Cooling a P4???

[IVIasta_IVIind]

I am building a new system and I am putting in a P4 1.7ghz 423 socket processor. I have been looking into all this talk about overclocking and I would like to give it a try. All I need is a good HSF.... I have been looking at te Taisol CEP405092 or should I look at water cooling cuz I plan on moving to a 2ghz. Any suggestions on the HSF and if I should do water cooling, is there any website to give a good breakdown of how to do it???? Please help.Age Of Empires II: The Conquerors RULEZ:mad:

[The Overclocker]

this is my veiw:

pentium 4s are carp and the best way to cool them is spray them with expandable foam and increase the voltage

now for the info:

i dont think there are many good heatsinks for pentium 4s at the moment, but globalwin make some, cheack their website. if you want to use a good heatsink (alpha or SK6) then you should but them and mod them to fit

[IVIasta_IVIind]

So what exactly makes the AMD processors better than the P4's? Afterall AMD is just copying Intels work isn't it?

[The Overclocker]

a 1.4 amd Atherlon is faster then a 2GHz pentium 4, this is beacuse lots of features have been removed from the pent 4 and rambus memory is used, which is more expensive and not as fast in real life then DDR memory, i forgot, welcom to the forums

[IVIasta_IVIind]

So you are saying I have wasted my money and should begin building another system for a AMD chip, hey the P4 was and is fun why not start another, hehe

[The Overclocker]

you havn't wasted money, get a globelwin heatsink and a good graphics card, the pent 4s are quite good at games and you will get a good overclock, i just wont be as fast as a slower AMD

[IVIasta_IVIind]

OK cool, man am I glad I came accross this place you guys are great. Thanks a lot p.s. have you heard how the P4 does running under Win XP?

[Intraveinous]

P4 does great under XP, there are a lot of things optimized for the SSE and SSE2 that the P4 does. As far as cooling, the Swiftech MC462 will fit on either a P4 or an Athlon, as will the Zalman CNPS-5000+. Both are excellent coolers and retail in the 35-75 USDollar range. Enjoy that chip, should do just fine for ya, and they run pretty darn cool as well...
Peace
John
Oh yeah, and Welcome to the forums!