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Hi there I am wanting water cool my athalon xp cpu and need to get a cpu water block that would work with the type of board i have could anyone help??
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Water Cool A Amd Athalon XP
- Thread starter TheMixtureMedia
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to the forums!And what kind of board is that? (what socket type specifically)
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Instead of just jumping into watercooling, you should look at other options.
1. Clean your computer, dust does not help cooling
2. Reseat your heatsink with new paste
3. Get aftermarket cooling
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Justifying the cost of watercooling such an old chip will be hard to do. Look into a new, better heatsink, that will fit socket A.
Edit, gangaskan's got it. The SI-97 is very nice.
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what kind of TT heatsink? you mght want to invest in something else, for example, a ThermalRight Xp-90 or something similar
edit : durrr the xp-90 dosent fit SocketA try a SI-97
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I would suggest at least reading the stickies and quite a few threads on watercooling.
Can you show us what the bottom of the heatsink looks like if you were to remove it right now? I would like to see how you applied the paste.
Temps should not be that high.
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those chips ran a bit hot, used to water cool one a long time ago, may need to find an old maze or maze2 if you really want to water cool. But with a chip that old it's prolly on it's last legs, good little chip tho, I would upgrade to am2 before watercooling, by the time you paid for all the stuff you could get something 20x faster for about the same price or less, I'll look at home at see if I have any of my old stuff still.
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there are a few socket A heatsinks in the classies, however, you're a few posts short of getting there 
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You could do something like this
http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/swh2edukit.html
It fits pretty much all past and present chips.
http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/swh2edukit.html
It fits pretty much all past and present chips.
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i got an AMD 2800+ socket A as well and honestly, the benefits do not out weight the cost. save he money and build a new system
