Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Windows 7 PC Build

CV. The site I linked to has forums where you can ask questions about stuff like this. Unless its a very new case, someone there can probably tell you if it will fit.

But then I'd be cheating on the Axiom forums. Am I really cool enough to pull it off?

But it would be twice the sausage fest...

That's what I'd do. Not worry about finding an aftermarket to fit right away. See how you like the factory model. That'll also give you time to track down one that fits, and have first hand measurements of how much space you have to work with.

Get some AcrtiClean too, that'll make clean up after removing any heatsink much easier.

Got my release version of Win7 up and running today. Only took 6 hours to get the machine to have enough software installed to be usable. You know I have over 10,000 photos which take up 27 GB?

Chris. Does Intel provice better stock coolers with their more expensive cpus?

While I am very impressed with the stock cooler on my AMD, the Celeron I use for surfing makes a huge racket.

They do, generally.

Know what? I've never bought a Celeron. I'll have to defer on this one.

I will say that I hate Intel's current idea for heatsink retention. Those press-to-spread clips. They're worthless. AMD's screwed down heatsinks can't be beat on the other hand.

Heh. In the interest of full disclosure, I've never bought a celeron either. And my Core i7 is the only Intel I've ever owned. The stock HSF never came out of the box.

Fred, if when you said "better" you meant quieter, I'd say no. If you meant more effective at keeping cool, not sure as I immediately dumped mine for something different.

About 4 months ago I replaced a ~3 year old AMD dual core processor with an Intel i7 920 and remember thinking the Intel's fan sounded like a helicopter when I installed it. I believe I'm more sensitive to noise in my PC than average, but it really was loud. I knew the minute I turned it on I would have to replace it with something quieter.

Jason