Need advice for Heat sink

[e980238]

Im going to a computer show this weekend and was planning on buying a new heatsink for my pentum III 1GHz. I bought it reatail with the retail HSF but i have heard that they stink and I would be better buying it separate. So my question is what heatsink would you recomend?

[Bob The Great]

Will you be oc'ing it? If not the retail heatsink should work fine.

[e980238]

well now that it is summer time i dont want it running that hot. I know 52C is not bad but i want it back to where it was in the winter time at 40C. no i am not ocing it

[Rhino]

52 is pretty high for a PIII. But then again, PIII's probably come with very small retail sinks anyways. Almost anything name brand should be better. Just bring your old one along, so you can compare the size. Might also want to measure teh distance from your capacitors to your socked as well. Nothign like buying a heatsink that wont fit due to capacitors.

[Emc2]

The whole stock hsf thing is for AMD's. Intel's do ok with the regular hsf, but personally I'd replace the thermal pad with AS-II/III.

Sometimes the fans wear out. Do you have an RPM checker?

[e980238]

yes asus probe has an rpm checker

[Bob The Great]

Yah. Switching to some AS will help a lot. Really though you don't need to worry about the P3. It's a very tuff chip. I've had a P3 600 (slot 1) for about 2 years now. In that time it's come partly dislodged from its socket. One half was in one out. I tried powering the PC up a couple of times, and once I found the prob I started up fine. I've used some weird heatsink it's whole life with the silicon pad. Not a prob. They are tuff. Intel = Tank. Not the fastest, but tuff.

[AuraEdge]

Just a tip
From what Ive seen from North Jersey Comp shows (assuming thats the area you go to, secifically Marketpro and Computershow's and KGP's shows in the Meadowlands, Fairfield, etc.) They normally dont have much as far as good heatsinks go. Last time I went, they were showcasing the SuperOrb as the premier best heatsink with two fans. You won't find any Alphas or anything that. If it retails for more than $20 w/ fan, probably wont find it at a comp show in this area.

I dont know if they've changed, since I havent been there since pre AthlonXP, but Ive been to them since the Pentium II got introduced and it hasnt changed since then.

[FreakyOCR]

Quote:

Originally posted by Bob The Great
They are tuff. Intel = Tank. Not the fastest, but tuff.

If Intel is a tank, then AMD is a helicopter. Faster than Intel.. but if the smallest thing goes wrong, the entire things crashes and burns!

[e980238]

I actually go to the computer shows in orange county new york. I have looked at the alpha 8045 and it seems like it will do the job