Cooling and overclocking links

These are some of the sites that I've found useful for my project.

The Heatsink-Guide

Useful general purpose cooling information.

BXBoards

Information on motherboards and processors, with particular stress on overclocking.  There is also information on how to identify who made your RAM.

Abit

The makers of probably the best overclocking motherboard available -- the Abit BH6.  It has user selectable everything; base frequency, multiplier, voltage, and AGP multiplier, all of which can be picked from a menu; no taping pins to change voltage or anything like that.  And, of course, it has the most important thing of all.  It lets you tell your early generation 100 MHz FSB Pentium II (any PII 350 or 400 made before August 19^th) that it's running on 66 MHz FSB so that you can have the full range of multipliers.  This feature is unique, and for those that can make use of it (like me!) it opens up a whole host of new overclocking options.

www.Overclockers.com

A site about overclocking; it has some useful articles about cooling, and a database of known-good batches of CPUs.

How to open the Pentium II cartridge

It's not easy, but this site should help you open the blasted SEC that encloses your Pentium II.

MECI

An electrical surplus shop.  Do a search for thermoelectric coolers; you should be able to get a 50 W peltier for about $15.  Wow.

Kryotech

Kryotech use vapour-phase refrigeration, instead of peltiers, and sell overclocked systems.  They're rather expensive, and don't seem to be especialy overclocked, though they sell overclocked Alpha systems which are quite fast.  Vapour-phase is probably rather too difficult for me to make, but their site has the odd snippet of useful information, amongst all the marketing bull-shit.

Intel

The people who make this all possible by having ridiculously high yields of their processor cores.  There is a lot of information on the Intel site; however, it's not always easy to find, and it normally involves downloading mammoth .pdf files.  So you may need to get Adobe Acrobat.

Samsung Semiconductors

This is the division of Samsung that is responsible for making RAM.  This site lets you find out the statistics of Samsung RAM, and will identify your RAM if has Samsung chips on them.  My RAM is made by Samsung, but is rather old (6 months) and probably not fast enough for my purposes.  They also make some excellent 8 ns stuff.

Melcor

Makers of peltier-effect coolers.  I believe that they have a minimum order, of about $100.

Marlow

More peltier coolers, but cheaper in the UK than Melcor coolers.  I don't suppose their products are that different, but Marlow are much cheaper than similar Melcor ones in this country.