March 2000 - Overclockers

Celeron FCPGA 533 MHz

March 31, 2000 admin 0

SUMMARY: Overclocking Nostalgia March 2000: Remember the good old C300A? Did 450 out of the box. Overclocking Nostalgia March 2002: Remember the good old FCPGA C 533? Did 800 out of the box. And that about says it. By sheer

Maximizing Airflow

March 31, 2000 admin 0

Getting a P4 was a very big decision. Aside from selling my first born for a 1.5 GHz, even with my setup, I was concerned about heat. OK, OK – so I’m obsessed about overheating; you try living in Texas

Pentium III Slot 1 Golden Orb User Review

March 29, 2000 admin 0

Welcome to my straight forward review of the third party Pentium III Heatsink/fan known as the Golden Orb, or “Majesty II”, as it seems to be called over here in the UK. Summary This heatsink is excellent for users who

Adventures in SCSI Land

March 29, 2000 admin 0

Many thanks to Hyper Microsystems for allowing us to test these products. My setup: CASE: I have an EAGLE tooless case, with TWO 80MM INTAKE FANS at the bottom, TWO 80MM EXHAUST FANS at the top. POWER SUPPLY: 450 WATT

Saving Slotkets

March 28, 2000 admin 0

Some precautions from someone who has been there! “I think I should point something out that could cause a lot of people to end up with fried motherboards when drilling their slotkets. I am currently using an old Abit slotket

Saving Slotket

March 28, 2000 admin 0

Some precautions from someone who has been there! “I think I should point something out that could cause a lot of people to end up with fried motherboards when drilling their slotkets. I am currently using an old Abit slotket

Soltek Slotket Voltage Hack

March 27, 2000 admin 0

My Setup: CASE: I have an EAGLE tooless case, with TWO 80MM INTAKE FANS at the bottom, TWO 80MM EXHAUST FANS at the top. POWER SUPPLY: 450 WATT SERVER, (the better to run Peltiers with my friend…..) It has TWO

ABIT VT6X4

March 26, 2000 admin 0

SUMMARY: This is Abit’s successor (?) to the VA6 – it is basically the same board but updated with the 133A drivers which features AGP 4x. Like many VIA motherboards, the ABIT’s memory performance suffers in comparison to BX boards.

Bob’s Cool Video Fix

March 24, 2000 admin 0

Here is a pic of my Asus V6800 DDR G-force card. I installed 24 RAM heatsinks on the 8 memory chips (3 per chip) and added an extra beefy heat sink – a Global Win FA-420 on the GPU. I

Intel Coppermine S-Specs

March 23, 2000 admin 0

We get a lot of emails asking which chip is best to buy for overclocking. In general, 100 MHz CPUs are easier to overclock than 133 MHz parts, as the lower bus speed allows you to use 133 MHz; if