Written
: 8/28/99
Written by:
Moto Racer®
&
Andrew Mellenger
The Challenge
A week ago I bought a new setup for my home computer. The
system was based on an Abit BP6, 2 retail boxed 366 Celerons (week 14), 256 megs
of RAM, etc.etc.
After a bunch of fiddling with different
operating systems I finally settled on Windows 2000 Beta 3. I immediately began
tweaking. First I raised the core voltage and bus speed through the easy to use
Abit Soft Menu II located in the BIOS, upping to the magical 550Mhz level. I sat
back, “that was too easy,” I told myself. “I thought tweaking and overclocking
were supposed to be difficult.”
I scoured the web, looking for something
new to try. I found two things. A
review of the Global Win FDP-32 (Alpha Killer) by The Tech Zone, and an
article on
lapping your CPU by AGN Hardware.
I’m a warm blooded Canadian with desires
like any other man in his mid-twenties so I figured I’d do both. The Tech Zone
review clearly states that the FDP32 does not fit an Abit BP6 motherboard and
they are right. But, hey, I've never let that stop me before. :)
Before we begin, you might want to know
why you would want to lap a CPU. It's very simple really. The CPU "slug" on the
Celerons that Intel ships are not perfectly flat. That means that there will be
air gaps between the CPU and heatsink, making the transfer of heat to the
heatsink less effective. By lapping the CPU flat, we reduce the air gap and
increase the effectiveness of our heatsink.
Before we can start lapping however, we
have to make some changes to the big Global Win. The heatsinks are too big for
the Abit motherboard, so we're going to have to do some "hacking".
Oh - before I forget. If you want to
copy this stuff, do so at your own risk. You destroy your CPUs or heatsinks,
don't blame me!
Next page: A hacking we will go
