This cooler is a fricking joke!

[Technoid]

This compac was BSOD'ing terribly and I lifted the hood to check if something was amis.....

Look what I found

on a Pentium 2 350Mhz

Note: the pic will be uploaded to separate server space when i get home

Edit: stated CPU type and speed
Edit2: Spell check

[Slougi]

ROFLMAO
Is that a pentium 2?

[Paddy]

OMG!

[Evildead666]

The machine i'm typing this on is a Compaq PII 400, with a passive heatsink, exactly like that.
Just the PSU fan to extract the heat (no case fans), and i run Folding@Home all day, keeping the proc nice and hot. (100%load)
I have no idea about the temps (just hoping it will fry so i can get a new one)...
We also have PII 450's like this.
The Compaq AP 500 has a PIII 550 passively cooled, but a 120mm front case fan, guided over the cpu's, so not really passive.

At least there are no fans to fail.
i visited a client who was complaining (as usual) and i pointed out that his case was virtually too hot to touch, and that his psu fan was dead, cpu fan dead and both making very horrible noises. (think of the sound a couple of fans being placed in a bucket of dust would be...and hairballs too!)
I haven't heard from them since, and this was over 6 months ago.
i suspect the computers still running....

[UtwigMU]

I have a PII350@466 with stock intel cooler. temps are 33 idle and 43 full load.

Most Compaqs and other OEMs are cooled only by case fan with somewhat better heatsink.

[PAugustin]

This is the standard cooler on all the compaq PII, there is nothing wrong with it.

[The PIT]

Yup I've seen those before.

[DGhost]

Yeah, seen plenty of those before. they can get really hot if not cooled correctly...

[Technoid]

I changed that POS to a REAL HS and all the BSOD's when't for a walk

Compaq's that have passive coolers usualy has a case fan also, but not this asspaq

I haven't seen that one before....

Usualy compaq's has passive coolers that are more "normal" looking (lots and lots of thin fins)

And admit it;
If I had done a cooler like that and told you all about it, you'd think I've gone nuts

[Jon P. Inghram]

Wow... a friend asked me to check out the HD in his old Compaq the other day (it wasn't working at all.) While I had the case open I noticed he had a cat; two cats actually would be more accurate, as there had to have been an entire cat's worth of hair wadded into the HSF on the processor (K6-2 400.) I was amazed the poor thing hadn't melted down or something.

Then I turned towards the HD. He said it hadn't been working at every start up recently, and on the last boot it quit totatlly. I couldn't get it to even spin up, and when I asked him what happened last time it worked, he said it make a lot of loud clicking sounds before it startting running... needless to say it was DEAD.

Compaq sucks.

On the otherhand, I kinda like the way the HS is designed on my moms HP. It's got a Celeron (unsure of the clock speed, but it's also an older one), and what looks like a retail HS on it. But instead of a fan, the case has this neat plastic shroud that is attached to an 80mm case fan. Runs cool and quiet, and helps ventilate the case better than just the PS fan.

[SteveC]

We got loads of compaq Deskpro's at work - all their heatsinks are like that. I think they're really cool!

The PII's don't have a case fan, just the PSU fan.
Their PIII's have the fan directly behind the spikey heatsink.

[ZokesPro]

Originally posted by SteveC
We got loads of compaq Deskpro's at work - all their heatsinks are like that. I think they're really cool!

The PII's don't have a case fan, just the PSU fan.
Their PIII's have the fan directly behind the spikey heatsink.

But are they any good?

[Technoid]

If the Compaq HS'ses are so god....
How come then that I have "repaired" lot's of compaq's that have those silly kind of passive HS's by just changing to a "real" one?



BTW:

And I don't think the magnetic speaker they like to place adjacent to the cpu helps either.....

[ZokesPro]

Just to prove even more what Technoid is saying, I had a Coolermaster Heatsink and changed it to a AX7 and my system is MUCH more stable than before.