Quote Originally Posted by Nuckin_Futs View Post

This is hardly true. Granted, water blocks are getting better then the past 5 yrs, CPU's are getting cooler and easier to keep there too on both air and water. Regaedless of cooler, an old Athlon XP Barton was harder to keep cool under high OC then even a B3 quad, and twice as easy as the earliest core 2's. So Any cooler built for the,m or the Intel D's will do the jobe on these quads.

God luck to all!
A Barton 2500 overclocked to 2700MHz with 2.0v is 148 Watts

A B3 Quad 2400 overclocked to 3600MHz with 1.4v is 198 Watts

I hope not to cause arguments but I thought this had to be shown.

The Barton would be pretty good to do 2700 and 2v is quite high I think, where the Quad clocked to 3.6MHZ is very average with VERY low volts of 1.4

More likely the Quad would go to 3.8 @ 1.6v which would be 272 Watts

That's why they take a bit of cooling.

This is only here to maybe help show why and not put forward as an argument just some plain easy mathematical facts.