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Fuel Pump Water Pump

SUMMARY: The fuel pump I bought uses a pulsating flow which shakes everything – Not Acceptable for CPU cooling. I have received a number of emails asking about using a fuel pump for water cooling, so I bought one to

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SUMMARY: The following displays heatsinks that recently tested at C/Ws of 0.30 or less. This is what we consider a reasonable target for for aggressive CPU cooling. The results are the average of motherboard tests; in most cases, these are

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Events of the Year

This one ended up as a tie on top, and a lot of events got votes. The two events you voted for most were Intel screwing up and 3dfx going down. Right behind it was Rambus’ stumbles. I think the

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Product of the Year

Sometimes, the little shrimp wins. It was close, but the Duron pulled it out in the end and won your Product of the Year Award. Right behind it was its big brother, the AMD Thunderbird. A very solid third was

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Overclocking Without Alphas

As many of the non-US residents that browse thru these pages, I was drooling and crying on just how easy it is for these people to get extra performance from the cheapest CPUs by adding this and that cooler, waterblock,

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KA7 and USB

I have seen a lot of posts in “alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit” where people are having problems getting the USB ports to work reliably. (mainly on KT7s) I was having a similiar problem with my KA7-100, but only at bus speeds over 112Mhz.

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More Multiple PSUs

In regards to your posting about connecting 2 PSUs together, I have tried this, and was unsuccessful due to timing variations between the 2 PSUs. Sometimes the primary would power up, but not the secondary. Worse, and more frequently, the

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Military Mousepads

I noticed the ceramic tile mouse pad and my friends and I use something better, cardboard. Not just regular cardboard but some really, and I mean really strong stuff from the boxes that hold military rations, MRE’s. I have mine