Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 15:51:28 09/03/01
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On September 03, 2001 at 13:58:51, Aaron Gordon wrote: >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. Wow that looks like a good cooler! and i see it's lucky not so big because only a small fan fits on to the board (its height may be huge of course). >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 tyan motherboards can't be overclocked, no way, processor speed is automatically detected :) >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. You need registered DDR ram, and again, you can't overclock the dual motherboard anyway, especially not the memory. Note i doubt there is registered memory available that goes above PC2100 :) >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. Yeah it seems they want companies to buy the expensive MP/palomino but the new steppings tbird work great dual for computerchess! >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. Nowadays overclocking is a very risky business with those huge number of watts you need to suck away from the processor in order to not let it go wild. I can't advice anyone to overclock a palomino, note that the tyan mobo is not exactly a mobo to try all this. Man where can i buy those excellent heatsinks in europe? Those delta fans i already have (but wrong heatsink).
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