philscomputerlab wrote:Oh it's not the heat I've got an issue with, it's that I can't get my hands on a new P4 cooler 🤣
I had no issues getting a new copper cooler for S370 but S478 seems to be the odd one out it seems. So at the moment I just place the core of a P4 stock cooler (plastic things snapped off) with some thermal paste on it and place a 120 mm fan on top. Works well on my bench type setup but I'd prefer to have something more reliable.
In the ebay auctions thread I linked to some cheap Swiftech 478 coolers I had found, here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/161546169877
This is what I have for my C2Q, and it supports 478 as well:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/191425445054
This should work very well too:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/390960723986
This should work very well too, if the graphics-card version is any indication:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151517608393
My 3.2EE uses this heatsink, as part of a Shuttle:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/201255539573
My Willamette uses an AeroCool HT-101, which pop up from time to time, but I couldn't find one today. I did find another AeroCool tower, the DP-102, though: http://www.ebay.com/itm/321073146767
Basically the bigger take-away is either go with something from the 478 era that will likely be heatpipes + 80mm fan, or get a 775 cooler that has 478 compatibility and sports a 92mm or 120mm fan. The 80mm variant doesn't have to mean more noise, depending on the fan you pick.
Scali wrote:Is there a point to slowing down a modern system anyway? I mean, yes, you may get somewhat of a very distant feel of what a single-core P4 would perform like (even at 1 GHz and 1 core, a Core i7 would still be much faster than any Pentium 3 ever made... Your memory is still much faster, you have a faster HDD, or even SSD, faster videocard, PCI-e bus etc). But other than that... isn't the era of software that crashes on fast machines long gone?
If I think of XP-era games, I think of games like Far Cry, Doom3, Half-Life 2 etc, and they will run just fine on the latest machines, OSes etc.
There are older games (some as recently as 2005) that will not function (either correctly or at all) on multi-core processors. It isn't a matter of the processor being clocked "too fast" as it is the game can't properly time itself or otherwise initialize on multi-core. AMD Socket 939 dual-cores seem to be the worst of the lot in terms of compatibility, but should by no means be considered the only source of problems. Also, FarCry has been documented/reported as having problems with Vista+. Half-Life 2 is a somewhat unfair example because Valve still maintains it.
Finally, "XP-era" doesn't just mean DirectX 9 shooters from 2004 onwards. The games I'm generally having issues with here are DX7/8 titles from a few years earlier. And they're all generally "XP compatible" on their boxes, and will work in XP with hardware from the same era.