- Feb 13, 2011
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So, my grandmother just asked me to work on her computer. It was being sluggish, apparently. It is running a 3.46 GHz Celeron D - Cedar Mill variant.
I'm thinking, "hey, this thing is a die-shrunk Prescott. It should overclock pretty well," as well as "512KB L2 - shouldn't be too far behind a Northwood B in per-clock performanace."
I go into the motherboard temperature monitoring utility, and the thing idles between 40C and 45C, which seems pretty hot. I know Prescotts ran hot, but that even seemed high for a Prescott.
It is using the default Intel cooler that I've modified to use screws instead of push pins, as one of the pins broke. It is mounted with Arctic Silver 5, which I've reapplied no less than five times. Case airflow isn't great, but it isn't horrible either. I can't seem to get it to run cooler.
The heatsink doesn't really seem to heat up, though. Even after running OCCT for five minutes, it still feels fairly cool.
Anyone have any information on this core?
I'm thinking, "hey, this thing is a die-shrunk Prescott. It should overclock pretty well," as well as "512KB L2 - shouldn't be too far behind a Northwood B in per-clock performanace."
I go into the motherboard temperature monitoring utility, and the thing idles between 40C and 45C, which seems pretty hot. I know Prescotts ran hot, but that even seemed high for a Prescott.
It is using the default Intel cooler that I've modified to use screws instead of push pins, as one of the pins broke. It is mounted with Arctic Silver 5, which I've reapplied no less than five times. Case airflow isn't great, but it isn't horrible either. I can't seem to get it to run cooler.
The heatsink doesn't really seem to heat up, though. Even after running OCCT for five minutes, it still feels fairly cool.
Anyone have any information on this core?