Duron 800 at 900 with radio shack hsf...

[demon-eater]

HI Im just posting to say that cheap hsf do actually work..
I was advised against buying a radio shack hsf the other week but bought one anyway.. I got my duron 800mhz the other day and slapped it in system (which I built) and ran it at 800mhz for 5minutes then overclocked it to 896mhz (bad choice on motherboard fast as it will go) and then decided to install windows 2k.. download stuff watch a dvd rip.. got sandra temp said 100F after watching a dvd rip went out to bios said 95F my room temp was close to 80F the MB temp was 83F with my case off.. now i spent $10 dollars on a athlon/duron hsf at radio shack and it is working perfectly fine.. and I bought some fans to put in the case so that when i close the case it doesn't get hot Im putting a reall small fan on my video card, a 80mm fan in front and a 80mm in back or top have not yet decided....




im gonna try and flash a new bios but i think i have the latest one for my MB

[SickBoy]

Well, a $10 HSF might be fine and dandy for a 100 MHz overclock on a Duron... (where you haven't upped the core voltage or FSB) but you need something a bit more substantial for a TBird. I had an FOP32-1 that kept my Duron idling at about 28 C... even when overclocked to 970 the idle temps stayed the same, maybe a 1 or 2 C difference. When I stuck that HSF on my brand new TBird, I thought it would peform OK, man was I wrong. I couldn't raise the vcore over stock at ALL without things getting too hot too quick. I'd also remind you to keep in mind that temps initially can be lower than a typical temperature - you need to let your system run for quite a while (12-14 hours sometimes) to get a true indicator of what your temp zones are looking like. Also, you should download MBM from TweakFiles (http://www.tweakfiles.com/) so that you can view your temps in Windows.

AMD specifies heatsinks and other equipment to be used on their processors for a reason.... socket A chips are taxing on power & cooling equipment and AMD's recommendations are not to be taken lightly. Do as you please, but please don't try to convince people to do things that may unnecessarily endanger their equipment. I know this may sound hypocritical, but we don't need any more keychains around here than we already have.

SickBoy

[demon-eater]

lol yes you are right.. but my room temps are kinda high and i do have mbm and my computer has been on for ohhh um... 72hours so far without a power down yet :-)... also i just tried to put in a new bios but im doing something wrong.. my book said to download the file from their site.. did that... then put it on a floppy.. did that.. restart my comp with it in did that.. invalid system disk is what i get.. and when i try to load it after using my startup disk so im in dos it says that this blah blah blah can't be run in dos... i want to overclock this baby more and see how hot i get this duron with my currect room temps cause during the winter this room is like 50F so i can't wait for then

[killem1x1]

This is a good post because I felt the same way when I popped my Duron in and it only ran at 92-95 degrees F, but when I bymped the vcore a tiny bit the temps went through the roof. Just as SickBoy stated, you put one of those pupps on a 1.4 bird, and someone is out alot of money. IMHO you should not use a "stock" HSF if you plan on overclocking, and what was the name of this place again??? :rolleyes: :) :rolleyes:
I'm glad that it works for you, but I wouldn't want someone that just shelled out 100+USD to think it would work for them, right?

[eobard]

Lemme see if I got this straight... ...you bought something at radio crap and it actually works?????????:confused:

[Bubba]

To flash your bios you need to make the floppy bootable with the new bios files on it.Be careful when you do this you can toast your Mobo if you don't know what your doing.Flashing the bios is serious stuff.

[FRANK]

I With all of the money I have invested in my systems, I don't think that it's a very wise decision to try to save ten dollars on one of the most important components in the system. After a quick tallying of the value of the components in one of my systems, just under $2000.00. The additional $10.00 spent on a quality heat sink amounts to approximately 1/2% of the total cost of the system. Money well spent in my opinion!

Good Luck with your methods.