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