Need Advice for Upgrade

Good fix,
Now let Intel know they missed the boat in the stock cooler department. I shudder to think of those temps existing in my tower....

 

Intel got it just the way they wanted it; do you really think they want chips lasting far past the end of the warranty?

 

On the right is the stock cooler from my 1995 computer, a blazing 200 MHZ Pentium chip, on the left the stock cooler from a 2011 AMD Phenom II six core chip, how times have changed.

 

I still remember when CPUs came without coolers, and you only needed a heatsink when overclocking.
Still, the stock coolers seem to be going backwards on intel chips...the heatsinks that came installed on the old Slot 1 Pentium 2 chips had about the same surface area as the one that came with my i5-2500.

 

u can still get oem cpu,z and they are a bit cheaper.

 

Actually, the OEM version of the i5 2500 is about $100 more expensive.

 

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=6&subid=1275 they are cheaper in uk dont realy know about u s market

 

After currency conversion, shipping, and VAT, the retail version from the USA would still be cheaper for someone in the UK to buy than the OEM part bought from the UK.

 

all iam trying to say is oem should be cheaper in any country regardless as they do not com with heatsink or boxed like retail i always buy oem cpuz as i always use aftermarket coolers.