Thats the same heatsink that came with my early c2d.
Do its size and cooper base I have used it to run off 6 different c2d,920,930,i5k and a 3770k to 4000-4100mhz before mounting water blocks.
yes it could definitely handle CPUs with much higher TDP than the lower C2Ds models, that's why I thought it would fit in this topic as an "overkill" cooler from Intel (e6300)
I'm replying to this post via an ibm x41 tablet PC I got just recently, 1.5ghz pentium M. The CPU is at 50% or more use almost constantly (partly because I play music through winamp with lots of plugins and use breakaway audio enhancer, a very powerful dsp program which makes cheap sound cards output near audiophile grade audio)... The older the system the more it will be hardlined at 100% cpu use, so I really don't understand how you see what I quoted above...
the temps I mentioned were more like "worst case scenario", running burn tests, it's hardly the thing you would get with 50% load or even higher with most stuff, the older the hardware gets it's true that basic tasks can become more taxing, but I still doubt it would make any sense to run something close to "worst case" with it, like rendering, and your Dothan is still quite usable I'm sure, but is it what? 9 years old? even running in a laptop with relatively high temps, it's probably fine for still many years to come, it's more likely to have other parts failing like the LCD, HD or keyboard,
my dual v2 has no cooling on the cards, but my v5 5500 has original heatsink fans which have been cleaned and graphited for better rpm. All my newer cards are specifically bought with proper cooling at the forefront of my mind. The last card I bought without proper cooling was a gts250 by bfg, and I fixed the cooling thusly:
my v2s run extremely hot, I always keep a fan near them, actually one will tend to have some graphical corruption after a while without any additional cooling, the other card is not working perfectly anyway (lockups without obvious relation to temperature)...
back in the day you could buy this:
my V4 4500 I think uses the same cooler as the V5 (I had one but unfortunately sold some 10 years ago), and it's also not so great, the heatsink is tiny can get extremely hot, even more when I'm overclocking the card.
most cards I have with less than optimal cooling normally just need some higher rotation fan to perform adequately, the last VGA cooler I bought was in... 2003
We definitely have different viewpoints here, again probably because I want my systems to still be around until Im gone at least.
Meh it was somewhat germane to the conversation. thanks, but it's a nonissue to me.
It's OK but I don't want my parts to only last for a short period, it's just that I really think those extreme usage cases at 80º are not really a problem for a long, long time.
Some fun pics:
HD3850, back in 2008
I also had this model of 3850, the single slot cooler main problem was the default low speed fan, as long as you upped manually it was fine, but if you want lower noise it can be a problem, my current card is basically the same case... if you look at the GTX Titan the target temperature is 80 ºc, and the card will adjust the fan rotation for that,
but that's one huge heatsink.