Hello folks

The Pentium 4 era was quite wild and so were intel's attempts to create a fitting "freezer" for the hot-head to keep it purring nicely. On the web you can find some variants of their stock coolers for socket 478 and they are mostly out of the Northwood gen - sometimes with copper core which was added later on once the higher clocked P4's were around.

This thread can be used as a ref/guide or just for some small talk about your experience with the intel stock coolers out of that generation.

I've had quite a few of them couple of years ago such as the "INTEL A80856-002" which worked quite well with a 2,4Ghz Northwood. Their fans were less noisy than the ones who came with the boxed celeron - to be exact this particular model: Intel A65061-001

I remember I've bought a big box of parts from ebay many years ago and inside were 2x Intel A74895-006 which to me look super beefy compaired to the others listed above and they are quite heavy. Yet I haven't figured out the origin of this heatsink nor the bundle it was shipped with. The cooler itself feels quite "premium" and I used it in an older build with a 2,8Ghz Northwood (which doesn't exist anymore) and it kept the CPU very cool.

Yet the fan itself... Well... I have to say "nice try Intel" but even for the 2000's when small screaming fans were the norm, this one has such an unplesant frequency spectrum at stock speed it drives me nuts. At 7V the fan becomes less noisy and that weird frequency pattern is gone - still this fan is insanely loud when it spins up. It has a thermistor and according to some old datasheets I've found, the fan goes full blast when the surrounding air temperature exceeds 38°C

Another thing I realized about this cooler is the insanely high mounting pressure - the pressure is so high it will bend the motherboard to a level wehere you can easily see it with our bare eye. It always looked a bit "unhealthy" to me and that is one of the reasons why I dislike this model over others such as the famous "Intel D34080-001"

By speaking about the Intel D34080-001 - I also remember owing a INTEL C91249-002 and it looked quite similar but had a different fan and slimmer but more fins and a copper core. Too bad I don't have it anymore since I'd like to make a comparison between these two models.

So far the Intel D34080-xxx seems to be the first and maybe "best" choice when it comes to 478 stock coolers and high clocked (preshot) P4's or I am wrong here? What are your thoughts let it me know! 😀

~ARW4U