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Replacing Slot-1 HS with HSF?

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Magicthyse

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I'm trying to upgrade a PII 350 server. It's a Dell Poweredge 2300 if it helps any...

First of all, could you take a look at this Pic.

Where the PII CPU + blue heatsink is, I'm thinking about replacing with a PIII 500 plus a HSF (Cooler Master thing).

The Dell features quite a blast of air going through the unit, straight over the heatsink at the moment. What would happen to the cooling when the HSF tries to blow air onto the heatsink while being blasted by this airflow? Would it do weird things to the HSF's airflow? Hope you can see my point of query...

 
it was my understanding that the poweredge 2300s could only support up to 2xP2-450s? Please by all means correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that for the 2300s, you could not select the multiplier (it did so automatically) and you could only set the FSB via jumper?

anyway if you add an HSF versus an HS, you should be fine....the only thing you really have to think about is the power connector as there are none on the board so make sure you have a 4-pin one...

EDIT: I am speaking out of specifications - of course we all know that performance of some products may exceed their designed and tested specs, such as the famous P2B-F motherboards....anyway I'm dumb and babbling, LMK if you get that P3-500 running (I wonder if it can handle the 500e voltage)....
 
The BIOS upgrades support anything up to a Slot 1 PIII 800, but requires the use of a different back plate. PIII 600 and under shouldn't be a problem apparently.

I have the 4-pin convertors, thanks to two Dragon Orb 3's I have as paperweights... 😀
 
As far as the heatsink goes, how about the Alpha 7125 (for SECC) or 3125 (for SECC II)? They take dual 60mm fans of your choice, providing reduncancy and top-notch cooling. And they blow perpendicular to your case's airflow path, so they won't be affected by the "crosswind" in the case.
 
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