Broken socket a (462) heatsink / fan

[tgbyhn10111]

Hi

I have an AMD xp 2500+ that I want to run at 3200+ can anyone recommend a good cheap heatsink and fan for it?

It did have a globalwin unit on it but in addition to the red,black and yellow wires, there were two white wires going from the fan into the heatsink - does anyone know what these are for? I assume they monitor the temp but I broke them both when cleaning dust out of the unit. Could I still use the heatsink / fan with broken white wires?

Thanks

 

[Xplo]

As long as the fan still spins there will be no need for the two white wires, and I beleive you are correct about them monitoring temps and the alike.

What are your temps currently with the cpu at stock and the globalwin hsf? Most 2500+ do 3200+ speeds with just an FSB increase and thus do not produce much more heat at all, so as long as your temps are okay at the moment there should be no need to buy another cooler!

 

[tgbyhn10111]

Thanks for replying.

I do not know my temps, is there a tool I can downlload that will tell me the temps?

I was given the computer from someone who said it kept crashing. I have stripped it down. The graphics card fan, chipset and cpu fans were caked with masses of dust. ONly the cpu fan was working properly, chipset fan wasn';t spinning and cpu fan was going crazy. The computer did crash. I've got rid of the dust now. It was overclocked to 3200 as you say.

I reset the bios to optimal defaults, do I just need to increase the fsb to get back to 3200?

What can I safely up the core voltage to?

Oh and can I use surgical spirit to clean the thermal paste from the cpu?

Thanks

 

[arfur]

I use speedfan