ww and P4's

nyyanks · 06-09-2003, 06:33 PM

Correct me if I'm wrong but the White Water is basically designed,built and optimized for the Athlon with it's smaller core,right.
Now the P4 has a larger core(I know it's the heat spreader,but that's the part that get cooled) so is the WW as effective on a P4 as on an Athlon.
Anyone with insight,experience or thoughts?

I ask because I don't have any loyaty to either brand I just want whatever makes me go faster.So today I like the xp 1700 but I'm starting to think aboout the 2.4C and how much faster I can make it run.So I would like to know if the WW is the waterblock to use for either cpu.

Cathar · 06-10-2003, 02:31 AM

It's almost as effective, the problem being the heat spreader.

The P4's die is 11.3x11.3mm in size. The heatspreader is 1.27mm (0.05") thick. It's not thick enough to spread the heat very far if the waterblock is doing a really good job at soaking the heat up from the hottest central section.

On P4 systems that are correctly reporting temperatures (some have a weird temperature compression thing going on) the gains are typically about 1C less than that seen on AMD CPU's.

06-09-2003, 06:33 PM	#1
nyyanks Cooling Neophyte Join Date: May 2003 Location: NY Posts: 12	ww and P4's Correct me if I'm wrong but the White Water is basically designed,built and optimized for the Athlon with it's smaller core,right. Now the P4 has a larger core(I know it's the heat spreader,but that's the part that get cooled) so is the WW as effective on a P4 as on an Athlon. Anyone with insight,experience or thoughts? I ask because I don't have any loyaty to either brand I just want whatever makes me go faster.So today I like the xp 1700 but I'm starting to think aboout the 2.4C and how much faster I can make it run.So I would like to know if the WW is the waterblock to use for either cpu.

06-10-2003, 02:31 AM	#2
Cathar Thermophile Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 2,538	It's almost as effective, the problem being the heat spreader. The P4's die is 11.3x11.3mm in size. The heatspreader is 1.27mm (0.05") thick. It's not thick enough to spread the heat very far if the waterblock is doing a really good job at soaking the heat up from the hottest central section. On P4 systems that are correctly reporting temperatures (some have a weird temperature compression thing going on) the gains are typically about 1C less than that seen on AMD CPU's.

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