Pentium 3 Socket 370 Heatsink

valve90210 · 28 Sep 2006 at 13:09

I have an old Pentium3 866mhz comp at home which I have been using to purely for playing music on. As it's so old it's a bit noisy but as I don't have it on that often it's not too bad.

Howver, I am going to be moving soon, and would like to be able to use this comp more, mainly for playing music at night when all else is quiet, so really I need to do a bit of work on the comp to make it rather quieter.

The first step I think is to replace the stock CPU cooler with something rather newer and quieter, but I'm having trouble finding anything very much. Does anyone have any recommendations for models that I should look for???

The next step I guess is looking at the graphics card cooler. IIRC it's an AOpen PA256 MXII card which is a Geforce2 MX card, which while not very powerful does the job perfectly. Are there any coolers about for these?

Ideally I'd like to spend as little as possible on these bits, and for them to be as quiet as possible...any thoughts anyone??

Ta muchly in advance for any help anyone can give me.

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Cyber-Mav · 28 Sep 2006 at 13:32

right, a lot of socket 462 coolers will fit that socket 370 cpus.

ones which i have tried to fit and works are: Globalwin FOP38, Stock AMD Barton cooler, Arctic cooling copepr silent 2TC <--this one is the best, very quiet, cools really well and costs only a fiver.

valve90210 · 28 Sep 2006 at 14:06

Thanks for the info, I'll have to have a look about for that Artic cooling one, it sounds interesting....and a bargain....

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valve90210 · 2 Oct 2006 at 09:17

More Help needed

Having looked everywhere for the Arctic Cooling Copper 2, and failing to find one, I have looked at the Arctic Cooling Copper 3, which seemed to be very promising, however, on the Arctic cooling website it says it will fit socket 370 CPU if there is 60mm x 78mm around the socket.

This morning I opened up my case and had a bit of a measure and I'm pretty sure it's not going to fit

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My Motherboard is an AOpen AX34 and there really isn't much room to fit anything, as all around the edge of the current heatsink there are capacitors (or something...my electronics is not my strong point).

Are there any other heatsinks which might fit and be very quiet? It will need to have foot print no larger than the standard intel heatsink??

If not, what about removing the stock fan, and fitting an adapter so I can fit a bigger slower fan, is this doable? I'm not looking to overclock the CPU just keep it happy as quietly as possible.

Any help VERY much appreciated.

Valve