hello.
Ok, i'm going to build a rig around a spare Duron 850, and a spare GF2 MX (original flavor) I have lying around, with the notion of upgrading maybe a year down the road. (the only games i'll probably be playing is WarIII when that comes out, so I don't need all that processing power for a FPS).
Now my question is: I have a spare FOP 38 with a delta on it. I know that hs/f is good since i took it off my t-bird 850 o/c to around 950. However, that sucker is kind of loud. Don't really want to drop big bucks though so I checked out the scene and found this.
SVC GC21
It's rated for an athlon xp 1800+, I was wondering if that would perform better than the fop. More importantly would that $5 heatsink make a better cooler (overclock) than the fop. I've already unlocked the duron with conductive pen, and hoping to at *least* run it at 133 fsb.
Also, would that same heatsink cool that athlon t-bird I mention earlier (i gave the t-bird to my little bro and he couldn't stand the fop). If (big if) I decide to upgrade his rig first, I'm going to take that t-bird (I know I can get it to a 1 ghz with a proper mobo) out and put it in my rig.
Next question:
I have a tube of arctic silver 1 (original flavor) lying around. Should I break down and buy a tube of alumina or AS III. Is it that much better? that site (linked above) sells alumina for about $3 dollars, ASII for $4, and ASIII $6.
Next question:
Ram heat spreaders? necessary?
Ok, i'm going to build a rig around a spare Duron 850, and a spare GF2 MX (original flavor) I have lying around, with the notion of upgrading maybe a year down the road. (the only games i'll probably be playing is WarIII when that comes out, so I don't need all that processing power for a FPS).
Now my question is: I have a spare FOP 38 with a delta on it. I know that hs/f is good since i took it off my t-bird 850 o/c to around 950. However, that sucker is kind of loud. Don't really want to drop big bucks though so I checked out the scene and found this.
SVC GC21
It's rated for an athlon xp 1800+, I was wondering if that would perform better than the fop. More importantly would that $5 heatsink make a better cooler (overclock) than the fop. I've already unlocked the duron with conductive pen, and hoping to at *least* run it at 133 fsb.
Also, would that same heatsink cool that athlon t-bird I mention earlier (i gave the t-bird to my little bro and he couldn't stand the fop). If (big if) I decide to upgrade his rig first, I'm going to take that t-bird (I know I can get it to a 1 ghz with a proper mobo) out and put it in my rig.
Next question:
I have a tube of arctic silver 1 (original flavor) lying around. Should I break down and buy a tube of alumina or AS III. Is it that much better? that site (linked above) sells alumina for about $3 dollars, ASII for $4, and ASIII $6.
Next question:
Ram heat spreaders? necessary?
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