Alpha Cooler

[Joe Six Pack]

HI there:

I just installed an ALPHA cooler for my p3-450 and all I have to say is WOW!!!! As far as the sensor on the board the temps went down approx. 16°C without any software cooling. The CPU is running at a nice cool 33°C with case temp of 30°C. It’s a little noisier then the old fan but a lot cooler. I have it overclocked to 558Mhz without any hiccups and now its running nice and cool. I would try to push this CPU higher but alas I only have PC100 Ram and it could not handle the 133Mhz buss speed and I think the TNT2U might get a tad upset also. I wonder if the new VIA chipset motherboards are gonna be any good I think it’s the 133A instead of the 133 chipset. Does anyone know who is going to make boards with the 133A chipset? I was looking at SOYO’s page and I saw a board based on the VIA Apollo 133 chipset but not on the 133. I here you can push the buss to 133MHZ but still run the ram @100MHz is that true?

BTW I picked it up from computernerd
www.computernerd.com/coolsp03.html (http://www.computernerd.com/coolsp03.html)

Joe

[This message has been edited by Joe Six Pack (edited 10-20-1999).]

[alpha]

It may be possable to run at a 100mhz RAM speed (asynchronous) because my Chaintech CT-5AGM2 mainboard can run at a 100mhz FSB with a 66mhz RAM clock. I think A-OPEN do 133mhz Apollo boards. (I think it's the AX63) /forum/smile.gif

[KillerBug]

The whole reason ram runs at the same speed is because if it does not, it goes real slow.