I'm open to cutting and hacking within reasonable limits, but don't want anything sticking out, so external fans are out of the question, sorry. I want to keep it on my desk, and don't want ugly. Can I buy tin snips locally to "investigate" the case and open things up a bit? Where would i find a pai...

I got a Biostar iDEQ 200N recently. It came with a HSF, and the heatsink is a nice thin-finned jobby with a copper core and aluminum fins. The problem is that since the case and the HSF are so small, it uses two 60mm fans, one blowing into the heatsink and one blowing out the back, taking the air fr...

Rusty075 wrote:Primarily, but it does lose a couple of things in the re-porting: Such as SMP support (not an issue since there are no SMP socket 478 mobo's) and 2 of the DDR channels are gone.

Could you elaborate? Does the XeonMP have a 256-bit FSB?

I do believe Neil is right - that the figure is the highest the Athlon64 family is projected to dissipate. I suppose AMD want to prevent another embarassing situation like the early Athlon where OEM power supplies and motherboard power circuitry couldn't handle higher-grade chips, while the motherbo...

Blue... white. Blue... white.

I've heard they'll be running pretty cool, esp with the SOI etc.

I don't know how accurate temp measurings are, but:

http://www.sandpile.org/impl/k7.htm
http://www.sandpile.org/impl/p4.htm

Yep, Intel's 3Ghz chips put out 101W while the 3200+ does 76.8W.
Basically anything from 2.4Ghz onwards, the Intel will pump out more heat.

I have the same Enermax fans and i positively hate them. I just went to an L1A on my CPU and it is so much quieter at the same airflow level.

Isn't the Pentium M a µFCPGA design? ie it isn't socket-based...?

The Alpha PEP66 was a different design, and so is the Coolermaster Aero 7. I don't think they perform a lot better than the traditional style...

All that performance for nothing?

the dell optiplex small form factor pc is REALLY quiet...i used one of these at a college store, and its the real deal. the system i saw (2.53 GHz P4, 512MB DDR) was not that hot either. i was drooling to open the system right there in the middle of the store to figure out its cooling design, i hel...

MortySnerd wrote:Right now, Northwood P4's offer one of the best performance to heat ratios out there, so that is pretty good.

Uhh, no. This is disinformation. The AthlonXPs are much better than the P4s wrt heat dissipation.

Hello Mark: Is the stock fan thermally controlled? If so, and it just runs too fast under a light load, you could try moving the thermistor! Or, you could stick a resistor in series on the positive feed to slow it down... Hi Neil. As you can see in the pic i posted, the fan only has the 2-pin conne...

Yes i did try it with the polarity reversed. The fan didn't spin up at all, while the rest of the system spun up and then spun down. Now i'm at wits' end - it doesn't even work with another fan that draws 0.23A!!! How the fuck were they able to make a goddamn fan propreitary? :mad: A photo of the co...

Well, the damn thing works fine with the stock fan, except that the stock fan is LOUD. We're talking Beta SL loud. I could use it on my heatsink if i wanted to, its that powerful. And i don't have a midrange fan that draws more current than the L1A. Can the PSU have current-sensing so that it shuts ...

Radeonman, i noticed your CPU - mine's running at 7x210 at 1.4v BIOS (around 1.45v in MBM) - you could try bumping the clock a little.

Just a tip

"FF Code Flash" means that the whole board apparently powers up, then shuts back down immediately, only having power long enough to "flash" the FF code on the diagnostic LED panel. I have to replug PSU from mains to get any activity. I have also reset the CMOS a few times. Should i try to remove the...

1GB PC3200 here. Muwaahhaha now you must all praise me because my wallet is bigger than yours!!

I did test the ThermoChill with a single fan underload, it ran hotter by 0.1°C.

Well, if the fan header was reversed, would the PSU fan still spin up? The older fan was also 2-pin, so rpm-monitoring is out of the picture. I made sure the fan was plugged in the right way because i noticed i had to bend the tab a little before plugging it in and i also had to cut away the little ...

Well, i took the whole system out because my case is really small and i had the whole system on a wooden coffee table the entire time.

I was working on a carpeted surface though, so i hope that didn't kill it

uh-oh.... i don't have another PSU. Now i'm scared.

gonna put the old fan back.

So i was changing my PSU fan according to the directions i've read around the web and this thread . However, affter changing the fan in my Directron Lite-on 300W to an L1A, something's gone wrong... horribly wrong. First i tried connecting the motherboard to the PSU so i could see if its becoming ho...

ok i'm gonna switch my PC off and just go for it after a normal 8hrs of sleep (insomnia++)

I've contributed and looked at many threads about changing out the fan in the PSU both here and Ars, and the time has come to do mine. Its a pretty loud Liteon server 300W (the one from directron) and i want to quiet it down because its the loudest thing in my case. So what should i do? I left the m...

In the benches i've seen, a 2Ghz Northwood Celeron overclocked to 3Ghz lost to an AthlonXP 1700+ in many many tests, only winning a couple. That told me all i needed to know.

I can't seem to find much information on the Athlon64. How do you know it will run cooler? Is the core voltage going to be lower than 1.5V or something? I don't really mind too much for speed as my current 1.33GHz is fast enough for my needs (for now). How much cooler would a P4 be compared to the ...