Duron heat question

[jerris79]

Just curious. Do Duron's pump out considerable heat? Would I need a large heatsink for a duron?

 

[paralazarguer]

click here. It's a link to processor heat output measured in watts. You won't need a super big heatsink, no.

 

[PhoenixOfWater]

All AMD chip have a lot of heat to them...but the Durons are not as hot as the TBs, but i would get a large HSF anyways...

 

[jerris79]

How about power, to they suck up as much power as TB/XP?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

A quality 300w PSU is plenty for even a 1.3 Morgan core, as to the HS/F I use the GC68 it's mirror polished and with ASII (haven't bothered switching to ASIII as I see no need and I already have the ASII 😉 ) and even with my 1ghzMorgan@133x9=1.2ghz 1.85v it never gets over 44c under heavy load and sits @40-41c crunching SETI. It's less than 10$ shipped and comes just like in the pic, no need to add a fan or grill in the options boxes. BTW the SVC 80mm fan it ships with is no louder than my case fans so it's a very quite solution compared to my old Delta 38cfm.

 

[rocketbubba]

I had a Duron 600 and then a Duron/Morgan 1000. They both ran cool compared to my new T-Brid 1.4. I've used an average Taisol hsf with all three and never had a problem. When I installed the T-Bird, case cooling and vcore also factored in. In any case, you should have no heat or power problems with a Duron.

 

[BD231]

Durons run pretty damn hot for a value processor, so hot that I avoid them, they just aren't worth it if you ask me.

 

[XFreebie]

if ru worried about temperature or wasting electricity, just use any cpu idle program like VCool and it'll keep ur cpu cool while ur doing things non-intensive liek checking e-mail. that way ur only wasting the juice when ur sniping ppl in counsterstrike