cooling solution for overclocked P4

asgallant

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I'm in the process of building a new system (P4 2.8 on an Asus P4C800-E board) and I want to run the system overclocked to FSB1000 to take full advantage of a pair of Kingston Hyperx PC4000 (DDR500) 512 DIMMs. Will the packaged hfs be able to handle the overclocking, or will I have use another cooling system? If the latter, what will do the trick at low cost?
 

wschuerm

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if you do go for heigh end cooling i suggest u choose pc4200 or 4400 ram as you may be to go further than 250fsb


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jammydodger

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On air? Without better cooling on his northbridge? You think?

<font color=blue>P4c 2.6@3.25
512Mb PC4000
2x120Gb 7200.7 in RAID0
Waterchill KT12-L30
Abit AI7
Radeon 9800Pro
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scottchen

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I'm anti-kingston, they make the most unstable PC4000 ram, in fact most of them won't survive memtest86. Go for Corsair/OCZ/Geil, their rams overclocks much better and much stabler.

As for cooling, like wusy said, most thermalright lineup would do the job to cool, but the problem is the 2.8C may not be able to reach the 250FSB mark with air cooling just period. This all depends on luck.

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