I just purchased but have not yet received an Athlon XP 3200+ and am wondering the best way to cool it for around $25 or so. The sad little fan/heatsink I have now barely keeps my 1ghz Athlon at 55 C under load, but I'm also getting a new case for Christmas, so the cooling problems of my case are also going to be solved.

I am considering using a 60 to 80mm fan adapter to attach a good, quite case fan to the cpu's heatsink, but I don't know how to determine whether or not the case fan will be able to cool the processor. It's just an idea; a regular heatsink/60mm fan is fine with me if it will keep the thing at a reasonable temp. It would also be nice if the fan was UV reactive, but it's not really a necessity.

I don't intend on overclocking, but you never know. I just want it to be cool and quite at 2.2ghz.

Thanks.

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I have an athlon XP 3200+ I have a dynatron CPU cooler (7$)all copper with "microfin" technology. I ditched the fan and got a 60mm->80mm($1.50) adapter and put a 2500RPM cooler master fan on ($2.50). Load I never get above 56C - well within range I've seen 3200+'s operate fine in the 65-70C range.