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socket 478 pentium 4 heat output issue

Gavin

Gavin

Gavin

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My gf uses a packard bell pc(i know!) which has served her well for what she wants but unfortunately the cpu has gone up the spout. I bought a pentium 4 2.8 celeron D from fleabay to tide her over but it runs to hot for my likeing. There was a 2.8 HT cpu in there i think.

Soooooooo

Obviously im looking to get a second cpu now that doesnt give out loads of heat.

So should i be getting a 2.8 ghz 533mhz prescott or a 2.8 ghz 800mhz or a 2.8 ghz 800 mhz HT enabled.

Basically out of the 478 cpus which one should i be looking for?

Or is there any others ive missed out........... I dont mind going down to a 2.6 or a 2.4 if its really going to help.

I might just be getting paranoid as its run for years with the generic h/s/f as is, and obviously i dont want to spend loads of money on it...

Cheers Guys
 
Try and get hold of a P4C which runs at 800mhz fsb, has HT, 512k L2 cache and is based on the cooler Northwood core.

They start at 2.4ghz and end up at 3.4ghz. Any will do.

You should be able to get a cheap one from the 'bay' now.

I picked up a 2.4ghz P4C for £22 a month ago, so they can be had dirt cheap.

Don't bother with anything Prescott based like the 533fsb Celeron's or the 1mb L2 cache P4's. They're hot and power hungry.
 
Gavin:

Before you buy anything check out what CPU's the motherboard/BIOS will support.

I suggest this because I had a PD imedia (at one time), which came with a P4 2.53GHz N/wood (533Mhz), but the actual motherboard was based upon a very basic one from Gigabyte, which didn't allow for any real upgrade of CPU.

You can find out what cpu the mobo supports be going to the PD website onto the Support forum, and putting the Serial number that she has for her machine into the place provided. :)
 
thanks guys..it had a 2.8 800fsb HT one in originally so i guess a 2.6 one would be ideal...Were they made???
 
ill probably have to pick one up from the second hand high street store so what do i need just the part numbers? which would be..........??
 
Well the pc is still merrily chugging away

Im using a 2.8 533 i got cheap off the forums. I dont have any temp monitoring software installed though as i dont want to start getting worried :D

I have how ever just secured a 3ghz HT Northwood.Cost £15 so i havnt really lost a lot in a cheap upgrade.(it would be good if i could find a way to use this so i could encode a few vids overnight when i do stay there)

My main worry now is the heat, can anyone recommend any decent coolers that are still available and dont take up a load of space on the motherboard as its quite cramped around the cpu area, if the fitting lifts the h/s/f above the caps on the board then that would be fine, but in my wisdom i failed to remember that in most cases the h/s/f is gonna cost me more than the cpu so it might of just been a red herring!"

Cheers
 
Northwoods can easily run 20 degrees cooler than Prescotts with the same cooling. With the intel 'stock' heatsink, and nothing special, a Northy normally tops out around 60-65 degrees, while a Prescott can easily hit 80+.

so going from a 2.8 Prescott, to a 3.0 Northwood should give temperature drops, even using a stock intel OEM heatsink.
 
So can anyone recommend a h/s/f?

i was looking at these on fleabay
1. 170137102831
2. 160143132282

Or the Akasa AK-687 or the 675?
 
Look for a Thermalright product using 120mm fans or Thermaltake Big Typhoon etc.. Akasa are not much better than stock and not much if any quieter.
 
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