best heatsink/fan for o/c P4

[dababus]

what 's your opinion about that. i want to know best p4 heatsink/fan combo. am building a p4 system soon. thanks.

 

[dababus]

anyone like to share their experience. i want to know.

 

[gunf1ghter]

Honestly, the stock HSF is enough for 99% of what you would want to do. If you are going to o/c the cpu to the point that you might melt it down and need maximum cooling then the AVC Sunflower appears to be the top dog for P4 coolers right now.

That's one of the beautiful things about the P4 solution though... unlike my AMD setups I don't need a monster $30 aftermarket cooler to keep the chip at reasonable temperatures.

 

[JellyBaby]

Stock hsf. Easy to mount, very quiet and effective and free if you buy the retail chip.

 

[EricZip]

Amen... I recently built-up a system using a Northwood P4 1.60A. The retail HS/Fan combo
is top notch and an absolute delight to install compared to the "bone crushing" brute force
that was required when I installed my Athlon XP's retail HS/Fan.

Just my .02 cents.


Regards,
EZ

 

[CoDerEd]

yeah the stock HSF is doing a good job,
much much better than their brother on AMD.
and it's quiet too.

peace

 

[SmackdownHotel]

<< Stock hsf. Easy to mount, very quiet and effective and free if you buy the retail chip. >>




Well, technically it's not "free" since you're usually paying extra for the retail chip vs an OEM one.


And yes, it's very effective, even with extreme overclocking.

 

[JellyBaby]

<< Well, technically it's not "free" since you're usually paying extra for the retail chip vs an OEM one. >>

That's true. You pay more for the 3 year warranty and retail packaging, too.

I was happy. About $136 for a retail P4 1.6A is awfully cheap and there wasn't an OEM option anyway.

 

[Jwyatt]

My temps are very high with the stock HS/F. Im running on a msi 845 ultra though. I think the temps arnt show right, but its hard to tell. At default speeds its running under load at ~53c. Oced to 2650mhz its ~60c. Im considering a sunflower, but not sure how much difference it will actually make.

Who sells the sunflower anyways?

 

[gunf1ghter]

Seeing as the P4 will automatically throttle back if the temps get you into trouble I wouldn't upgrade the HSF just based on fear of overheating it.

 

[EricZip]

Hmm... I'm running my 1.60A @ 2400MHz with 1.60V pumping through it and it's running pretty cool
(IMO). I never bothered to check the "stock" temps when running @ the default 1600MHz clock rate,
but I can tell you that MBM 5 reports a consistent 23C for the P4B266-C MB and depending on system
load, reports anywhere from 29C (Idle) - 48C (Prime95) for the Northwood P4 core. I'm pretty happy
with it... my Athlon XP 1700+ system ran much "warmer."

BTW, the case I'm using is an Antec SX1030 with a Sparkle FSP300-60BTVS 300 Watt PSU. Inside, I
have three (3) Sunon 80mm chassis fans (2 mounted in back, 1 mounted in the lower front). Maybe
you could tweak your case's cooling and ventilation a bit?


Regards,
EZ

 

[gunf1ghter]

Well, the bottom line is if he's not experiencing any glitches or throttle back of the cpu speed when running at 100% utilization for extended periods, there is no reason to upgrade the heatsink. Unless you believe in voodoo magic.

 

[Nate420]

The stock Intel HSF is all anyone should need it seems. My 1.6A @ 2.5Ghz runs idle at 29C and max load is only 45C, with the stock HSF. I have the Antec SX830 case, 4 80mm Sunon 55CFM fans(2 in, 2 out) Just a few hours ago I wired a push button switch and relay to control 3 of those 4 fans(and a LED in front of case, lights when fans power up). Right now I have only one 80mm fan running(exhaust) and I'm at 32C as I type this. I was getting sick of all the fan noise at times, hence the switch and relay. Works out quite nice.

 

[johndoe52]

Is there anyone that's oc'ing a p4 and not using the stock cooler?

 

[Downgrade]

Sunflower brought my temp down about 3 deg. I then placed the stock fan over the memory (RDRAM gets pretty hot), brought that temp down about 25 deg.