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Dothan Cooling

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KingThot

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Does anyone know if any current 478 and/or 775 coolers are compatable with Dothans? Would a xp-90 just crush a Pentium M or keep it super cool? Or would it just not fit???
 
Depends on the board. The DFI P-M board uses a chipset sized heatsink, so mounting anything full size is going to be a challenge. The AOpen i855 P-M board uses a fairly standard P4-478 mounting bracket, but the core of the Dothan is much shorter than that of a normal P4 due to the lack of an IHS. That means that a full size P4 cooler will fit the bracket, but may not even touch the core. That would obviously be a bad thing.

Some of the heatsinks that use the board mounting holes should work, but then you have to be careful not to damage the core when putting them on.

It's easiest to just use the supplied heatsink, not like Dothan needs much more than stock cooling anyway.
 
Yeah but I'm getting a xp-90 for free so I was wondering if I could put it to use if I decide to buy this 1.7 dothan. I dunno maybe I'll just go with the stock cooler. If I went with the xp-90 think I could go passive?
 
Probably, if you don't plan to overclock and have good case airflow. They run cool, but I wouldn't trust passive. Better to have some airlfow, even if it's from a low-speed fan.

The stock coolers are a good choice. I have a 1.6@2.13GHz on the DFI board, hasn't gotten close to 40C even with room temps approaching 24C and case temps around 35C.
 
I'm thinking the biggest problem is that the dothan don't have heatspreaders like the usual P4's. I may work though. By the way what type of performance are you getting out of your dothan I've heard of them beating P4 EE's and FX-55's.
 
i saw this guy at ocforums use his SLK-800 or whatever the older thermalright heatsink for a64 and p4 was. it worked fine, your just gonna want a shim for that cpu, so you dont crush the core. he got to 2.7ghz with it on there too.
 
KingThot said:
I'm thinking the biggest problem is that the dothan don't have heatspreaders like the usual P4's. I may work though. By the way what type of performance are you getting out of your dothan I've heard of them beating P4 EE's and FX-55's.
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The 1.6Ghz@2.13Ghz replaced a P4 2.4C@3Ghz and is every bit the equal or better in performance, using about 1/4 the power. It's also been the most stable PC I've had since a PIII Tualatin on an i815 chipset.
 
widefault said:
The 1.6Ghz@2.13Ghz replaced a P4 2.4C@3Ghz and is every bit the equal or better in performance, using about 1/4 the power. It's also been the most stable PC I've had since a PIII Tualatin on an i815 chipset.
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i815 was the shit

I still have my ASUS CUSL2 and 1Ghz Cu mine
 
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