June 2000 - Page 2 of 5

Cool That P3V4X!!

June 25, 2000 admin 0

The best method to cool your 9250 clock generator on the P3V4X motherboard is by going to Radio Shack and buying one of their anodized aluminum heatsinks for TO-220 packages (transistors, voltage regulators, etc). Cat No. 276-1368. Electronics has been

GTS Memory Chip Cooling

June 25, 2000 admin 0

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A Down Under Heatsink From Down Under

June 25, 2000 admin 0

I managed to pick up a cB0 stepping PIII700 FCPGA CMine 100MHz in Australia. It runs at 870 MHz with IWill SlktII, Abit BE6 and 256 Mb Hyundai PC133. Totally stable at about 26C (no load) and 36C after a

Overclocker’s Hideout Slot 1 Waterblock

June 24, 2000 admin 0

SUMMARY: Good performance, nice fit and finish – Good building block for multiple peltier systems. Overclockers Hideout sent us their aluminum Super Slot 1 Water Block to test out. This is a large unit (2 x 4″; 50mm x 100mm)

Cool Computers Copper Waterblock Review

June 24, 2000 admin 0

SUMMARY: The copper waterblock from Cool Computers is a competent addition to the water cooling scene. Water cooling is taking off! Seems like very week there’s another new face on the scene. Craig Schmidt of Cool Computers sent us his

Duron/Thunderbird Update: What, where and when to buy

June 24, 2000 admin 0

What you need to know now The Asus A7V allows you to overclock the Duron or Thunderbird. See here for details. Speeds of 950Mhz were reached for 650 and 700Mhz Duron, and 1.1Ghz for a 1Ghz Thunderbird. That’s pretty good

Bevy of Blocks

June 23, 2000 admin 0

SUMMARY: Watch out copper; here come new waterblocks that can cool CPUs as well as you but at lower costs. Chip Eckert over at Overclock-Watercool sent me three very interesting waterblocks. The first one is a bored out aluminum block

Hitachi Caves; Great News for Rambus, But Not Disaster for DDR and AMD

June 23, 2000 admin 0

If you want an URL to read the story, go here. The same story can be found at Cnet.com and in a Rambus press release. All you need to know is that Hitachi conceded defeat in the lawsuit Rambus launched

Beginner Guide: Re-Partition, Re-Format and Re-Install

June 22, 2000 admin 0

There is something we all do but nobody likes to talk about. No doubt this is related to two factors. The first is its repetitive nature. The second is, we have to do it far more often than we like

Peering Through The Fog Machines: What You Should Expect From Duron and Solano and What You Deserve From Hardware Websites

June 20, 2000 admin 0

(If you just want to read about Duron and Solano; it starts around the middle.) We Need Less Fog, Not More We are starting to see reviews of these products. Unfortunately, it seemed to me looking over the reviews that