Intraveinous
02-01-02, 12:25 PM
I got home from work yesterday to find two boxes, one from Axion and one from Millennium Thermal... Finally, my Celly 1.2, ST6 and Glaciator 2 had arrived... I got down to it and put everything together... First thing I noticed was that the Glaciator was in SERIOUS need of lapping... There were machining marks that were deep enough to catch your fingernail on if you were to drag it across the surface... Is anyone else as fed up as I am with manufacturers who superlap and polish review heatsinks, but don't worry about the ones they actually send to their customers??? I haven't lapped it yet, but it's still performing well within my expectations, so I'm OK with it, just kinda irked me.
Anyway, I get everything put together and boot up... There's a GRINDING sound... I realize that the grill on the Glaciator is rubbing on the fan hub... I'd think they would at least plug the thing in and make sure something like this didn't happen... I guss I just expected more from Millennium due to all the praise they've gotten on sites and forums... Removed the grill and booted back up. Woops, need a BIOS update pretty badly... The one it shipped with was from April of 2001. Detected the celly 1.2 as a PIII 800 (228x3.5) hehe... :D. I got it booted up and went to Abit's site, only to find that their FTP is down... Well shoot... Anyone know of another place to get current Abit BIOSes???
Anyway... all in all, I'm pretty happy so far... I need to reinstall OS (had 98 on there before, doesn't handle mobo swaps very well) but it's performing very well considering the BIOS problem and buggy OS... I've decided to leave the IHS on the chip due to the weight of the glaciator and the lack of shims available for the new celerons without caps...
Anyway, that's my story of my switch back to the dark side of Intel :D So far it's been good, I'll report again once I get everything working.
Peace
John
Anyway, I get everything put together and boot up... There's a GRINDING sound... I realize that the grill on the Glaciator is rubbing on the fan hub... I'd think they would at least plug the thing in and make sure something like this didn't happen... I guss I just expected more from Millennium due to all the praise they've gotten on sites and forums... Removed the grill and booted back up. Woops, need a BIOS update pretty badly... The one it shipped with was from April of 2001. Detected the celly 1.2 as a PIII 800 (228x3.5) hehe... :D. I got it booted up and went to Abit's site, only to find that their FTP is down... Well shoot... Anyone know of another place to get current Abit BIOSes???
Anyway... all in all, I'm pretty happy so far... I need to reinstall OS (had 98 on there before, doesn't handle mobo swaps very well) but it's performing very well considering the BIOS problem and buggy OS... I've decided to leave the IHS on the chip due to the weight of the glaciator and the lack of shims available for the new celerons without caps...
Anyway, that's my story of my switch back to the dark side of Intel :D So far it's been good, I'll report again once I get everything working.
Peace
John