Cooling of L1/L2 chache on CPU

[error_911]

Just read a watercooling article (can't remember where tho) and the person had built themselves a waterblock for their Slot mount P3, with an added plate to cool down the cache... Didn't quite hit me till now, but would that be any good on an athlon? Whats the advantages if anyone can think of any..?

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[Lonemagi]

Im guessing you mean a slot A athon "classic"? I guess it would help, but it wouldnt do as good as a tbird with the on-die cashe.

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[jclw]

I think all Athlons have/had on die cache so you can't cool it seperately.

The katmai PIIIs had external L2 cache chips which were often the overclocking holdup. By cooling the chips you could push them a little faster.

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[Lonemagi]

... and IIRC, danger den sold a slot A watercooling kit that had a waterblock for the memory.

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[error_911]

yeah, a slot a athlon or a P2 slot 1 (i'm gettin one free soon and i was thinkin..), but thanks for the info

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[error_911]

hmm, thanks for the info dude

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[Lonemagi]

The original athlons slot a's had seperate 512kb of L2 cashe, which was a hamper on overclocking efforts. I had a 900mhz one that I got running at just over 900 (9x110), but it was never stable. Later on in the slot athlon series, AMD had mounted some of the higher tbirds onto these slot cards, and they were mainly availible to OEMs like Dell and Compaq.
With those, one of the main things you have to watch for is what speed t-bird your mobo will run with. many mobo's would run up to a 1000mhz athlon "classic" (which is very hard to find), but would only run an 850mhz thunderbird.

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[svol]

I think thjat can be of great for helping OC'ing. Cache tends to get very hot so extra cooling is always welcome. Lucky enough they have the cache on-die nowadays.

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dims when I turn it on 😱