what does 90nm mean?

[tealk]

What does 90nm mean, vs the 1.3 one? On the AMD 64 CPU...u guys know what I mean.

 

[phaxmohdem]

It is the meaning of life. If I told you, I'd have to kill you.

 

[phaxmohdem]

90mm = smaller die = less heat = less power consumption = more overclocking goodness

 

[tealk]

So I got a 0.13, 3500+. That would be not as good for overclocking then the 90nm?

 

[phaxmohdem]

most likely not. My FX-51 is .13 and it tops out at 2.43 stable. But you could get lucky with some good RAM and cooling who knows.

 

[tealk]

Ram is 1GB of Kingston Value pc3200 2 X 512mb. I havent decided on the cooling yet, any suggestions? What you think about the ram aswell?

 

[phaxmohdem]

HMM Ram may work, you will just have to tests its limits. OCZ makes some pretty good stuff that is still affordable. As for cooling I use the coolermaster aquagate Mini R120 I wrote a review of that here:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=28&threadid=1629309&enterthread=y

A good copper heatsink may work just fine for you though. I used to have a Thermaltake Silent Boost K8 and it was OK, Zalman makes a killer copper heatsink that works for overclocking, and you may want to checkout a Thermalright XP-90 or XP120

 

[tealk]

Yeah i'm not so interested in the water cooling....the copper Zalman sounds good...I think i saw it on newegg once.

 

[phaxmohdem]

Yeah this bad boy would kick some azz:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835118115

however You will have to make sure your CPU socket isn't too close to your graphics card. That sucker is a little wide.

 

[phaxmohdem]

This one would be just as good or better with a nice Panaflo or Vantec fan atop:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835109122