2600+, HR-05 + Arctic Silver Thermal Epoxy?

simonnance · 12 Sep 2007 at 20:14

Was looking at ways of cooling my old Athlon XP 2600+, as the BIOS tells me that the current cooling is hitting 100C+, which cant be healthy!

my motherboard doesnt have enough space for the Zalman CNPS700, which would be a good alternative, so i was wondering whether the epoxy would be strong enough to support the cantilever force an HR-05 and a 80mm fan (total weight a little over 200g), and if that solution would provide ok cooling (dotn want to stick it to the CPU just for it to go BOOM!).

a bit "retro", but what do you think?

Cyber-Mav · 12 Sep 2007 at 21:00

hr05 is a chipset heatsink. not sure what your after here.

helmutcheese · 12 Sep 2007 at 21:16

Its so stong when mixed normally with no normal AS5 in it (you do this to weaken incase you need remove later) it will rip the Chip its on right off Mobo instead of bond breaking.

Minstadave · 12 Sep 2007 at 22:01

No IHS on the 2600+ so you won't want to be just glueing a heatsink to the core, it'll either damage the core or pull the chip out of the mobo.

Try one of these instead:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17776535&highlight=thermaltake

simonnance · 12 Sep 2007 at 22:20

Minstadave said:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17776535&highlight=thermaltake

looking good, thanks! Might be a squeze in my case, but worth a shot.

simonnance · 12 Sep 2007 at 22:56

hmm... my motherboard lacks the holes neccecary for the HSF to be attatched! Back to the drawing board.......

Cyber-Mav · 12 Sep 2007 at 23:06

if u not got mounting holes then the best cooler you can get for socket A which uses the clip around the socket lugs is the gigabyte G-power pro cooler. i used to use a gigabyte g-power BL with my [email protected] with 1.825v and the gigabyte cooler kept the cpu at around 60c max load temp. very good cooler.