What are you talking about, 'barely came out of the power supply debaucle unscathed'? If they came out unscathed, what's the problem?!I'm assuming you mean that there's problems with Athlons and power supplys. Well you're wrong. If you've studied ancient history (aparently you have), you'd see that the first Althons that came out DID have power supply problems(last year), with their .25 micron proccess and AMD 'Fester' reference design motherboards.. But that changed very very quickly.
If you'll remember the first Geforce cards _also_ had some power supply problems with a lot of mobo's not getting them enough current, but you dont see Nvidia anywhere near a slump right now.
The new Athlons(Thunderbirds/Durons with .18 micron dies) and all the new Socket A mobo's will have absolutely NO problem running on the generic 250watt power supply that comes in your ฮ mid tower ATX case.
Those are viscous rumors spread by unscrupulous zealots in the Intel camp...
So you have a PIII 800 clocked up to 912??
That's what? a 14\% overclock? dont make me laugh!
My Duron 650 is running at 909mhz just as stable as your Intel chip for a 40\% overclock!
And guess what? My cpu cost me ๋ dollars!
While your monster p3 cost around 赼.
you do the math
now on to fatbitches question(sorry if i sound gruff, but if there's one thing I cannot STAND, it's disinformation!):
Have you upped the core voltage on the cpu yet? You should be able to do about 1 gigahertz with the chip, depending if you have copper interconnects(made in dresden) or aluminum (made in austin).
Could you post a link to the heatsink you're using, or tell me which one.
Make SURe you have thermal goop installed on the cpu/heatsink instead of the crappy tape that most HSF manufacturers use.
Also get a program like Motherboard Monitor to check your CPU temperature, thats the best way to make sure you wont hurt anything. keep it below 50-55 centigrade on full load and everything will be alright
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aventari
"If we can't fix it -- we'll fix it so nobody can." -- B. Gibbons
of a close up of the cpu, so even if someone could open up paint and draw where i need to connect :-)