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I'm not sure where the "stock cooler can't handle the 3770K" nonsense is coming from. I just tried it out on my machine: stock i7-3770K with the stock cooler. Using FFT-z, after five minutes at 100% the temperature was stable at 63°C, and according to the readout the processor was running at 4.4GHz (which seems odd to me, I thought the TURBO BOOST on the 3770K was only 3.9?)

Maybe Intel has changed something recently (I've had mine for only a couple weeks), or maybe some people have just ended up with bad parts for whatever reason, but I'm not seeing problems here.

Sure, 63°C isn't fantastic cooling, but I stand by my earlier statement that the stock cooler is plenty for stock speeds or mild overclocks.

On an entirely unrelated note...any recommendations for doing something about coil whine? I suspect the power supply. Is this something that I can/should RMA for?
 
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I'm not sure where the "stock cooler can't handle the 3770K" nonsense is coming from. I just tried it out on my machine: stock i7-3770K with the stock cooler. Using FFT-z, after five minutes at 100% the temperature was stable at 63°C, and according to the readout the processor was running at 4.4GHz (which seems odd to me, I thought the TURBO BOOST on the 3770K was only 3.9?)

Maybe Intel has changed something recently (I've had mine for only a couple weeks), or maybe some people have just ended up with bad parts for whatever reason, but I'm not seeing problems here.

Sure, 63°C isn't fantastic cooling, but I stand by my earlier statement that the stock cooler is plenty for stock speeds or mild overclocks.

I think it's bad parts some people ended up with. I can't really imagine that Intel sells their best CPU's with useless coolers.

But I'm quite happy with my Cooler Master dual fan cooler. 52°C on 100% for 25 minutes isn't too bad for an i7 3770 I guess.

On an entirely unrelated note...any recommendations for doing something about coil whine? I suspect the power supply. Is this something that I can/should RMA for?

I have the same problem for years on any system since use powerful graphics cards with 1GB+ of RAM and dual core CPU's. It either is the PSU or graphics card or both which creates that strange noise. But I use headphones most of the time anyway, so I don't hear it. Or I turn up the speakers while gaming.
 
On an entirely unrelated note...any recommendations for doing something about coil whine? I suspect the power supply. Is this something that I can/should RMA for?

I had exactly the same problem with my old rig.
First I thought it is the onbaord audio interfering with my speakers.
When I switch my speakers of the other day, the whine remain.
It turned out it was my PSU.
And when I replaced it with a brand new one, the whine vanished with the old PSU.:)
Mine sound like a high pitch whistle.


BTW...here is a screenshot of my CPU temperatures with the stock cooler.

http://www.orbiter-forum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=11125&stc=1&d=1355486487
 

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