Intel 815EEA Mobo with Pentium 3 - CPU cooler suggestion

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Intel 815EEA Mobo with Pentium 3 - CPU cooler suggestion

Post by PCGUY » Sun Jan 02, 2005 9:59 am

I have the INTEL 815EEA mobo compatible with Pentium 3 chipset - Can you suggest a quite CPU cooler - The suggest list in SPCR is mostly for PENTIUM 4 mobo

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Post by Rusty075 » Sun Jan 02, 2005 10:34 am

PIII's are socket 370, so just scan the recommended list for those coolers. Pretty much any cooler that is Socket A, and doesn't use the through-motherboard mounting will work for Socket 370.

How fast a PIII are we talking about?

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Post by Ralf Hutter » Sun Jan 02, 2005 1:35 pm

Thermalright SLK800 works really great on S370 PIII's.

A cheaper, and nearly as good alternative is the $5 GC68 or $8 GC69 from SVC.com. There's also some Speeze (Spire?) S370 heatsinks that are nearly identical to the GC68/69.

Generally, any halfway decent S370/SA/S462 heatsink will work great on your Intel board. Any of the S370 heatsinks listed on the SPCR Recommended Heatsinks page will work great for you.

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Post by PCGUY » Sun Jan 02, 2005 3:23 pm

How fast a PIII are we talking about?
Pentium III 733 mhz CPU

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Post by mrzed » Sun Jan 02, 2005 4:02 pm

In that case, go for the GC/Speeze/Spire units Ralf mentioned. Anything more expensive is just overkill. Any biggish aluminium HS with 80mm fan should be able to cool that chip at a slow enough speed to be nearly inaudible.

I was until recently cooling a Xp1700+ overclocked to 1900Mhz with a Spire FalconrockII at about 9 volts. Your PIII probably chews up a little over half that wattage.

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Post by PCGUY » Sun Jan 02, 2005 6:02 pm

Thanks for all the suggestions. Can somebody suggest an appropriate PSU - The config is as follows:

1. 815E INTEL mobo with PENTIUM III 733
2. 1 GB MEMORY
3. CD DRIVE
4. 2 IDE HARD DRIVES
5. NO GRPAHIC CARD

Thanks

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Post by geforce1 » Sun Jan 02, 2005 6:22 pm

A quiet fanned or fanless PSU from a quality manufacturer with 300+ watts should do the trick here. From your system configuration, your hard drives and memory (combined) will use consume more power than your P3-733 Coppermine (27W max).

Heck, a 300 watt PSU in your configuration should give you a decent amount of headroom for expansion. Try to get a PSU that has good efficiency to reduce waste heat and noise. Again, a quality name-brand PSU won't have trouble with this setup.

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