Slot 1 P3-700 @ 1.12GHz

Company: PCNut
Product: Slot 1 P3-700 pretested  @ 933+
PCNut Price: $215.00
Date Reviewed: January 26, 2001
Reviewed By: Jason

Temperatures:

One of my readers had a question about how hot a CPU gets when you overclock it. I was pretty curious myself since I never did any real comparison between overclocked & non-overclocked temperatures. So I decided to run some and include them in this review. For readings I used an external thermistor probe that I taped down touching the top side of the CPU, I also used the internal P3 temperature diode, and last is a temperature readout from a probe mounted on the surface of the motherboard.

Ambient temperature was 81F the whole time. Yes I know that's warm, but my A/C is broken and the apt. complex office is closed.

So, as you can see when the CPU was idle everything was just about room temperature. But under full load, the CPU temp increased only marginally under increased voltage & speed. However keep in mind that there is the big Alpha P3125 keeping this beast cool, which is at least double (if not more) the mass of a regular socket heatsink, and two fans to boot. Also, this is a cC0 core which is a smaller size so I'm guessing it generates less heat too. (I would be interested to hear what people have to say about that, does core size really matter even though they are all .18 micron?)

Conclusion:

I'm loving my new P3 @ 1.12GHz! The PCNut combo deal can be found HERE, they are currently $215, and that includes the CPU (obviously), a quality Vantec dual fan heatsink, and preapplied arctic silver compound. One of the things I really like about this upgrade path is that I don't need a new motherboard, or a bigger power supply, which I would need if I chose to upgrade to an AMD system. Even though this Antec is rated at 300w, it's amperage ratings would put it more with the 250w power supplies that I have seen, which just goes to show that this CPU doesn't require gobs of power.

I was shocked to see that I could run at 933Mhz (133FSB) at the default voltage, that's almost insane!

Once again I would like to point out that if you plan on getting on of these OC Combos from PCNut be sure that your system can run at least 133FSB (most modern boards can), and if you plan to do some heavy overclocking, make sure you have good quality ram & video card. PCNut has the latest Mushkin High Perf. Rev 3 memory, which I've had a reader send me a pic showing it running stable @ 170MHz 3-3-3! I would also recommend a GeForce2 based video card, they handle the high AGP speeds without any problems, and they give excellent performance.

Pro's:
Pretested to 933MHz+
Latest cC0 stepping
Includes HSF & preapplied arctic silver
Slot 1 CPU allows bigger heatsink than a S370 CPU on a Slotket

Con's:
Must have a Slot 1 motherboard

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