into the back of the cooler, which could have helped with cooling.
-Tested synthetic load using AIDA64.
-Tested gaming load with Fortnite, at Medium preset (GTX 970).

TLDR to anyone wanting this question answered for themselves- A 115W Xeon can be tamed by a 95W TDP cooler, as long as the case has decent airflow- even at 100% load, with all cores maxed out, no throttling. At least, from my testing.

Necromancer, you are fine since it's your thread. 😉 thanks for the update!

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