Htpc 80mm fans and pentium 4 cpu cooler?

[watercooled]

I think the newer ones use far less power but still more than most HTPCs. Apparently the slim uses around 100w while the older consoles use more like 200w - a bit less than the 300w I read earlier!

[Breezey]

Dont go with the Shuriken its a pile of crap, having owned a mini ninja i couldn't recommend them enough, one of the best small-ish coolers you can buy.

[Pob255]

The Shuriken is a very good/quiet cooler but it doesn't have the best thermal performance and could struggle with a hot P4.

Well I'm working off the fact that I stuck a Scythe Samurai Z on my other half's P4HT 3.0ghz socket478 because the stock cooler was drivering me nuts, esp as our pc's are in the same room and I'd just spent a load on getting my pc quiet
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Scythe-Samurai...QQcmdZViewItem
it is the loudest thing in her pc after I used some scythe S-FLEX fans for case cooling and replaced the TT psu's fan with an S-Flex as well.

Because the Shruiken is so low you could probably replace the fan with a better standard sized 120mm with out impacting the clearence, which should greatly improve it's performance.

[watercooled]

Dont go with the Shuriken its a pile of crap, having owned a mini ninja i couldn't recommend them enough, one of the best small-ish coolers you can buy.

I'd have to argue there - its one of the quietest coolers around and cools lower TDP CPUs just fine and it's also one of the best low-profile coolers for slim cases.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

jesus christ my old pentium 4 cpu is stuck on the blooming stock cooler!!! Its as if its glued into the bloody thing! Deal breaker! looks like i may need to buy a new mobo and cpu now!!

[watercooled]

Turn the computer on for a few minutes and let it heat the heatsink up - it may be a wax type TIM used in which case it will be easier to remove melted.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

ahh ok i will try that. i took off my cpu cooler and along came the cpu as well LMAO. i was wondering why it was a bit hard to take out. now i know.

difficult to put it back on the socket though as i have to lock the "lever" on the socket cpu mechanism on the mobo and then push the whole heat sink down in hopes it connects to all the pins properly

[Breezey]

As watercooled said, turn it on for abit, f its the stock cooler make sure all the pins are out and give it abit of a twist.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

manage to take off the cpu from the cooler but now my new heatsink wont fit lol because of this http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/reviews/motherboards/images/ABIT_IC7_MAX3/socket_sm.jpg

[watercooled]

Why not?

[Pob255]

Northbridge cooler? or the plastic MOFET duct?

Oh and he maight of had the pink chewing gum thermal compound, you still find it but mainly on chipset heatsinks and laptop cpu coolers.
That stuff is truely EVIL, as far as I can tell it's some form of polymer, it has the consistancy of used chewing gum that's been stuck to the bottom of a desk for a month.
It does re-soften with heat but it cools and rehardens very quickly.

It's also a total to clean all traces off a chip as it seems to be non-soluble in alcohols, I had to resort to scrapeing a p4 clean with a scalpel.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

update: i took off the plastic MOFET duct and my new cpu cooler managed to slot it fine. all is well now and up and running on my new htpc case. dead silent as well so i am impressed.

The cpu cooler is pretty big. i couldnt fit another fan at the side of the case because of it. Its temporarily anyway as i am planning on moving into a core 2 setup soon

[Pob255]

Well if you do replace it with a c2d or an athlonII you'll be able to keep using that Shuriken

[watercooled]

Sorry the link to the image wasn't there when I posted so I wasn't sure what you meant. Glad you got it sorted though!

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Well if you do replace it with a c2d or an athlonII you'll be able to keep using that Shuriken

yea i heard. comes with all the socket adapters for it. quality stuff indeed.