Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz: The clock strikes two

The Board & Cooling

We tested on ABIT’s TH7-II RAID, their Socket-478 i850 based Pentium 4 motherboard.  The board has a very flexible SoftMenu III Jumperless setup to configure the CPU, memory and FSB settings.  Unfortunately with all retail/OEM Pentium 4 CPUs shipping in a clock locked state; there isn’t much configuration necessary.  The board ran fine during our test period but we will continue to test it and report on any problems that do arise.

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We used a GlacialTech Igloo 4300 cooler for our tests. The fan was relatively loud compared to Intel's retail heatsink/fan combo but it did the job. The 4300's attachment mechanism was superior that which was on Intel's retail heatsink.