I have a E6300 Core 2 DUO 1.8ghz ever since I've had it, it has always run hot. It idles as 57c and with load 65c - 67c that is with the stock heat sink. I overclocked it to 2.4ghz and played a game for 20 mins to put some load on it and it reached 74c so I quickly put it back to 1.8ghz :)
So I bought a Zalman heatsink today. What a nightmare to install. 2 1/2 hours later I boot up and leave it to idle for 5 mins and it idles at 37c woohoo, so I overclock it to 2.4ghz and it idles at 41c so I play the same game for 20 mins and it got to 47c.
So it was well worth the $68 and 2 1/2 hours to install.
