What on earth is the heatsink behind the voodoo core?

doaks80 wrote:

What on earth is the heatsink behind the voodoo core?

Small copper heatsink for the backside of the VSA-100 chip, fit 100%. Better cooling and longer life. The card also works fine with 183MHz, higher not tested and I do not want to do it.

NostalgicAslinger wrote:

doaks80 wrote:

What on earth is the heatsink behind the voodoo core?

Small copper heatsink for the backside of the VSA-100 chip, fit 100%. Better cooling and longer life. The card also works fine with 183MHz, higher not tested and I do not want to do it.

Yeah i get that, i do the same thing....i mean the long copper strands....where did you get one like that?

doaks80 wrote:

Yeah i get that, i do the same thing....i mean the long copper strands....where did you get one like that?

Enzotech BMR-C1 BGA RAM heat sinks:

Damn...wish I knew about them before I sinked up my V5...not cheap but I guess they are worth it.

KX133 chipset supports SDRAM Bank Interleaving, has potential to work a little faster with two modules.
https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/kx133-kt … y-tweak.423179/
worked great on KT133, but I seem to remember problems on slot A platforms at the time.

rasz_pl wrote:

KX133 chipset supports SDRAM Bank Interleaving, has potential to work a little faster with two modules.
https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/kx133-kt … y-tweak.423179/
worked great on KT133, but I seem to remember problems on slot A platforms at the time.

Yes, I know, 4 way is activated in the bios and also wpcredit says, that this feature is active. Runs without any problems.
I am using this 512MB high quality memory stick. Also does 150MHz with the best timings! The Asus K7V-T is also one of the fastest VIA KX133 Mainboards. Faster than the Epox 7KXA, that I have used before.

Nice. I do like a good Slot 1 Athlon system, I have a pluto 800MHz, Thunderbird 700MHz and somehow seem to have collected quite a few 500/550 MHz too...

For some reason I can't get my Irongate motherboard to work with the Thunderbird CPU (despite being on the latest BIOS). These boards were some of the few that would support Slot 1 Tbirds 🙁

Almoststew1990 wrote:

Nice. I do like a good Slot 1 Athlon system, I have a pluto 800MHz, Thunderbird 700MHz and somehow seem to have collected quite a few 500/550 MHz too...

For some reason I can't get my Irongate motherboard to work with the Thunderbird CPU (despite being on the latest BIOS). These boards were some of the few that would support Slot 1 Tbirds 🙁

The K7V-T is the only KX133 mainboard with official Thunderbird CPU support. My Epox 7KXA KX133 works with T-Bird CPUs, but with max. 800MHz. There was never a official T-Bird CPU support for the KX133 chipset, but most of the boards will work with this core, but with max. ~800MHz. A Orion 1Ghz always works.

With a 1 GHz T-Bird you need luck to find one, I had problems with the Epox, here is a thread, that's why I have changed the mainboard: AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1000 MHz Slot A and Epox 7KXA Rev. 0.4 VIA KX133 stability problems

NostalgicAslinger wrote:

rasz_pl wrote:

KX133 chipset supports SDRAM Bank Interleaving, has potential to work a little faster with two modules.
https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/kx133-kt … y-tweak.423179/
worked great on KT133, but I seem to remember problems on slot A platforms at the time.

Yes, I know, 4 way is activated in the bios and also wpcredit says, that this feature is active.

does it make a difference with only one module? I always assumed it needed a pair
EDIT: doh, its right in the name, bank interleaving, it works with one module 😀 /slaps himself

Yes, the performance is much better. Wpcredit is a good tool,. At here, you can enable it, if the bios doesen't let you enable this feature.

Be careful to the small capacitor between the cpu-cooler and the ram sockets, directly under the fan header.

It is looking even worse than the other's what i can see on your pictures.
It's worth to replace it. 😉

Very nice. I've never seen a 1Ghz Slot A T-Bird in person though I do have a couple 900Mhz ones that I rescued from being thrown out over 10 years ago.

melbar wrote:

Be careful to the small capacitor between the cpu-cooler and the ram sockets, directly under the fan header.

It is looking even worse than the other's what i can see on your pictures.
It's worth to replace it. 😉

Ok, one capasitor looks like he has a bumb on the pictures, but looks ok. Only a optical Ilusion. Here is a better picture of the mainboard. Made a few days earlier, before I changed the Epox 7KXA in the case.

cyclone3d wrote:

Very nice. I've never seen a 1Ghz Slot A T-Bird in person though I do have a couple 900Mhz ones that I rescued from being thrown out over 10 years ago.

The 900 MHz version should easy do 1GHz with a Goldfinger Device. 😀