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Maybe you don't need to get another fan, you won't know until you try it.
If you overclock anything though you will generate more heat. The stock cpu cooler will have to run faster to cope because it is a small fan and that aluminium and copper lump does not give much surface area for the heat to spread out to. So the fan must work harder and so noisier. The OCZ is quieter than a stock fan to begin with as it runs slower and dissipates heat better through a much bigger and thinner surface area, which is fed by heat pipes directly up from the cpu to the fins.
Rather than the cpu making a lump of metal sat on top of it get hot first and then cooled down by the fan afterwards. You see the difference? If it were an expensive cooler like some of them, then I would'nt rush in to it either, but its not.
Try your oc first on the stock cooler and if it works and your happy with it, then you don't need to spend anything. If your not I'm just trying to give you an idea of what you could buy for a cooler and more efficient system. There are many other coolers out there, but most are much more expensive and not necessarily more efficient.
Have a look for a review on the overclockers forum?
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