Knowing how far to go...

[toutousai]

I just upgraded my CPU from a Celeron 2.0 to a P4 2.8 w/ 800MHz FSB. When the Celeron was in place, I had Overcloocked it to 2.6GHz. It ran warm at 106F, but performed just great. Unoverclocked, the new CPU is AWESOME, but you know what I have to do...

So the question is this:

A Fan and heatsink were enough to cool a Celeron 30% OC. (2.0->2.6) But now I want to make sure that a 2.8->3.64 OC is adequately cooled, and I think that the Fan and Heatsink will PROBABLY NOT be sufficient. However, being new to the OC scene, I thought I would ask what would be the best solution.

[shiyan]

I'd say that as you've already spent that much money on a great processor, why not spend a little more for a good heatsink for it?

depends on your budget and aim, but some possibilities are:

Thermalright SLK947U or SP94 with Tornado 92mm and Rheostat
Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu

[toutousai]

Well, I don't mind spending a couple hundred bucks on this, but is a heatsink and fan really all I need? That would certaintly be safer and cheaper than I had anticipated, as I had been looking at Corsair's Water Cooling unit...

[sandman001]

Well, if you want to water cool, definatly build your own water cooling system.

You IMO don't gain much in terms of overclocking out of watercooling, just quiet.

[stan03]

if you want to spend a couple hundred dollars by all means go to the water cooling section and build yourself a killer water cooling setup. but you really only need the SP94 and a 92mm tornado or some high cfm fan and be perfectly fine. i wouldn't get a kit unless you really don't want to build your own water cooling system.

[Robrules18]

well either get an awesome air setup or go phase change, (or perltiers but i myself dont like them, too messy) you can geta vapochill brand new for 499 and aircool the rest of the system.

[shiyan]

yeah... the best solution is of course phase change... but if you do decide to go that route, just read up on it, and get something like a bare Prometeia Mach 1, which is around $550, and cools quite a bit better than the Vapochill, and has a better mounting system.

water's a nice place to start too... it all depends on how much money and time you want to spend.

[johnflyons]

My 2.4 runs @ 3.1 (258mhz) @ 27c idle and 34c load with a zalman and a cheap tiger 1 nb cooler. the zalman is a very good air cooling solution.

[FastE]

thats it.....thats all you have no tec or anything else? which zalman do you have? my load is a little more and I have a tec but my Idle is around 10*c.

[shiyan]

Originally posted by johnflyons
My 2.4 runs @ 3.1 (258mhz) @ 27c idle and 34c load with a zalman and a cheap tiger 1 nb cooler. the zalman is a very good air cooling solution.

if you mean tha CNPS7000-Cu, then that's quite an amazing temperature.

how cold are your ambient temps?

[johnflyons]

I'm a newbe that try's todo good reasearch before building a new system and i cannot believe what good luck I've had with this new system. I am writing this post @ 259mhz 1:1 with my corsair DDR Memory@2.5 445 settings where everthing "feels right" in my system. I have had it upto 290 mhz 5/4 memory timings, my herk 9800 pro set @459/366 and everything is beautiful because my plan seems to have worked! As far as the temps go I spent 3-4 hours lapping the processor and the heatsink witch I think contributed to my perception of success! I really think the Zalmam 7000-cu is a really good air cooling solution!