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need help with silent cooler

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purerealm

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I have a P4 2.4 Ghz 400 fsb, and I'm not sure which socket it is

i believe its 478 but I just bought a cooler master cooler for socket 478 and i dont 'think it fits inside. The cooler says it's for p4s 3.0 ghz and up, does that mean that it doesn't support a 2.4, yet it still uses the same socket?

http://fryssupport.net/frys/7240m.cfm
this is the computer.

thanks in advance
 
If it is indeed a socket 478 cooler, then you ought to be just fine. And yes, you have a 478 socket cpu there. It's the size/type of the socket, and not the speed of the cpu that will determine the fit of your cooler. So you are correct. And many coolers today adapt to different sockets as well.

Except for one important thing! Some coolers now today are huge in size, and may not fit in "that respect" into your case.

Do you not think, or have tried to physically install it and it doesn't fit? Is that what you meant?

Which cooler master did you get?

Luck :)
 
Let me get some pictures of the socket and heatsink uploaded, but I need to take them first
 
it's not that it's too big, but the screws aren't in the same configuration as the ones in the old heatsink that's on the computer before i took them off

in the new fan, the screws are on the sides
there isn't even a place for screws on the sides on mobo

in old heatsink it screwed in in the corners
 
interesting, it seems to work now.

what happened was the retention module, which is the plastic rectangle underneath the heatsink that screws into the mobo, fit with my new heatsink! Basically i had to take out the heatsink and put it into old retention module.

i didnt' do this originally because instruciton #1 started with replace the retention module :rolleyes:

The new retention module wouldn't have screwed in, but I'm glad and pleasantly surprised that the old one fit the heatsink. Now I just have to sit back and see if the system is stable
 
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