Intel 815EEA Mobo with Pentium 3 - CPU cooler suggestion
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Intel 815EEA Mobo with Pentium 3 - CPU cooler suggestion
I have the INTEL 815EEA mobo compatible with Pentium 3 chipset - Can you suggest a quite CPU cooler - The suggest list in SPCR is mostly for PENTIUM 4 mobo
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Thermalright SLK800 works really great on S370 PIII's.
A cheaper, and nearly as good alternative is the $5 GC68 or $8 GC69 from SVC.com. There's also some Speeze (Spire?) S370 heatsinks that are nearly identical to the GC68/69.
Generally, any halfway decent S370/SA/S462 heatsink will work great on your Intel board. Any of the S370 heatsinks listed on the SPCR Recommended Heatsinks page will work great for you.
A cheaper, and nearly as good alternative is the $5 GC68 or $8 GC69 from SVC.com. There's also some Speeze (Spire?) S370 heatsinks that are nearly identical to the GC68/69.
Generally, any halfway decent S370/SA/S462 heatsink will work great on your Intel board. Any of the S370 heatsinks listed on the SPCR Recommended Heatsinks page will work great for you.
In that case, go for the GC/Speeze/Spire units Ralf mentioned. Anything more expensive is just overkill. Any biggish aluminium HS with 80mm fan should be able to cool that chip at a slow enough speed to be nearly inaudible.
I was until recently cooling a Xp1700+ overclocked to 1900Mhz with a Spire FalconrockII at about 9 volts. Your PIII probably chews up a little over half that wattage.
I was until recently cooling a Xp1700+ overclocked to 1900Mhz with a Spire FalconrockII at about 9 volts. Your PIII probably chews up a little over half that wattage.
A quiet fanned or fanless PSU from a quality manufacturer with 300+ watts should do the trick here. From your system configuration, your hard drives and memory (combined) will use consume more power than your P3-733 Coppermine (27W max).
Heck, a 300 watt PSU in your configuration should give you a decent amount of headroom for expansion. Try to get a PSU that has good efficiency to reduce waste heat and noise. Again, a quality name-brand PSU won't have trouble with this setup.
Heck, a 300 watt PSU in your configuration should give you a decent amount of headroom for expansion. Try to get a PSU that has good efficiency to reduce waste heat and noise. Again, a quality name-brand PSU won't have trouble with this setup.