TNT
on a Pentium III 600E@800? by
Dean
+ TNT = Fast?
Now that is one equation
that made me think. I remember seeing a familiar article at
HardOCP wherein a Pentium III
500E or a 550E was made to run at least 800mhz and a Diamond Viper
V550 RIVA TNT was used. I can't really remember the scores but
it proved that the TNT needed more CPU horsepower to be fast at low
resolutions.
Enter the CopperMine
The Pentium III Katmai
variant was being slaughtered by similarly clocked AMD Athlons so
Intel came up with their new weapon named "CopperMine." So what
is the main difference of the Katmai and the Coppermine?
- .18 Micron for Coppermine
and .25 Micron for Katmai
- 256K on-die L2 Cache
on Coppermine and 512K off-die L2 Cache on Katmai
Those are the 2 main factors
that differentiate the Katmai from the Coppermine.
What kind of a CopperMine
do we have?
Well...it's not my system
but it belongs to my brother. He purchased a Pentium III 600E
(FC-PGA) and quickly slacked it onto an MSI 6905 Slocket and put it
in his Soyo 6BA+III.
So like I said...it's
a 600E but he never ran it at that speed...
He overclocked it?
Hell yeah...nobody would
downclock his CopperMine. Hitting 800mhz (6X133) on this baby
was as easy doing 1+1. No fancy cooling needed and no expensive
slocket used. Just the retail Intel heatsink/fan plus a cheap
yet effective MSI slocket.
I
know what you wanna see...
