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

 

[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