First post, by Almoststew1990
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I am putting together 2000 to 2005 XP PC. I am using AMD for a change, socket 939 as CPUs are more readily available compared to Socket 754 and I am hoping for a bit more speed and reliability than Socket A (e.g. power supplies!)
My motherboard came with a normal (for the era) sized cooler and a clawhammer 3500+. It runs hot! It idles in the BIOS at 45-50c when the 70/80mm fan is just set to default "on" ~3000rpm. Cool n' Quiet doesn't really work as the fan profile needs to be pretty much the same as the default "on all the time" to keep it cool not on fire. The cooler is seated fine and has fresh thermal paste etc. I do have a lovely tower cooler but for some derpy reason my motherboard doesn't have four corner holes for mounting such a bracket; it uses two. It does have circles for where these should be though so I could get our my drill...
Anyway I've seen a Winchester 3200+ CPU for £4 on eBay. It's a 67watt CPU (the clawhammer is 89watt). Will this give me noticable temperature reductions, and / or noise reductions through using CNQ? Or should I dig around for a Venice 51watt CPU?
Are the wide range of 939 CPUs generally well supported by all motherboards with a BIOS update? The CPU support list on my motherboard's support page is blank. It's quite a late 939 (it has PCI-E) Foxconn 6100K8MA-RS.
Can a 3200 at 2GHz really keep up with a 3.2GHz P4 as the naming convention is designed to make me think?
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