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I might be coming at this issue from the wrong angle, but here goes.....
I had decided on buying a Vapochill PE standalone system this Summer to get mega overclocks on my AMD XP1700+ 0310UMPW DLT3C. Currently I'm still planning to buy, but a certain thought has been lingering in my head now for the past week or so, so I decided to make a post about it and see what everyone else thinks.
I will be paying $500+ for a Vapochill PE for my XP Tbred while at the same time AMD's new Hammer processor is right around the corner. Will our current extreme cooling systems be very very quickly outdated by Asetek and Chip-Con's cooling systems for the Hammer? What put this thought in my head was a statement over at the Asetek forums. The statement came as a response to a customer asking that Asetek create a slightly better mounting method for AMD chips, because of the number of people complaining about chipped cores (this post isn't about whether the Vapochill actually chips cores or not, let that debate be in another thread please). The Asetek rep responded by stating that AMD has been telling them that the Hammer is right around the corner for a few months now so Asetek has stopped updating Vapochill systems for the current AMD processors.
I want to get your opinions on this, please. Should we wait for the Hammer to come out and then jump on the Vapochill/Prometia bandwagon, or is going out and getting one right now for the current AMD processors justifiable? Do you think it's possible that Asetek and Chip-con could release kits to convert the Vapochill/Prometia to work with the Hammer? I might be looking too deep into this, but then again that's why I'm posting.
Thanks for any insight!!
I had decided on buying a Vapochill PE standalone system this Summer to get mega overclocks on my AMD XP1700+ 0310UMPW DLT3C. Currently I'm still planning to buy, but a certain thought has been lingering in my head now for the past week or so, so I decided to make a post about it and see what everyone else thinks.
I will be paying $500+ for a Vapochill PE for my XP Tbred while at the same time AMD's new Hammer processor is right around the corner. Will our current extreme cooling systems be very very quickly outdated by Asetek and Chip-Con's cooling systems for the Hammer? What put this thought in my head was a statement over at the Asetek forums. The statement came as a response to a customer asking that Asetek create a slightly better mounting method for AMD chips, because of the number of people complaining about chipped cores (this post isn't about whether the Vapochill actually chips cores or not, let that debate be in another thread please). The Asetek rep responded by stating that AMD has been telling them that the Hammer is right around the corner for a few months now so Asetek has stopped updating Vapochill systems for the current AMD processors.
I want to get your opinions on this, please. Should we wait for the Hammer to come out and then jump on the Vapochill/Prometia bandwagon, or is going out and getting one right now for the current AMD processors justifiable? Do you think it's possible that Asetek and Chip-con could release kits to convert the Vapochill/Prometia to work with the Hammer? I might be looking too deep into this, but then again that's why I'm posting.
Thanks for any insight!!