What P4 and heatsink questions

[VxD]

I'm going to be building a HT P4 box as that appears to suit my needs more than any other processor would. My question is, which one?

I'm familiar with the 2.4C (built one before). With stock fan\heatsink, that thing just wanted to run a 3.2Ghz. Is there any other P4 out there worth considering that will give me the performance of an OC'd 2.4C to 3.2? Note, I do NOT want to go to any extreames to overclock. I'm not about to watercool or put some huge fan on there. I'm looking for the best P4 that overclocks easily.

Also, the thing I really liked about that 2.4 is how cool it ran. I'm a big fan of quiet systems and the retail cooling was extreamly quiet. Any reason to buy a third party fan\heatsink?

Thanks for your recommendations
VxD

 

[charloscarlies]

Originally posted by: VxD
I'm going to be building a HT P4 box as that appears to suit my needs more than any other processor would. My question is, which one?

I'm familiar with the 2.4C (built one before). With stock fan\heatsink, that thing just wanted to run a 3.2Ghz. Is there any other P4 out there worth considering that will give me the performance of an OC'd 2.4C to 3.2? Note, I do NOT want to go to any extreames to overclock. I'm not about to watercool or put some huge fan on there. I'm looking for the best P4 that overclocks easily.

Also, the thing I really liked about that 2.4 is how cool it ran. I'm a big fan of quiet systems and the retail cooling was extreamly quiet. Any reason to buy a third party fan\heatsink?

Thanks for your recommendations
VxD

I could be wrong, but don't some of the 2.4 and 2.8C's come with the M0 stepping? Isn't the M0 stepping the same as the EE chips? I could be wrong, but I'm sure somebody knows the answer.

 

[o1die]

Well, if your system is for gaming, the new 2.4a prescott (without hyperthreading) seems to overclock like a champ. Fry's had them with a free ecs 848p ($150 for both), and the person that posted was already running it at 3.0 (167 fsb). With better cooling, maybe 3.6 is a possibility. I was skeptical, until I read some more posts and one review at hardoc. The link is posted at thg in the cpu section.