btx cooling

Original Message

Name: stiguy99
Date: August 29, 2006 at 22:07:50 Pacific
Subject: btx cooling
OS: XP Media center
CPU/Ram: 1 gb
Model/Manufacturer: HP

Comment:

my friend has a btx mobo with a pentium 4 socket size 775. when he plays games his cpu gets real hot and over heats alot. i was wondering could he buy a normal hs and fan and it would fit his mobo?

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Response Number 1

Name: Kailas
Date: August 30, 2006 at 02:59:57 Pacific
Subject: btx cooling

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How do you know how hot it is?
Tell us the actual temps and which P4 he is using.

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Response Number 2

Name: cyberlantz
Date: August 30, 2006 at 09:46:43 Pacific
Subject: btx cooling

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Is the heatsink full of dust?
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Response Number 3

Name: stiguy99
Date: August 30, 2006 at 17:35:16 Pacific
Subject: btx cooling

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No the heatsink is not full of dust, its a p4 2.8 HT, im not sure what the core is. The temps idle at 70c and gaming 100c. He has this mobo http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813121021
Could he just buy this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835186134
or any other hs and fan?

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Response Number 4

Name: cyberlantz
Date: August 31, 2006 at 07:10:16 Pacific
Subject: btx cooling

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I dont know much about btx mobos and so I really dont know if you can use that or not. I know that the point of BTX is to cool everything with like one fan, so replacing that may not work. What size is the fan? Maybe you could get a higher CFM fan for the heatsink.
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Response Number 5

Name: Cobra_R
Date: September 1, 2006 at 13:11:40 Pacific
Subject: btx cooling

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Go out and tell him to get a thermaltake 120mm front case fan and an 80mm thermaltake back case fan. That should cool things. The problem with many intel systems using a prescott core is the stock cooling. Regardless if it's ATX or BTX it's not the type of motherboard itself that makes the diff it's the type of cooling.
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