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Written by John M
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If you are into overclocking, you are going to need something a little bit better than the Intel retail heatsink, but that usually costs more than what you probably want to spend. Or, we should say "costed", because Arctic Cooling has on sale a couple of heatsinks that are rather cheap and could just do the job.
 At only 15$, the price of the Alpine 7 is hard to beat, and it is a good replacement of the Intel "in-box", but the one that really shines is the Freezer 7 Pro. It costs only ten bucks more, and it's difficult to find a heatsink that provides better performance, even if you go all the way up to the high end (Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme). And for the price of one of those, you get two Freezer 7 Pros.
Looking at the specifications, we find that 90 watts are all the Alpine
7 is good for, while the Freezer 7 Pro can cope with as much as 130
watts. That basically leaves the Phenom X4 out of the question (as well
as some older Core 2 Quads). But rest assured, if you don't plan on some extreme 4 GHz overclock, it's more than enough for a Q6600. After a quick test, I was getting lower temperatures at 3.33 GHz than with the stock heatsink at default speed!
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