Is there a good fanless cooler for Athlon XP 3200+ ?

Don`t bother. At those temps your CPU hasn`t got a long life anyhow.


"Daniel" wrote in message
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Hi,
I noticed there is a totally fanless cooler available from Thermaltake,
but
it's only for athlon 64, or P4 - the thermaltake fanless 103 cooler.

Does anyone know if there is ANY fanless cooler available for just Athlon
XP
processors? I have a 3200+, and at the moment have an all copper
Coolermaster Jet+ (the silver one that looks like a jet engine), which is
kinda annoyingly noisy, because I have to have it on full speed, otherwise
the processor temp goes up quite a lot. On full speed, it keeps it between
60-70 degrees C - so I'd be looking to keep it at this level, or lower.

Thanks,
Daniel

That depends on what the case temperature is, if
it is 50C then 60-70 is normal :-)

I couple of times I have had abnormally high
temps on systems I have built. However I re-did
the thermal compound and it fixed the problem.
Possibly I used too much, not really sure why.

I run a Thermaltake Silent Boost which keeps an
XP 3200+ around 11-12 above case temp when idle
(and the fan is slowed to 2200rpm by the MB). It
is the quietest cooler I have tried so far that
actually performs reasonably well.

I would also recommend the Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu,
although I shy away from coolers that don't
have a standard size replacable fan (they don't
last long when used 24x7).


"Lester Piglet" wrote in message
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Something seriously wrong with your system if it's running those temps!

"Venom" wrote in message
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Don`t bother. At those temps your CPU hasn`t got a long life anyhow.


"Daniel" wrote in message
...
Hi,
I noticed there is a totally fanless cooler available from Thermaltake,
but
it's only for athlon 64, or P4 - the thermaltake fanless 103 cooler.

Does anyone know if there is ANY fanless cooler available for just
Athlon
XP
processors? I have a 3200+, and at the moment have an all copper
Coolermaster Jet+ (the silver one that looks like a jet engine), which
is
kinda annoyingly noisy, because I have to have it on full speed,
otherwise
the processor temp goes up quite a lot. On full speed, it keeps it
between
60-70 degrees C - so I'd be looking to keep it at this level, or lower.

Thanks,
Daniel

Lester Piglet wrote:
Something seriously wrong with your system if it's running those
temps!

No, not at all. It depends a lot on your motherboard. My K7D reads one of my
CPUs at mid 60's under load, whereas my SL75DRV5 reads the exact same CPU,
exact same cooler, etc at aroudn 35 deg C under load. I've seen variation of
+/- 10 deg C IIRC (I mentioned it here a while ago, google it if you're
interested) between identical boards (though I don't remember if I checked
the BIOS revision or not). Absolute temperature values mean nothing. If it's
stable and not overvolted by more than about 10%, then whatever temperature
it's running at is fine.

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I was thinking with a standard heatsink and fan it would overheat, hence
something wrong.
"Michael Brown" wrote in message
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Lester Piglet wrote:
Something seriously wrong with your system if it's running those
temps!

No, not at all. It depends a lot on your motherboard. My K7D reads one of
my CPUs at mid 60's under load, whereas my SL75DRV5 reads the exact same
CPU, exact same cooler, etc at aroudn 35 deg C under load. I've seen
variation of +/- 10 deg C IIRC (I mentioned it here a while ago, google it
if you're interested) between identical boards (though I don't remember if
I checked the BIOS revision or not). Absolute temperature values mean
nothing. If it's stable and not overvolted by more than about 10%, then
whatever temperature it's running at is fine.

[...]

--
Michael Brown
www.emboss.co.nz : OOS/RSI software and more
Add michael@ to emboss.co.nz ---+--- My inbox is always open

try thermal take pipe 101
copper helps drop temps
my temps went down ca 10 degrees C.
also case makes huge difference
got tsunami dream dropped another 8 degrees