Does it come with a stock fan, and is it good for OC'ing?
45360
yes it does and the stock fan has thermal grease on it ready to be installed
45361
Yes it comes with a stock fan, however I use a water cooler when I overclock. But the power gain and speed is incredible!
45362
It comes with a stock fan, it gets pretty loud at times, I will recommend an aftermarket cooler/fan for overclocking
45363
yes.the stock cooler is not enough for the job. and the CPU wull shut down due to over heating.better to get an after market cooler
45364
It comes with a fan yes, but with normal use it gets quite loud. It stays cool but it's noisy, I got a Zalman CNPS9005A-LED which says it's for up to AM3 but AM3+ is the same mount. It's still a little noisy under heavy load but it keeps the temp around 45, highest I've seen is 53
1685247
Yes, it comes with an AMD fan/heat sink that works very well. If you plan to overclock, then you should probably look for an after-market set up.
1022050
Yes, It comes with a stock cooler with thermal paste pre-applied. All you have to do is simply snap the cooler on place and plug it in. very simple.
595075
It comes with a heatsink and fan with thermal paste already applied.Depending on how much you want to push your processor, I would recommend finding a better heatsink since the one included is merely 'adequate' for normal uses. Mine has pretty high temps with even small overclocking with the stock cooler.
1022052
Yes it comes with the stock cooler and generic thermal paste. I however wiped off the thermal paste that came with it and then used a BB sized dot of arctic silver thermal paste. It is able to handle the load I put on it with 2 ATI RADEON HD 5850 cross fired using the stock cooler. Very impressed with it so far.
1476219
Why would you purchase a $329 premium CPU and then rely on a stock cheap [terrible] fan? Do yourself the favor and take 15% of your investment on this CPU and buy at least a $45 cooler. Liquid cooling without reservoirs have really come down in price too ~$40-$70 depending on what level of OC you want to do.
1022053
Yes it comes with the stock fan and the thermal paste is already on the cooler so you don't need any thermal paste.
1440805
Retail Package has an included fan and heatsink: but it's going to be LOUD. I suggest a Liquid Cooling Assembly like the Antec H2O 620. I have found it fits nicely on both sockets 775 and 1155.
274088
The stock heatsink and fan that comes with the cpu works fine for me and I have it installed in one of those very compact htpc cases (Antec ISK-100) over a year now. This processor is NOT the overclocked version which is usually called the (K) model so I don't see why it would be necessary to have a third party state of the art heatsink and fan. I guess if you purchased the overclocked cpu version of this processor and planned on pushing it to the limits then I would recommend finding a much better heatsink and fan unit over the stock model. I have a really nice and expensive Cool Master heatsink and fan unit on a desktop computer and I don't see any difference in performance or heating issues over the stock heatsink and fan with the exception of more noise that the Cool Master makes because of it's larger and faster fan. I'm sorry to say, I was once bitten by the performance bug when building that ole desktop and should have just saved the money and go stock instead.
1022054
Comes with the stock cooler, no thermal paste. If you are going to overclock I recommend upgrading the cooler.
181342
Fractal Design makes some pretty good stock fans. I'm using the ones included in my rig, if that helps. I also have a Fractal Design Arc XL that I use Fractal's fans with.
1278048
I bought mine 5 years ago. It had a stock fan and paste applied. The cpu is still going strong but I have oberclocked it to 3.0 going watercooled. I wouldn't use stock fan unless cpu is only used for office type application.
2162348
My experience: I have a fan-less PSU and the stock setup is adequate. However, I do not use their included fan splitter, because my motherboard supported multi-zone tuning (no evidence that this is better/worse... YMMV). Fans are off/low most of the time under normal load. Hope this helps...
954790
It comes with a heatsink/fan and does not need extra thermal paste because the thermal paste has already been applied to it. Stock cooler is moderately loud if your case is within 2-3 feet from your ears. Idle is tolerable. It revs up when playing games and can interfere with your speaker volumes. After market cooler is considered.
945822
Yes. It comes with a Cooler Master heat sink / fan combo that has a few heat pipes and thermal compound pre-applied. With the stock heat sink my CPU temp (at 4.2 GHz) at idle is only 34 C and so far has only gotten up to 45 C when gaming.
943324
If you buy a Retail Boxed version then yes it comes with an Intel fan. If you buy an OEM version it will only be the cpu.
1420289
It includes a fan. If you plan to overclock it at all, buy a better one. If not, the one included should do fine.