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Posted: January 13, 2001 Written by: Tuan "Solace" Nguyen Inside the Box  Click for larger image This is a pretty tidy system setup. There’s an intake fan at the front and one exhaust fan at the back plus the power supply fan -- negative pressured air means cooler air. You’re looking at a system with a Creative Labs’ GeForce2 Ultra card, an AMD 100Mbit network card, and a SoundBlaster Live! Value. The motherboard is a MSI K7T-Pro. Let’s take a look at the CPU HSF that is NOT the original shipping one. Forced Air  Click for larger image This is a fan I took out of the Pentium 4 reference system Intel sent and slapped it on a CoolerMaster heatsink designed for the “Thunderbird” Athlon processors. Temperatures using this heatsink ranges from very low 30’s (Celsius) to mid 40’s. I figured this was pretty good cooling so I decided to try it out. Do you notice something about the HSF combo in that picture though? I taped around the heatsink leaving the lower half open and the fan is set to suck air out of the heatsink. Using the tape/suck method, air is forced in from the base of the heatsink -- where it’s hottest -- and removed from the top -- because hot air rises. Let’s take a look at the benchmark system Benchmark System AMD “Thunderbird” Athlon 850MHz (Socket A) AMD Duron 850MHz (Socket A) MSI K7T-Pro 128MB Micron PC133 SDRAM Cas2 Creative Lab’s Annihilator2 Ultra with official Detonator 3 (6.31) IBM GXP75 Ultra100 46GB HD Windows 98 SE SYSMark 2000 800x600 @ 16/32bpps 1024x768 @ 16/32bpps 1280x1024 @ 16/32bpps Quake 3 Arena with Point Release (1.17) Demo 1 & 2: High Quality 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 Unreal Tournament 4.32 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 Let’s get on to how this CPU scores. |
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