Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:23:50 02/24/01
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On February 24, 2001 at 06:05:10, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>On February 24, 2001 at 03:52:47, Andreas St. wrote:
>
>Seems a bit too high to me. Many consider more than 55 degrees to be too high. I
>run about 20 degrees centigrade cooler, but then I haven't overclocked by cpu up
>from 800mhz yet. With your temps, I would worry about how I would fair when
>summer rolls around with the higher ambient temps pushing the cpu temp even
>higher.
>
>At 1.2Ghz I would definitely look for a high quality cpu cooler. For example, I
>use a very nice Globalwin with a 7000rpm fan (noisy) for my athlon cpu. I also
>have 2 additional fans to circulate air through the case. For 1.2 Ghz, you
>should at the very least have a cooling setup like mine.
>
If you're interested, there was an interesting piece on coolers a couple of
months ago at Tom's Hardware: http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q4/001211/
Albert
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