Duron socket A vs Celeron socket 370 CPUs

[Link19]

Well, I know that Intel CPUs generally run cooler than AMD CPUs, but does the same apply for the budget CPUs being the Duron and Celeron? I'm looking into a Duron because it is much easier to underclock because it doesn't have the locked multiplier and I want to run it fanless. Would underclocking a Duron CPU significantly lower the operating temperature of it as opposed to it running at its rated stock speed? I'm looking to run it fanless with only a heatsink. I guess now to finalize my question, would it be almost as easy to keep a Duron cool as it would be to keep a Celeron cool?


Suggestions greatly appreciated

 

[FishTankX]

Pre P4, intel just ran cooler, end of story. The celeron would produce infinitley less heat, *espically* if it's a .13 micron celeron. Those can easily be passivley cooled with a little undervolting/clocking, which is *alot* more than I can say for the duron.

 

[Dennis Travis]

If you are talking about the PIII type Coppermine Celerons, they run a lot cooler than the Duron but the Duron performs better in every test I have ran and seen. I have a Celeron 633 and is very cool in compairson to a Duron 600 I built for a friend for Internet and Word Processing. You should be able with a good HS to get away with no fan.

In sumary, Durons perform better but PIII Celerons run cooler.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Have you checked out the www.SilentPCReview.com forums? Lots of quiet people posting there.

If you are only doing playback, a Tualatin Celeron 1.0A - 1.2 might be ideal since they're much faster than the Cyrix CPUs while running reasonably cool, and you might be able to underlock them from 100 MHz down to 66 MHz. I would guess a 1.2A at 800 MHz would run cooler than a coppermine at 800 MHz, but the low FSB might really hurt performance.

Another choice is a real P3 at 700 - 866 MHz instead of a coppermine celeron at 800 MHz. The extra cache and higher FSB made a P3 733 (with 133 FSB) as fast as a celeron 800 in most benchmarks if I recall correctly.

Finally, if you don't insist on passive, you can get near-silent HSFs from people like zalman (if you can find anyone still selling HSFs for socket 370).

 

[Link19]

Would I have any chance of being able to run a Celeron 800MHz at stock speed and keep it cool enough without a fan? WOuld a Cooler Master socket A and socket 370 heatsink with the fan removed be enough to keep a Celeron 800MHz at stock speed cool?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

In my experience, I've found a Zalman flower-type cooler can cool any S370 processor with only case airflow assistance.

- M4H