A 775 pentium 4 aimed cooler wont fit other chips will it?

[ExoMale]

in a q6600 system I’m working on, because it is using stock intel cooler, I broke some of the clips trying to fit it after refreshing the paste and while it’s holding on and did have the system running without issue, obviously it’s not suitable, so need a cooler, but not wanting to spend too much.

Anyways I have seen some coolers for 775 for under £5, but state for pentium 4 and extreme editions of that, I am going to assume whether or not being 775 it will fit, that it wouldn’t be sufficient for my cpu right?


Probably won’t try overclocking as the board isn’t the best for that, but I do need a cooler and trying to see my options before settling on an Akasa K25 LP cooler for £10, one which I had before for same cpu, but then I was trying to overclock and then i build it for resale and while I found it good, I do try not to keep buying the same things.

 

[harvey.l12]

Probably wouldn't be sufficient but it would still work I guess. Would be safer buying one specifically for your CPU and Chipset though.

 

[Armageus]

Pentium 4/Extreme Edition 775 coolers will generally be fine as the majority of P4 chips were at least 84W TDP, with a fair amount being up to 110W (and up to 130W for some of the PentiumD chips). The Q6600 is rated as either a 95W if a SLACR (G0) stepping or 105W for the older stepping, although realistically a Q6600 will still run a lot cooler than almost any P4.

 

[doyll]

What Armageus said, except Q6600 is rated 105w TDP according to their website.
https://ark.intel.com/products/29765/Intel-Core2-Quad-Processor-Q6600-8M-Cache-2_40-GHz-1066-MHz-FSB

Depending on case there are several aftermarket coolers less than £20 that cool better an quieter than stock cooler, but without knowing what the distance from CPU to case or motherboard to case I hesitate to suggest any.

 

[Armageus]

What Armageus said, except Q6600 is rated 105w TDP according to their website.
https://ark.intel.com/products/29765/Intel-Core2-Quad-Processor-Q6600-8M-Cache-2_40-GHz-1066-MHz-FSB

I can't find an official source, but the later G0 stepping was definitely cooler running and according to several sources was a 95W part:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_2_microprocessors#"Kentsfield"_(65_nm)
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_2/Intel-Core 2 Quad Q6600 HH80562PH0568M (BX80562Q6600).html

 

[doyll]

I can't find an official source, but the later G0 stepping was definitely cooler running and according to several sources was a 95W part:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_2_microprocessors#"Kentsfield"_(65_nm)
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_2/Intel-Core 2 Quad Q6600 HH80562PH0568M (BX80562Q6600).html

I think the ark.intel.com link I got my info from is Intel site.

Your CPU World link says:

Maximum power dissipation ? 155.25 Watt

Thermal Design Power ? 95 Watt (Stepping G0)

105 Watt (Stepping B3)​

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So somewhere from 95w to 155.25w.

I would rather error on the side of too much cooling and have CPU run a little cooler / quieter than error on not enough cooling and run hotter / louder.

But to make any cooler recommendations we need some idea of CPU clearance.

 

[mattyfez]

These always used to be recommended for smaller tower coolers that were a decent upgrade over the stock Intel cooler.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/arctic-freezer-7-pro-rev-2-cpu-cooler-hs-035-ar.html

I recently rebuilt my nans pc with a q8400, similar wattage about a hundred, and the stock Intel cooler is barley good enough, but it's only a Web browsing machine.. If you're doing anything more stressful, then a budget tower style cooler is what you want.