motherboard and case... Recommendations

[caled]

I'd get the arctic cooling heatsink and take the fan tunnel off if its in the way. Couple of low down fans blowing air in and an exhaust fan should do the trick.

[Simonez]

pentium Ds are notourious for running hot mate,

 

the standard intel heatsinks are pants, i had a pentium D exetreme 3.73ghz and that ran around 50c idle with the standard cooler! hit around 70-80 full whack, haha

 

never had trouble with gigabyte in the past, everyone has different views

 

oo as for the cooler, ive got one laying about here, will pm you,

 

and that hiper cooler, looks to be a similar design to what the new i3 / i5 processors come with so ive seen people with on different forums.

[smithyandco]

Took the Gigabyte back today... They tested with a Q6 series cpu. Booted perfectly.

My Pentium D just was compatible even though the Gigabyte website listed it as compatible

 

The crap HTPC heatsink went back also.

 

Now running the MSI/HP oem board which will do for now!

 

Coolermaster 330 case (cpu funnel removed) with an iCute 450W PSU (Coolermaster PSU being kept as a spare as iCute is quietest - lower 140mm fan rather than 120mm).

Coolermaster 120mm 1200rpm fan at the front of the case and a Akasa 120mm 1200rpm fan on the rear.

Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Quiet (revision 2) cpu heatsink/92mm fan - Using the pre-applied paste.

 

Current idle: 42c

Stressed: 51c

 

Could probably bring those temps down a few degrees if I used some Artic Silver 5... but I'm happy with the current temps!