page 1 of 3 This is going to be a story of a love-hate relationship between the reviewer and a rather exceptional product, VapoChill. Basically, VapoChill is a mini-Air Conditioner for your CPU. In the first stage, a compressor pumps
I’m calling this a first look because the initial prognosis is so disappointing I want a second opinion. The Abit KT7 is supposed to be the chief competitor to the Asus A7V for socket A chips. We got the RAID-less
Over the weekend, I found out the following: AMD has revised its techdocs to remove references to motherboards changing the multipliers. One person claimed that he could not change the multiplier on a recently purchased Duron, but he hasn’t gotten
UPDATE 8/31/00 – Email from Mike: “I just read your update to the Tidal Pool water block article and all I can say is – DUH! I think there’s a WHOLE lot of people out there who don’t remember the
SUMMARY: Overclocked AMD CPUs throw off enough extra heat to defeat all but the best air-cooled heatsinks; the FOP32 is not one of the best. There is a dilemma in the land of heatsinks: AMD’s CPUs are power hungry, heat
After seeing the 2COOL PC+ at the local computer show, my direct comment was something like, “Yeah right, all this thing is gonna’ do is circulate hot air inside the case”. Since I spend some time at Overclockers and other
There’s a report out there saying that AMD has removed the pins on the CPUs that make multiplier adjustments possible. This needs to be first confirmed. Should that be the case, the only hopes for overclocking will be FSB overclocking
UPDATE 8/25/00: A lot of people want to know details on my water pump. I purchased a Rio 180 at Reef Fanatic and it’s 120gph. To mount the water block I’m using zip ties and 2 metal thingies I made
Joe: When I received the GeForce2 MX from NATA Computers, the video out adapter was not an RCA plug; Jim figured out how to adapt the plug shipped with the card to change it to an RCA plug: Here is
AMD Ramping Intel will prance around with their 1.5Ghz Willys, then not make any. AMD will crank out real chips in the next few months. By early next year, the low-end processor may be 1Ghz, about the same as Intel’s
