Retail PIII 1000MZ/133 Giant Heat Sink

[BillE58]

I gave my PIII 700Mz/100 to my teenage kid and bought a Retail PIII 1000Mz/133 chip from Google Gear for $217 (The price dropped to $197 over the next weekend..Rats!!!). The heat sink for the 1Gz is twice as big as the one that came with the 700 Mz. I have a golden orb I was going to use on the 1GZ because they look so cool, but now I am wondering if it will provide enough cooling when compared with the intel heat sink that came with the chip. Any advice would be apperciated. Also what are the CPU temps you guys are seeing with Intel's 1Gz chips. I have a CUBX MB.

 

[Gunbuster]

It's retail and you dont mention overclocking, use the retail sink

You also wont loose the retail sink that way (needed for warranty)

 

[Jeff H]

BillE58, just watch the clip on that retail HSF. A neighbor of mine ordered a combo from MWave, where the install the cpu, HSF, and memory on the board (P!!!-866, Asus CUSL2-C) and the combo arrived w/ one of the lugs on the socket busted off. MWave was very good about replacing the board via a cross ship. My advice is watch that clip - it's really stiff!

 

[BillE58]

Well, you were right about the Intel heat sink clip. The first problem is the 4 inch long heat sink would not fit on my CUBX motherboard. It probably won't fit on anyone else's either except Intel's. Well I cut a corner section off of it to make it fit. Then POP, there went one of the plastic tabs on the motherboard when I pushed the tighting clip down. Man, what a sucka...design. It's O.K. though, I put my golden orb HS that has a clip on connecter on the socket. The Orb has a second metal clip opening that fits over the longer plastic tab on the edge of the MB socket. The heatsink now rocks up on one side and does not make full contact with the chip. I mounted a bracket that extends over the corner of the heat sink that does not make contact and tapped a 1/4-20 hole in the bracket right over the heatsink edge. I then rigged a spring loaded screw that I can screw in to push down on the corner of the heatsink. This is cool, I can watch the cpu temperature change while tighting the screw and adjust it for the lowest temperture based on the pressure placed on the CPU.

Has anyone else had a problem with breaking on the plastic tab on your MB socket with that Intel sucka...heatsink clip.

 

[shathal]

Yeah, I know the problem (well - it's a problem not for, but WITH motherboard manufacturers). Intel increased the FHS size from the 850 MHz CPU's onwards. Then (again I think?) for the 1GHz CPUs.

Either way, the 1GHz CPU is "massive" - but it still fits into the "keep-out zone" according to spec. The problem now is (ah - we're getting somewhere) is that a heck of a lot of mobo-manufacturers don't stick to the keep-out zone. This causes a problem .

The 1GHz FHS is in itself quite good & reliable, but I wouldn't build on it too much to be a good over-clocking machine. I'm pretty positive it's better than the Golden Orb you have, but I'd be careful about OC-ing the 1GHz too much.

 

[Edski]

I have had my retail 1Ghz on the CUSL-2 without any issues, it runs at 27 degrees. I also had that on my CUBX (that was before my CUSL-2 came in) and it worked just fine with it.