i5 8400 - cooler

[kopernikov]

Dear all,

 

After the better part of the decade passed, I decided to splash the cash and got myself an i5 8400 (mobo and all). My old CPU (AMD FX-4170) had some cooling issues, so I had purchased a Zalman CNPS5X Performa, which worked wonders. I have this cooler for quite some time. Now, since the i5 comes with a stock cooler, I was wondering if I should use my Zalman instead (it's gonna be a major pain to discover where I've put the parts for fitting it on a 1151 socket - a proper excavation I tell you!). So, thoughts? Stock or aftermarket? I'm leaning towards not bothering, since the new chip has a 65W TDP, while my old (crappy in terms of thermals) CPU had a TDP of 125W (lower consumption, lower temps, amarite?).

[Skiiwee29]

Stock cool is adequate for a non overclockable CPU. You will be just fine using the stock Intel cooler on there. 

[grimreeper132]

if you have the Zalman one already and can easily find it's bracket (either in storage or online for cheap £5 max proabably) then use it, if you can't get/find one then use the stock cooler as that is good enough, I would replace the thermal paste though, with better stuff (that's just me though stock paste probably is good enough) 

[LogicalDrm]

If you can get brackets, use aftermarket cooler. Stock is fine for temps, but aftermarket ones are usually bit quieter for same performance numbers.

[kopernikov]

22 hours ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

If you can get brackets, use aftermarket cooler. Stock is fine for temps, but aftermarket ones are usually bit quieter for same performance numbers.

I came back to say that and just saw your comment! Been using the new cpu a couple days now and it's great, thermals are great too. But the stock intel cooler is way louder than what I was used to with the zalman! I'm going bracket-hunting this weekend or get a new one, like BeQuiet!'s Pure Rock Slim.

 

For the record, thermal juice was changed asap.