BipolarBill
07-17-2002, 02:32 PM
I finally have everything in sync and functioning. Sure enough, I had fried 3 CPUs in this MSI KT3. The Thermalright, on closer examination, leaves no slack on installation. When you push the heat sink down beyond the socket "step", it falls in and is immediately up against the clip on the other side. There is no wiggle room at all. No wonder I fried those CPUs! I thought the HSF was in, but it was angled up and not in contact with the die at all.
I put an old 4500RPM Global Win 60mm fan on the Thermalright. It's actually rather quiet and maintains the CPU temp at 45-50C. Apparently, 4500PRM is the "sweet spot" - good cooling and acceptable noise. The 4 CoolerMaster case fans are pretty quiet too.
I installed XP Pro and Win2K on the RAID array and the system is impressively fast. It would be unfair to compare it to my P3 1.2G for obvious reasons, but it is much quicker at first blush. There's very little load on the AMD system now though. The P3 is my workhorse.
Now - should I migrate my main system to the AMD or work it in as a gaming machine? Hmmm....tough questions now!
I put an old 4500RPM Global Win 60mm fan on the Thermalright. It's actually rather quiet and maintains the CPU temp at 45-50C. Apparently, 4500PRM is the "sweet spot" - good cooling and acceptable noise. The 4 CoolerMaster case fans are pretty quiet too.
I installed XP Pro and Win2K on the RAID array and the system is impressively fast. It would be unfair to compare it to my P3 1.2G for obvious reasons, but it is much quicker at first blush. There's very little load on the AMD system now though. The P3 is my workhorse.
Now - should I migrate my main system to the AMD or work it in as a gaming machine? Hmmm....tough questions now!