Athlon cooling advice

[arturchik]

I am planning to buy Athlon XP 1700+. I am looking for advice on CPU cooler as well as the midtower case. I was thinking Enlight midtower case. Should I care about "AMD Approved list" ? Also, good case fan?

Thanx

 

[Beau]

I've never really been a big fan of enlight. What is your case budget? I'd strongly recommend getting an Antec SX series case. At googlegear, you can get an SX1030B (sweet case!) for ~$90. It comes with 2 exhaust case fans, plus places to put a HDD fan for upto 3 HDD's, and a front fan as well.

 

[MoFunk]

Alpha PAL8045 if you mobo will take it. Check here.

 

[CStroman]

<< Alpha PAL8045 if you mobo will take it. Check here. >>



If your mobo won't take it, consider an SK-6, which isn't much bigger than the cpu socket. I haven't seen a motherboard onto which it doesn't fit.