Originally posted by: KrisC
I have a mobile athlon 2400 that I wanna try to run/play with in an Nforce2 board. An Asus A7n8x-e to be specific... Will I fry anything if I put this in there? I have a fairly large heatsink so I am gonna try to overclock it to no end... (if the MB can run the chip to begin with.)
My own XP-M 2400 is in a DFI NF-II LanParty Infinity MB, which is happy with it. My own A7N8X is not an "E" or a Deluxe, but rather an "-X" budget version. I have an XP 3000 in that one, running at XP 3200 speed. The XP-M runs quite cool at the same speed, when I compare them. I have had the same Vantec TMD AeroFlow HSF's on both; Ausus' temp probe and its BIOS' health stats both showed the CPU running pretty hot, but I can't confirm that.
I can touch the bases of both heat sinks with my fingers. The one on the Asus MB is barely luke warm to the touch when the CPU temp is reported to be 63 Celcius. I think that the MB probe exaggerates. The DFI temp probe may be slightly under-reporting, but the base of that HSF (on the OC'd XP-M) has never even felt warm at all no matter what I have had the system doing.
The DFI-based PC has a Gigabyte HSF on it now, the Neon7 model, and if anything, the base now feels still cooler to the touch, almost ambient, in fact. I really like the particular bright blue color of the Gigabyte HSFs' fans. I have a Neon8 on hand now, to use on an A64 build that is impending.
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