Hello, Quick question, I am building a PC and since I went intel I am a little short on cash so I am currently on a optiplex at the moment for now just for the next month or so while I prepare to purchase 2500k, cooler and some ram to get up and running; my question is about the dell optiplex, I purchased a p4 560 prescott 3.6 ghz to replace the current cpu, as its old and maxes at 100% in simple games like quake 3, from the late 90s, which didn't make too much sense considering the computer has hardware from 5 years or so later, but anyway I purchased the replacement cpu and thermal grease for it, however I notice the heatsink with the exhaust fan doesn't look like it would fit a newer quieter stock cpu cooler, since this current model uses plastic snaps, one on each side of the heatsink to hold it on the processor with a few plastic clips, is there anyway I can replace this CPU cooler for a quieter one for the next month?
The cpu maxes at 100% and the fan ramps up and never goes back down until reboot, the air coming out the back of the CPU is not even hot as you would expect for modern cpus, its actually cooler then my rooms ambient air but I read on this forum and others that it may be something to do with the motherboards readings on the fans, and just defaulting it to 100% to be safe the cpu is being cooled.
The Heatsink doesn't have any fan on it directly, just copper pipes with metal fins and the exhaust fan on the back of the computer is what pulls heat off the heatsink, I didn't really want to replace with another one as I suspect it will just be the same, any ideas? :s
Pic from internet what this one looks like :
And here is the heatsink that goes up through the green plastic shroud and has air extracted from it by the really loud fan:
Small note, I purchased this whole little tower off ebay for 30$ so I couldn't really care about the condition or what not, it works fine for everyday tasks as long as you can handle the sound it makes. The cpu heatsink was completely covered in about 1/5th inch of just cooked on lint type stuff, I got as much of it off as I could when I heard how loud it was at start up when it first got here, but as you can see some of its still caked in the fins, and the plastic shroud/fan has like almost a resin or just sticky from plastic melting I suppose, it looked like the cpu shroud had never been moved and the heatsink never cleaned in 10 years when I got it, needless to say cleaning it didn't really help much, the fan is a little different sounding now that I got alot of gunk outta it, but its still pretty sticky all over it, and the heatsink is aswell on the metal fins.
I already have the $6 "new" 560 prescott p4 on the way, hoping that will remove the 100% taxing on average tasks like 720p video watching, or playing a older 1999s game, but no big worries; I recently purchased a 650 Ti and I am frankly already aware there is not much of a point of installing it as the cpu setup on this older dell is quiet bottlenecked for anything relative to using a dedicated GPU. I measured the PCI 3.0 on the new asrock mboard laying in wait compared to this foxconn dell one, and it seems to be the same and I've read its backwards compatible just matter of dimensions and fitting, but we will see how the 560 prescott works out compared to the 520 in terms of performance before I even bother trying to fit it.
Any suggestions on how I could get a adequate cooler/heatsink setup for this p4 without drowning out anything else in the room, I couldn't imagine a work place using these for if there was more then 2 of these in one room you would have hard time hearing anyone talking next to you :#
Some threads I've read suggest its a CPU related problem, and stays with CPU after its switched out, some suggest its motherboard design with the fans not giving reading appropriately, I figured I'd see what people here could conjure up while I'm waiting for usps/ups deliveries.
Won't be finishing new rig for another month atleast so would love to get a quieter setup for this older dell, and then can just toss it in the living room for computer illiterate people to use for mediocre web browsing and email when I'm finished building intel setup.
The cpu maxes at 100% and the fan ramps up and never goes back down until reboot, the air coming out the back of the CPU is not even hot as you would expect for modern cpus, its actually cooler then my rooms ambient air but I read on this forum and others that it may be something to do with the motherboards readings on the fans, and just defaulting it to 100% to be safe the cpu is being cooled.
The Heatsink doesn't have any fan on it directly, just copper pipes with metal fins and the exhaust fan on the back of the computer is what pulls heat off the heatsink, I didn't really want to replace with another one as I suspect it will just be the same, any ideas? :s
Pic from internet what this one looks like :
And here is the heatsink that goes up through the green plastic shroud and has air extracted from it by the really loud fan:
Small note, I purchased this whole little tower off ebay for 30$ so I couldn't really care about the condition or what not, it works fine for everyday tasks as long as you can handle the sound it makes. The cpu heatsink was completely covered in about 1/5th inch of just cooked on lint type stuff, I got as much of it off as I could when I heard how loud it was at start up when it first got here, but as you can see some of its still caked in the fins, and the plastic shroud/fan has like almost a resin or just sticky from plastic melting I suppose, it looked like the cpu shroud had never been moved and the heatsink never cleaned in 10 years when I got it, needless to say cleaning it didn't really help much, the fan is a little different sounding now that I got alot of gunk outta it, but its still pretty sticky all over it, and the heatsink is aswell on the metal fins.
I already have the $6 "new" 560 prescott p4 on the way, hoping that will remove the 100% taxing on average tasks like 720p video watching, or playing a older 1999s game, but no big worries; I recently purchased a 650 Ti and I am frankly already aware there is not much of a point of installing it as the cpu setup on this older dell is quiet bottlenecked for anything relative to using a dedicated GPU. I measured the PCI 3.0 on the new asrock mboard laying in wait compared to this foxconn dell one, and it seems to be the same and I've read its backwards compatible just matter of dimensions and fitting, but we will see how the 560 prescott works out compared to the 520 in terms of performance before I even bother trying to fit it.
Any suggestions on how I could get a adequate cooler/heatsink setup for this p4 without drowning out anything else in the room, I couldn't imagine a work place using these for if there was more then 2 of these in one room you would have hard time hearing anyone talking next to you :#
Some threads I've read suggest its a CPU related problem, and stays with CPU after its switched out, some suggest its motherboard design with the fans not giving reading appropriately, I figured I'd see what people here could conjure up while I'm waiting for usps/ups deliveries.
Won't be finishing new rig for another month atleast so would love to get a quieter setup for this older dell, and then can just toss it in the living room for computer illiterate people to use for mediocre web browsing and email when I'm finished building intel setup.
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