I got my Abit KT7. Do you think the intel heat sink will cool enough?

[jsbush]

I got my Abit KT7 motherboard today. I bent the clip on the intel heatsink that came with my Celeron 566, so that it would fit the duron 600 without crushing it. Do you think that I could use it for now! (at 600mhz) and it will be safe so it doesn't over heat? I have no thermal paste or anything! Would it be safe to just go into the bois and underclock it to say 400? I just can't wait for my Alpha Pal to come in hehe.


I made sure that the heat sink was flat on the core buy putting it up to a neon light.

What I could also do Is leave it out of the case just on the removable tray and Get a 120volt fan blowing right on the heat sink. You think that would be enough?

 

[Viperoni]

Minimum you can do is 500.
I'd recommend that until you get the Pal.
does the heatsink have the thermal pad on the bottom?
I beleive they should...

 

[jsbush]

Yeah it had a thermal pad on it but I wiped it off when I sold my celeron cus it was just like a little scare of paste.

I took my chances and turned it on anyways and WOW! This thing is F**king fast. I underclocked it to 500 just so it wouldn't overheat and I put a 80mm fan right over the cpu!

I can't wait till I get my pal and overclock it to 1000 WOW!!

 

[jsbush]

This thing stays at 34C wow!