In October 25th's article "Heatsink Roundup: 4 Socket A Heavyweights" The SLK800 is considered a socket 370 HS, as does the recommended section. My concern? The Thermalright website does not consider this a socket 370 HS.
I hope it is, cause I am looking for a beast of a HS so I can run a PIII 1.2GHz with low speed fan, probably the Vantec Stealth as it has the highest airflow that I have seen for a low speed fan.
Any help is appreciated. I'm a newbie, can you tell? Thanks. Aris
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The clip strength for Socket370 and SocketA coolers does differ though. I posted a similar question at Anandtech and someone replied
I think you'll be okay though.Not all coolers will work with both sockets. This is mainly true for older designs. The clip needed for AMD socket A was far stronger than what Socket370 designs used, so it took awhile to make them work on both types. Also some of the more exotic clip designs wouldn't work on both, like the original orb design where you twisted the heatsink on, which obviously crushed an Athlon core.
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I was pretty convinced after I saw the specs for your quiet server. Where things might get interesting is my MB wont accept a tualatin processor, so I would need a powerleap converter under the cpu before installation. I hope powerleaps custom clip would be able to hold a cooler this heavy.
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Asus Probe , in it's infinite wisdom, is telling me my CPU temp is 12C/57F, and had I not been reading on this forum I would never have noticed that this temp is lower than my MB, which makes no sense at all. Is is at least consistently low reading?
The mobo also doesn't like fan speeds below 2200 rpm ( I have one running around 2400) so I had to turn off monitoring that fan speed cause it kept beeping.
The other good thing about this site is I learned about the problems with the Papst fans. I didn't care for the cheap sleeve bearing anyway.
http://shopping.netledger.com/app/site/ ... asCxKsBQBA
Asus Probe , in it's infinite wisdom, is telling me my CPU temp is 12C/57F, and had I not been reading on this forum I would never have noticed that this temp is lower than my MB, which makes no sense at all. Is is at least consistently low reading?
The mobo also doesn't like fan speeds below 2200 rpm ( I have one running around 2400) so I had to turn off monitoring that fan speed cause it kept beeping.
The other good thing about this site is I learned about the problems with the Papst fans. I didn't care for the cheap sleeve bearing anyway.