I Need Help! Please!

[Badbry]

I Have A Athlon 600 Running At 750,And The Only Way It Is Stable Is If I Put A BoxFan Right Next To The Case.I Can't Leave it That Way Because My 2 Yr. Old Son Gets Into Everything.Can I Replace My Stock Cpu Fan With A Better One So It Will Be Stable,And I Can Get Rid Of This Hazard For My Son?

Thanks...
Bryan

[OuTpaTienT]

Couple things you can do.

What kind of heatsink/fan do you have on it now? Is it one of those dinky fans on the heatsink?

You can just remove the baby fan from your heatsink and put a "manly" fan on there. That's what I did. I removed the stock fan which had dimensions of 2" square by half an inch thick. And in it's place I added a standard case fan that's a little over 3" square by 1" thick. (Actually I added 2 of them piggybacked, but we don't need to get into that just yet.)

That fan swap had a tremendous affect on CPU temp.

Another thing you probably need to do is add an exhaust fan to your case. Blowing all that heat off your CPU won't help if it just pools up inside the case.

So add a case fan to the rear of the case to help warm air exit. You will most likely have to be imaginative when attaching this fan because there is usually not a spot for one. Try to line up the holes to anywhere it'll fit on the back of the case and screw it on. It that's proving to be difficult, there's always Velcro. I have a couple fans attached with Velcro. Works great.

[werd]

I know it might be a stupid question but ahve you taken the coffin of of the Athlon??? I imagine you ahve to get it to 750 by use of GFD.

you can get a GW VOS-32 for it for $30 from www.plycon.com (http://www.plycon.com) and that sucka will be able to handle anything you put to it.