I need to know the temps of your Northwood 1.6a's

[NewportMan]

Yes these 1.6a's are too good to be true. 2.32ghz, 1.6v, 145fsb, 36 idle 42 load (20 ~ 30 loops of sandra's burn in wizard). Quiet was my main reason for the second rig. The hoovercraft setup to cool my XP (1600 clocked to 1900, 120mm side blowhole, four exhaust fans, etc.) just became annoying. I am still a big AMD fan as their low prices allowed me to reach speeds/performance that price wise I wouldn't have been able to attain for another year. And the actual perfomance increase is neglible as far as what I've experienced just using the P4 machine. But it's nice to be able to hear the tv again. And this ABIT board rocks, only drawback is no ddr voltage adjustment.

1.6a @ 2.32
1.6v
stock HSF and pad ( yeah no artic silver so far)
don't know malay or costa
256megs generic ddr running 145 cas 2.5
30g WD hd
GeForce2 GTS 32meg
generic NIC, Modem
Abit SD7-533

 

[Nate420]

All of you P4B266 owners should be using sensor2, not cusl2 in MBM5. The cusl2 settings adds compensation to the temp chip readings, sensor2 does not. With the temp comming from the P4 internal sensor, no need for compensation.

 

[jiffylube1024]

My Northwood 2.4 THz (terrahertz) runs around 4000 degrees C. It's roughly equivalent to the earth's core in temperature. I figure electromigration will kill my CPU in about 3 years, maybe I need more cooling.

 

[WarCon]

How did you manage to get the 1.8gigawatts of power needed to achieve 2.4thz and the cooling system needed to cool it to 4000C from its normal 10000C? Are you playing with cold fusion again?



You know that with the growth in speed of CPU's, a thz isn't really that far off. Didn't the first IBM 8086's run at 4mhz? If that speed increase continues, then thz should be available in around 20 years.

 

[jonnyGURU]

Needless to say, any P4 is going to run cooler than any Athlon. There's nothing wrong with an Athlon 1000 running at 1.33 @ 52C according to my Biostar M7MIA probe.

But, to answer your question... I have a Pentium 4 1.6a running at 2.13 GHz in a Biostar M7SXF that reads 35C at idle and 50C under load with stock cooling. I'm sure an aftermarket heatsink would get me lower temps... but why bother? BTW: Running the RAM asynchronously at 166 MHz for an added kick.

 

[jiffylube1024]

<< You know that with the growth in speed of CPU's, a thz isn't really that far off. Didn't the first IBM 8086's run at 4mhz? If that speed increase continues, then thz should be available in around 20 years >>



Hopefully. At some point we will get to the point where transistors get down to the size of an atom; after that we're going to have to look for new ways to make faster processors.

Scientists are madly looking for superconductors at reasonable (ideal: kryo-cooled) temperatures; that would revolutionize computers as they could increase the clock frequency (hopefully) exponentially.