Ivy Bridge cooler on a Lynnfield CPU?

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I replaced my motherboard and CPU, and kept my Corsair liquid cooler; now I have a i5-750 that I want to sell, and a cooler from the 3570K. The old cooler from the i5-750 I sold a long time ago.

Will the Intel cooler from an i5-3750K fit or be adequate for a Lynnfield i5-750? If it would, I'd sell it together.
As I recall, all the coolers from about the C2Q era and up (with a very few exceptions) were the same cooler. Looking at the Intel Ark pages for the i5-3570K and the Ark page for the i5-750 shows that the 750 is a 95w TDP and the 3570K is 77w TDP.

In short, if it's the copper core w/ Al fins, it should have no problem, but if it's the little 1" aluminum jobber, then I wouldn't hold my breath.
There should be sufficient headroom in the heatsink design for it to be fine, but yes, the TDP's are different by a substantial amount, so no, not something I'd sell without disclosing that fact.
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