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capper5016 wrote:Brian, it is the SI-97. Sorry i didn't post that earlier, totally slipped my mind
Thanks! That's what I thought it was. I see it's available on one website that overclockers.com lists, but that's about to the extent of where I've found it for sale so far. $35 though! Fan not included!
I'll give it a bit, see if more people sell it for cheaper. VERY interesting design for a heatsink though. What's up w/ the tubes? Is that for airflow or to dissipate heat?
try looking at maxcooler.com some times the have them for less than heatsinkfactory. but like most thermalright products they are expensive no matter how you do it.
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those tubes are actually sealed, inside they have water vapor. It called "heatpipe" technology, and it has become quite popular for the air cooled crowd. As you system produces heat, the water vapor in the heatpipes, evaporates, rising to the top of the heatpipe where its cooled, it then becomes heavier, sinking back to the base, ciooling it, a very old concept, but one that works very well.
I was thinkin bout upgrading my cpu from a thoroughbred to a barton 3200+. I'm running stuff on a thermaltake II watercooling system. The cpu is overclocked at 11x210 and running at 1.80v. I'm running on a a7n8x deluxe and have a 6600gt with 1 gb twinmos pc3200 dual channel kit. Is it worth upgrading to the 3200? Help me.
honestly bumping up to a 3200+ SKT A would not give you much of a performance bump If you really want to see some difference try looking at a budget a46 rig, for the price of making your current system top of the line, you could get entry level a64 and have the same if not better performance.
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Black Mesa Scientist wrote:A barton 3200+ over a 2600 thourough should make some difference shouldnt it?
I agree with infinitevalence, it's not gonna be a huge improvement. You'll get an extra 200mhz or so on the clock speed and get a 200mhz fsb instead of 166mhz, but you are still on socket A Barton architecture. AMD doesn't even make socket A processors anymore!
I say you save the money you would invest in the Barton 3200 until you have enough for a budget Athlon64 system (either s754 or s939, but s939 would be the better). It might be more time until you can upgrade, but you would get MUCH better performance and have a platform that is much more future proof and has much more support.
NAiLs wrote:ouch! this thread has been bumped so many times!
I bought a laptop instead of a CPU for my desktop! Desktop machine hasn't been used in a year, other than turning it on to print stuff from my laptop.
HAHA, that's awesome. What lappy did you get?
I've got my Inspiron 9100 (AKA The XPS). I've upgraded some parts obviously..
2.8GHz P4 w/ HT
2GB PC3200 DDR (Dual Channel Enabled)
60GB 5400 RPM HDD
64MB Mobility Radeon 9700 (Shared Memory... workes like a champ with the 2GB of RAM though)
8x?? DVD-RW/CD-RW <-- Unsure on the speed as my Fujifilm DVD-R's only write at 2.4x even though they're advertised as 8x. I know it can write 4x for sure but I've seen some with 8x I believe
15.4" WXGA Screen
802.11b/g MiniPCI Card
SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook PCMCIA Card
I wish I had the cash to upgrade to atleast the Mobility 9800, but they sell for way too much on EBay. Tight laptop for being a little over a year old now. Next laptop will definitely be a mobile CPU and be a decked out machine again!
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Fan not included! 
If you really want to see some difference try looking at a budget a46 rig, for the price of making your current system top of the line, you could get entry level a64 and have the same if not better performance.
Desktop machine hasn't been used in a year, other than turning it on to print stuff from my laptop.
