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Best Cooler for a Tualatin Pentium 3?

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First post, by tegrady

Posted on 2018-03-20, 11:07

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Hi, any suggestions on a good cooler for a Tualatin Pentium 3?

I am currently using a stock P3 cooler, but it is very loud and I had to bend the retaining bracket in order to get it to fit. Therefore, I would like to buy a new cooler that is quiet and has a screw down attachment, or at least will fit the Tualatin without having to modify it.

I saw Phil's Computer Lab's suggestion of an Arctic Cooling Copper Silent 3, but I can't find this one for sale in the USA. Something similar to this one would be ideal.

Thanks.

Reply 1 of 3, by candle_86

Posted on 2018-03-20, 12:07

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I'm making use of an Athlon XP copper slug insert stock cooler

Reply 2 of 3, by F2bnp

Posted on 2018-03-20, 12:28

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Copper Silent 3 is fantastic, too bad you can't find one.

Take a look at this one: https://www.startech.com/Computer-Parts/Fans/ … et-A~FANDURONTB

Reply 3 of 3, by Tetrium

Posted on 2018-03-21, 21:11

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Copper Silent 3 and AXP Stock coolers (with copper bottom) are my favorite Tualatin cooling solutions, but another favorite of mine was to use a very large all-aluminium heatsink along with a bent clip and a bigger fan (7cm).
Partially due to the large surface area of the Tualatin IHS, a copper bottomed cooler isn't strictly necessary.

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