Heat & Overclocking

[Sean]

So I just picked up my brand new processor. I dropped it in, booted up, turned on HT and all that, and let the HL2 menu run for a few hours. Upon restart, the BIOS measured the CPU at 59°C.
Now, I've got a pretty average heatsink, a 120mm case fan in, and 2 80mm fans out. Can anyone reccommend a way of lowering the temperature a few notches for not so much cash?

Note: It's a 3.0 with a Northwood core, and it's got an 800mhz FSB w/ HT. Find out whatever else you want to know about it here; it's not where I bought it, but it's the same processor.

 

[Asus]

59C is actually pretty common for Pentium 4 CPUs with the stock heatsink/fan although a bit warm.

If you want to lower the temp, I would suggest buying a copper Heatsink/fan. Thermalright, thermaltake, zalmans and a few others make good heatsinks.

 

[blahblahblah]

P4's rarely increase their temps when under load. So don't worry too much when playing a game or doing processor heavy acitivites.

It is a bit on the high side, but still okay.

 

[Sean]

Yeah, I've had no heat problems as of yet, so I'm not worried. My problem is that I'd like to jack up the clock rate a bit, and I don't want to kill my CPU.

Asus: any specific reccomendations? I'm kind of strapped for cash currently, considering how much I just dropped on the processor, so what'll give me the most bang for the buck?