My components are in my sig, minus the fact that I have an ANTEC 300 case. Plenty of airflow considering I don't OC anything it should be fine. Yet my 860 sits at roughly 52 - 55 C idle. That seems a bit too high. I have properly applied AS5 and the stock intel HSF at least twice and I still seem to get the same temperatures, whether it be in the ANTEC case or an older LianLI PCV1000 i used to have. Wondering if there are really decent, and fairly cheap, quiet solutions to keep things a little cooler.
As it seems a lot of people are leaning towards the H212 HSF? I'd like around 30 - 40 USD. I feel like there is something funky with my stock cooler.