Recommend a mobo and cooler to run P4 Prescott CPU :)

[TUG]

As title, looking for a good motherboard, probably canterwood based if its the best, to run a P4 2.8gig Prescott core'd CPU.

Looking @ the Asus P4C800 really, dont need any posh edition mobos cuz I'm running old styleeee IDE kit and what not lol.

Any other recommendations? Dont need the fancy stuff remember, but want a solid, capable board with good OC'ing ability.

Also need a good but not OTT expensive or noisy cooler, any ideas?

Cheers

 

[old.user4556]

My only piece of advice would be to get the 2.8 Northwood (cheaper and it'll be slightly faster due to the shorter pipelines on the Northwood).

My 2p's

G

 

[TUG]

Basically mate, the CPU is costing me a pint (dont ask!) so I aint gonna be TOO picky, but hence needing some OC powah

 

[Trem]

Oi Tug I got an uber cooler fan thingy for sale - £20 and its yours

 

[TUG]

Will do some research mate n get back to ya

 

[Xavier]

The ASUS is spot-on for what you're after matey.

 

[FuzzyLogic]

And that cooler is basically the mutts nuts

It's a little heavy like, but is that really an issue

(by heavy I mean it's 773g to the recommended 450g or so)

 

[TUG]

Blimey I'd bolt it down then lol

Thanks for the replies so far

 

[Trem]

Its heavy but I had no probs when I used it, can't use it now as I have a Barton processor

 

[Mr.Monkey3]

And that cooler is basically the mutts nuts

It's a little heavy like, but is that really an issue

(by heavy I mean it's 773g to the recommended 450g or so)

I don't get how it is that heavy...
This Thermaltek jobbie is a block of copper as large as my fists, yet it's only 650g
http://www.thermalright.com/a_page/main_product_slk948u.htm

Yet the zalman flower is heavier? Madness.

*ties weights to cpu to improve length*

 

[Mr.Monkey3]

Scrap that. That Zalman flower is huge!

Could happily use that to beat some puppies to death.

 

[FuzzyLogic]

Its heavy but I had no probs when I used it, can't use it now as I have a Barton processor

*poke* I have a barton too and it fits just fine

 

[Trem]

I was told you aren't meant to fit them onto Bartons.

 

[Mr.Monkey3]

*watches Fuzzys cpu turn into so much charcoal*

 

[FuzzyLogic]

*panics lots*


Na, fits fine onto the cpu, the Zalman site says it can go onto socket 462 motherboards, and it does! quite happily. Just read up on it's supported mobo list before you go buy it else you might find a few missing holes where the support arches are supposed to go

 

[TUG]

Update, the 2.8 gig for a pint is no more






































3.2gig prescott now instead

 

[TUG]

Trem, have you got all the fittings/screws for the heatsink? If so I'll probs have it off ya