HP Processor heatsink

Advantages: Superb cooling, firm fixing, 80 or 92mm fans
Disadvantages: May not fit all boards. A bit fiddley.

..., but there is a comprehensive list of boards and conflicts on the thermalright website. http://www.thermalright.com/ So how does it cool???? My processor is an AMD Athlon 2500XP-m, a mobile processor fitted in a PC. These overclock fantastically well! Mine currently is at 2500 mhz (2.5Ghz) which is equivalent to a normal athlon XP at something like 3700XP. On benchmark tests it performs as well as lower end athlon 64s and equals the performance of a P4 3.2ghz, no mean feat! Of course overclocking to this state means you need to increase the voltage to the processor, and this means more heat! The air temperature here is currently around 30'c, very warm and a little too warm for my liking! This does mean however that the temps I get will be way above normal as the air passing over the heatsink will be warm too, At a voltage of 1.675v I am getting... Read review

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Advantages: Good value for money
Disadvantages: The heatsink and fan

...Versatile computer, long lasting, reliable. Bought from John Lewis and came with a 2 year guarantee. I paid £400 for this computer 2 years ago. It contained Windows XP home edition now that is likely to be sold using the new Vista Operating System. Type: Value Processor Family: Intel 5 Series (Pentium 4) RAM: 256 MB Storage Capacity: 80 GB RAID: No Graphics Card: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 GM Primary Optical Drive: DVD-ROM/CD-RW Secondary Optical Drive: None Monitor Type: CRT Screen Size: 17 inches The time it takes to boot up and load the computer from the power switch is very fast. It takes less than 30 seconds from power on, until the start screen can be seen. With time if adding files and other game programs the memory will become slower. 256mb ram is not enough i would suggest as I have... Read review

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Advantages: Fast speeds, four cores, great overclocking potential, easy to install
Disadvantages: Absolutely none!

...to carefully bend them back perfectly or buy a whole new processor.) making sure the processor is the right way round, to find which way the processor goes there is a small black tab in one corner that shows you which way it goes. All you have to do after that is place the heatsink on top of the processor (Don't forget to add thermal paste if there isn't any already on the bottom of the heatsink, it usually looks like a gray paste. Your CPU may overheat if you don't have thermal paste) and twist the four locks into place to hold the heatsink onto the motherboard. After that you're all set to go and fire up all four cores! Steppings: The Q6600 comes in two different steppings. Steppings are the different revisions of the chip's archetecture to further imrpove efficiency. Now about the two different steppings: the B3 stepping and the G0... Read review

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