Re: 2cooltek, I've bought from them (actually just a guy and his wife) several
times (two Globalwin CPU fansinks, 5 Sunon 60mm case fans, and 2 syringes of
heat compound), and I'm very pleased. He only ships US Postal Service, so
shipping's always reasonable.
Never had any problems. If the 27 gig drive you're talking about is the Maxtor
DiamondMax 6800 or what not, you probably won't need a drive cooler. High
platter count, high spindle speed (10k rpm and the like) SCSI drives are the
drives that typically need some
additional cooling. The Maxtor is only 5400rpm, and consequently won't need any
cooling, probably. And generally speaking, if you run a P3 without a heatsink
and fan(s), your machine will probably crash, if it even boots, a lot, and your
processor will sustain some
damage. If you're not planning on overclocking, I recommend you just get retail
processors and use the stock fansinks. That's cheaper than buying OEM
processors, and then paying even more shipping to get fansinks (which will
invariably be better than what Intel
provides, although Intel's are fine for operation at rated speed). Of course,
if you're overclocking, the latter makes sense.
-Nick
chris tillman wrote:
Have you looked at www.pricescan.com ? Looks like you could get a Retail
PIII-500 from Buy.com for $240. But i'm sure it'll probably cost about
10 S&H. Personally, i prefer Active cooling vise passive on my CPU's and
have bought from buy.com many times and would recommend them as being
reputable. The retail CPU's have 2 X 40mm(??-not sure of exact size)
fans mounted on them. Another site i just found is www.2cooltek.com -
They've got various fans, but i've never bought from them. I use a
(www.baycooler.com)Justcooler for my 10K rpm harddrive and i see a HD200
for 14.50 at 2cooltek and the same Justcooler i have is at
(http://www.coolerguys.com/CPUCOOL/BayCool.htm) for about 12 bucks. That
Justcooler cooled my 10K rpm hard drive down significantly. Seems that a
general conclusion people come up with is that if you have a 7200rpm +
harddrive, a cooler would be a good idea, but if your drive is less than
7200rpm, it's really not so necessary.
Nolan Darilek wrote:
>
> I'm looking at the PIII 500's listed at
> http://216.74.5.24/cpus.html. Basically, I'm not sure which one to
> get. I've eliminated the one with retail packaging for $276, I really
> don't care for that.
>
> So, I need to decide between the one with the fan, or the OEM version
> with only the tray. My case seems to have a fan inside, but will I
> need another fan for the PIII? Also, I'm planning to buy a 27 gig
> drive, and I was also told that I'd need another fan to cool this
> one. Basically, I'm curious about this. Are there fans specific to
> different types of hardware? Until today I thought that there were
> only the case fans for cooling everything.
>
> So, should I be looking for other fans? Should I purchase the PIII
> with the fan or without? And, if I should be looking for a fan to cool
> the 27 gig drive, what, specifically, should I look for?
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