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To: Joe NYC who wrote (86099)	7/30/2002 10:10:10 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: Everything else runs just fine with the CPU I have I was in pretty much the same boat. I've been running a Thunderbird 1400 for a while. I mostly wanted to experiment some with the Thoroughbred. There was all that BullSh*t coming from various web sites that the chip was too small to cool easily and I wanted to see how bad it was. I even picked up some mica and dual coolers for it and planned to mount a second heatsink/fan on the bottom of the board. As it turns out, this is the coolest running chip I've seen since the days of the PIII/K6-2. Part of that may be because cooling technology has gotten better (the OCZ Goliath SE is great compromise between quiet and cooling). A friend is going to buy the other new heatsink/fan (a coolermaster HC-001, which made the chip run even cooler, but was noisy) and I guess I'll save the mica in case some horrible twist of fate saddles me with a P4 (which needs all the cooling help it can get, due to it's narrow thermal envelope). I had been running a 1.4 in an old P4 style blowhole case, with a 431w power supply and it was pretty noisy. The Thoroughbred is in a conventional case (an old Aopen tower, with an old sparkle FSP-300 PS. I was a little worried that the old case/PS wouldn't cut it, but it's been absolutely fine. That case previously held an Athlon 800 on a SiS 730S board from the very first batch of those boards to ship (it has no AGP slot). I've already dropped the voltage on the Thoroughbred to 1.55v at full speed. It runs 43 to 43.5C most of the time with a 3500RPM fan. The next step was going to be to under clock it and try to drop the voltage further. But it's already so quiet that there isn't much point to it. At this point, the power supply is making most of the noise, and it's a fairly quiet, though not exceptionally quiet, power supply. Thoroughbred is a much better chip than it's getting reviewed as, it's a real step forward for AMD, and will let AMD compete with P4 until next year, when AthlonXP-64 hammers Intel flat.