I swear to God, it seems like at least a few of the guys gave up making doilies and shifted over to overclocking TBirds.
If you're not pushing your machine that hard, your needs are more moderate. I'm not talking to you.
I'm talking about people who want all glory and no inconvenience: the weekend rock climbers who want to climb Mt. Everest, but don't want to bring oxygen because it is "so heavy."
"Oooooh, it's too noisy. Oooooh, it's too heavy. Oooooh, putting thermal grease on again after moving the machine is so messy."
You want heavy-duty action now, you need heavy-duty protection now, and right now, that means a heavy copper heatsink. You're cranking out 100 watts of heat in a half-square inch of CPU area running at 1500MHz at 1.85, and the more extreme folks are punching out more like 150 watts. This is serious business, especially when the average measuring device isn't worth squat. At the edge, it's over four times the heat a PIII puts out at 1GHz.
If you want to run TBirds at 1500-1600MHz or more, like it or not, you're a fireman. The fire doesn't care if you're not wearing protective garb because you thought it was too heavy or unfashionable. It will still burn you.
If you don't want extreme solutions, don't get into extreme situations.
This is a computer, not a dance partner. Poor babies, having to remove their heatsinks when they transport it. If you don't want to chip your nails, buy a PIII. Or an iMac. Or run that TBird at 1Ghz all the time. Or use water.
Or try running that TBird at he-man speeds with a girly-man heatsink and find yourself crashing a lot, and I'd bet in a lot of cases, eventually, it just won't boot one day.
I really think we're going to run into a hell of a lot of heat-related problems in the next few months because people essentially want light-weight condoms, and don't care that the light weight comes from all the holes in them.
If there were something lighter that got the job done, we'd certainly tell you. Down the road, we may see lighter-weight heat pipes, maybe new materials. Right now, you want to go to the edge, it's heavy metal or water. Period. You don't like that, don't go to the edge until when or if there's something more suitable.
If you're not pushing your machine that hard, your needs are more moderate. I'm not talking to you.
I'm talking about people who want all glory and no inconvenience: the weekend rock climbers who want to climb Mt. Everest, but don't want to bring oxygen because it is "so heavy."
"Oooooh, it's too noisy. Oooooh, it's too heavy. Oooooh, putting thermal grease on again after moving the machine is so messy."
You want heavy-duty action now, you need heavy-duty protection now, and right now, that means a heavy copper heatsink. You're cranking out 100 watts of heat in a half-square inch of CPU area running at 1500MHz at 1.85, and the more extreme folks are punching out more like 150 watts. This is serious business, especially when the average measuring device isn't worth squat. At the edge, it's over four times the heat a PIII puts out at 1GHz.
If you want to run TBirds at 1500-1600MHz or more, like it or not, you're a fireman. The fire doesn't care if you're not wearing protective garb because you thought it was too heavy or unfashionable. It will still burn you.
If you don't want extreme solutions, don't get into extreme situations.
This is a computer, not a dance partner. Poor babies, having to remove their heatsinks when they transport it. If you don't want to chip your nails, buy a PIII. Or an iMac. Or run that TBird at 1Ghz all the time. Or use water.
Or try running that TBird at he-man speeds with a girly-man heatsink and find yourself crashing a lot, and I'd bet in a lot of cases, eventually, it just won't boot one day.
I really think we're going to run into a hell of a lot of heat-related problems in the next few months because people essentially want light-weight condoms, and don't care that the light weight comes from all the holes in them.
If there were something lighter that got the job done, we'd certainly tell you. Down the road, we may see lighter-weight heat pipes, maybe new materials. Right now, you want to go to the edge, it's heavy metal or water. Period. You don't like that, don't go to the edge until when or if there's something more suitable.
