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New PC Cooling question

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MonkeyWrench4000

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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.

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