Athlon XP HTPC

[SlitheryDee]

I plan on building an HTPC using an old Athlon XP 3000+ (Barton 2000 mhz/400 mhz fsb). Now this isn't the coolest chip I could have used so I'm a little worried about heat and the noise that will be generated by the cooling solution. My first thought is that I might be able to run the chip at a considerable underclock and drop the vcore so that I can passively cool it. Does anyone know if this is possible, or is it likely that the heat dissapation will remain too high or that the chip simply won't be stable at reduced voltages.

Lacking that does anyone have any suggestions for a low noise active cooling solution that would work well in an HTPC case?

 

[SlitheryDee]

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[ottothecow]

underclock it a little (or drop the vcore as much as you can while staying stable) and then throw on a zalman cooler. If your system has some way to automatically control CPU fan speeds (in bios or with something like speedfan), the additional fan shouldnt run very often at all.