Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 10:58:51 09/03/01
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Cooling isn't much of a problem. The SK6 might be considered expensive by some people but well worth it as it's around 0.14C/W (about as good as an aluminium liquid cooler). Those are available at http://www.thermalright.com/sk6.htm As for a good dual Athlon board the Tyan Tiger is suppose to be superb and only a mere $209. http://www.pricewatch.com has all the cheapest vendors. Also if you're going to do just chess with it I highly suggest a Thunderbird 1.4GHz. They have the AYHJA core stepping and will do 1.6GHz (sometimes 1.7)with relative ease and possibly no voltage increase (although if you have the SK6 running 1.85v vcore will NOT be a problem). The AYHJA also enjoy's the same 20% power reduction as the palomino BUT it doesn't have SSE or the enhanced prefetch that palomino does. Slap in a couple of 256mb sticks of crucial PC2100 (or if you can afford it PC2400 DDR, 150fsb (300mhz DDR clock)). Also an enermax 650 watt ATX power supply will definately help. Also about the companies saying that the Thunderbird won't work well SMP, thats garbage. Of course they're going to tell you that. They want you to buy the more expensive Athlon MP/Palomino. I hear Thunderbird's and even Duron's work flawlessly in SMP operation. Anyway if anyone wants to know how to help make their system more stable overclocking wise or needs advice on cooling just post a message. I've been doing this for a good 12 years now. I pride myself on building extremely fast, extremely cheap systems. Running a $75 CPU (Thunderbird 1GHz, AXIA stepping) at 1.76GHz with a $100 liquid cooler (and heavily modified Abit KT7a). Last system was a Celeron-2 566MHz at 1202MHz at negative 38 degree's celsius. If thats not value + performance I don't know what is. :) Good luck w/ the dual AMD box's.
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