Good place to buy CPU coolers?
Ernie Bin
Ollie wrote:
>
> Anyone know where I can find good sized CPU coolers (ones that I can
> use for overclocking) in Vancouver? Wholesale or retail.
Ollie
Killuminati
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Lyle Gardiner
Willington. It's on the north side of the street, sorry don't remember the
name or exact address, but they have coolers for cpus, hard drives, and
cd-roms. Check it out.
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Jim Pook
I think I know the store Lyle is talking about:
AMK Services
4631 East Hastings
Burnaby, BC
604-299-5221
Grab the September, 2000 issue of the Computer paper and check page 117 for
their ad,
Another place to check is:
Frontier Computer
6B - 4300 Kingsway
Burnaby, BC
604-434-3800
Frontier is selling Golden Orb CPU Thermal Fan FC/PPGA for only $18
You will find them on page 41 of the same Computer Paper.
Jim Pook
Lyle Gardiner wrote:
> There's a computer store on Hastings in Burnaby, a couple of blocks east of
> Willington. It's on the north side of the street, sorry don't remember the
> name or exact address, but they have coolers for cpus, hard drives, and
> cd-roms. Check it out.
>
> Ollie <ollie@NO_SPAMduprey.net> wrote in message
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Ken Hodson
this place is downtown and have a very good selection, globalWon, alphas,
and those orb ones. Atic also sells orbs.
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bizDoctor.van.bc.
tel = 737-3998
Sidney
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Ollie
Anyone overclocking any Durons or T-Birds? Which fans do you
recommend?
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 05:55:17 GMT, ollie@NO_SPAMduprey.net (Ollie)
wrote:
Ernie Bin
Those things put out some amazing heat. Durons run cooler, but alphas
are still good choices.
Dave Martindale
>Anyone know where I can find good sized CPU coolers (ones that I can
>use for overclocking) in Vancouver? Wholesale or retail.
You might want to see how hot the CPU runs with the included heatsink
(if any) first. I just upgraded my home PC to a PIII-700 (Coppermine,
FCPGA, 100 MHz FSB) and it puts out very little heat. I'm not
overclocking it, but the heat sink (standard Intel retail box fan/sink)
is not even noticeably warmer than room temperature. Overclocking 33%
to 133 MHz FSB would produce only 33% more heat (at the same voltage),
so it should easily remain cool enough without a special heat sink.
In comparision, the processor I replaced was a PII-350 (Katmai).
Its heat sink got noticeably warmer even though this slot-1 sized
heatsink had at least twice the cooling area of the Coppermine's
FCPGA-sized heatsink and the CPU core was running at half the speed.
The Coppermines seem to be quite low-power CPUs.
On the other hand, if you are trying to get the very last bit of
speed out of the CPU, a bigger heatsink and fan may be worthwhile.
If you raise the voltage, power dissipation goes up as the square
of the voltage, and the maximum usable speed is slightly higher at
lower CPU temperatures.
But I'd really like to see someone measure the maximum overclocking
speed they can get with (a) ordinary retail-box heatsink and thermal
grease, and (b) really big aftermarket heatsink and really expensive
thermal grease. I'll bet there is very little gain from the latter.
This is not to disparage what Kryotech does - their refrigeration
systems get the CPU far below room temperature and run the CPU at
speeds demonstrably well above what you can get at room temperature.
But most overclocking info I've seen has people just automatically
buying big coolers and exotic thermal grease, without anyone actually
measuring whether it makes any noticeable differance at all. It
seems rather like people putting spoilers on cars that are only
driven in the city, I guess.
Dave