Name: 02coled Date: August 23, 2006 at 07:28:39 Pacific Subject: Heatsink for 3ghz Prescott OS: Windows XP Pro SP2 CPU/Ram: Pentium 4 3.2ghz, 1gb Cru Model/Manufacturer: ME no more left of the de
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Hello All iv got my secound rig all ready which has a Pentium 4 3ghz Prescott core which is a socket 478 and im going to overclock hopefully upto and past 4ghz and i want to air cool it. So here comes the question which heatsink and fan to use??. Iv looked around and im quessing its going to be COPPER and Use Heatpipe technology BUT WHICH MAKE AND MODEL from the vast selection. So any personal recomendations or review you have read would be very welcome or any other methods of cooling that are of the same price range of an air cooling system. thanks guys and girls Damian
Pentium4 3.20ghz@ 3.5ghz 1Gb Crucial XMS PC3200CL2 1 X 80GB HDD OS 1X 40GB HDD STORAGE NVDIA GeForce4 MX4000 Pro ASUS P4-U800-X 600w PSU 12v 1-14amp 2-15amp WinXp
hello erm didnt come with one CPU was my downgrade from like last yr frm this pc. And iv never used a stock Intel heatsink anyhow. Will one Cool the Prescott @ 4ghz+ thanks Damian Cole
Pentium4 3.20ghz@ 3.5ghz 1Gb Crucial XMS PC3200CL2 1 X 80GB HDD OS 1X 40GB HDD STORAGE NVDIA GeForce4 MX4000 Pro ASUS P4-U800-X 600w PSU 12v 1-14amp 2-15amp WinXp
Thermalright XP120 + 120mm fan Thermaltake CL-P0024 + 92mm fan
I'm currently using the thermaltake cl-p0024 and a 92mm vantec stealth @ 1700RPM fan. Idle temperature is 50C full load is 63C with ambient room temperature of 72F... If the ambient room temperature is at 90F (heatwave weeks), then idle will be 61C and full load 75C but the CPU doesn't throttle and remain stable. If I use my old 92mm 4000RPM with the heatsink, then full load temperature drop from 63C to 54C but then the noise level is out of control. I'd like to have my PC to be super quiet but if you're not the ones be disturbed by fan noise, then the thermalright XP120 + vantec tornado 120mm fan will be the best out there. I'd seen a guy in ocforms had his P4 631 o/c to 4.9ghz air cooling with Asus P5WD2 board. He said his full load temperature stays below 49C with a 100+ cfm 120mm fan with XP120.
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Asus P5P800-SE PAT P4 506 @ 4009Mhz 1.3625v Thermaltake CLP0024 w/ 1700RPM 92MM + AS5 2GB OCZ 2-3-2-5 DDR400 120GB/300GB 7200RPM HD MSI 6600GT AGP 565/1100 VF700 ALCU AS5
I myself own a generic all aluminium, 3 heat-pipes, cooler. Works well with my adjustable 80mm Thermaltake fan on it, I leave it around 3,000rpm, which is 10:00 on the speed dial. It keeps my OC'ed 3.6Ghz Prescott at exceptional temperatures. Right now its idling at 49C (ambient room temperature 78F), when its at full load, crunching numbers in a hyperthreading applications it gets and stops at 65C. With the Prescott "AKA Hotpaoato" the boarderline safe-zone is 69C~75C without throttling.
Prescotts really shine at high Ghz speeds, they were designed to handle 4GHz frequencies, but intel scraped the plans.
Heat-Pipe Heatsinks are great, but one of there downfalls (as with H20 cooling) is the fact that most of them do not cool the circuitry around the socket, such as the mosfets (voltage regulators) and capacitors. It is very important (epseacialy if your overclocking) to keep the mosftes cool, being as your pumping more voltage through them. With my setup, I had to install a small 40mm fan right above them to stabilize my overclock on my Abit board, because the CPU's fan points the the back of the case serving as an exhaust fan.
So My suggestion is to find an all copper heat-sink with the fan's position facing downwards towards the Cpu die, in order to cool the surrounding circuits.
For example, here is a six Heat-Pipe cooler that will provide a nice breeze for the surrounding circuits:
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