Cooling the Chip
The first thing that we noticed when the 1GHz CPUs came in from AMD and Intel was the size of the heatsinks that were present on the CPUs. The 1.13GHz Pentium III makes use of an ever bigger heatsink and for the first time, the retail boxed heatsink/fan combo makes use of two fans as you’ll see in the pictures below.
This is the heatsink our 1GHz Pentium III came outfitted with:
In comparison we have the 1GHz Athlon we received earlier this year:
Now we have the 1.13GHz Pentium III:
And for comparison we put the retail boxed 1.13GHz Pentium III next to an OEM Pentium III 733 that uses a heatsink/fan which is slightly larger than the retail 733MHz heatsink:
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