New PC Cooling question

[MonkeyWrench4000]

Hey everyone.

A friend of mine broke his CPU when he was messing with somthing inside his 6 month old dell's case. He wanted to just start over instead of me replacing the P4 it had come with, which cost $300. So a new Athlon Xp and Mobo package actually cost the same, i had a spare case for him.

My pay was this dell system with no CPU.

I recently purchased a Celeron-D 2.4ghz processor for the dell so it could be a workstation in the house, no games. The CPU was $70 so i pretty much got a 2.4ghz C-D, 512mb pc2700, fx5200 128mb system for $70.

My question is, should i use the CPU STOCK Heatsink fan that comes with the new cpu, OR, should i stick with dells proprietory cooling duct? My friend had mentioned to me that this particular model, with the duct system always ran boarder line to a critical shut down. Would it be safer to just use the CPU heatsink/fan that came with the Celeron-D?

I could just remove the green duct that attaches to the rear case fan, and then simply have a case deticated fan in the rear, and a cpu heatsink/fan setup, this im sure would cool the best. (or maybe the duct is better, thats why im asking!)

Thanks.

 

[CheesePoofs]

You will probably void the warranty on the proc if you don't use the retail HSF, plus dell's tend to run hot.

 

[Cawchy87]

cooling duct. I couldn't belive that it cools better... but it does.

 

[jamesbond007]

Originally posted by: Cawchy87
cooling duct. I couldn't belive that it cools better... but it does.

As a Dell owner, I second this conclusion. It's MUCH more effecient in terms of keeping the ambient case temps down. It gets all the hot air out of the system in a quiet fashion. The retail HSF might keep the idle/max temps a bit lower, but since there was a faster CPU in there before that ran fine, I highly doubt the Celeron will dissipate anymore heat. Dell cooling ducts are quiet, efficient, and just plain work the best in a Dell case for obvious reasons.

 

[MonkeyWrench4000]

Really? I would have thought having the rear case fan working for the whole system to be better then it being directed with a duct.

I will have to obtain the ducting from the friend who gave me the PC.

Thanks for the info.

 

[kini62]

My Dell runs quiet and cool with the duct. It helps of course that the heat sink is the size of a radiator from a Yugo- they did have radiators?