By
Harald Thon,
published on May 7, 2003
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: going, mobile | Themes: Business Notebooks
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: going, mobile | Themes: Business Notebooks
Contents
- 1. Low-Voltage Athlon XP-M: The Alternative For Thin And Light Notebooks?
- 2. Pros, Cons And Prices: What The CPUs Offer, And How Much They Cost
- 3. Pros, Cons And Prices: What The CPUs Offer, And How Much They Cost, Continued
- 4. Pros, Cons And Prices: What The CPUs Offer, And How Much They Cost, Continued
- 5. The Test Candidates At A Glance
- 6. The Rivals On The Outside
- 7. The Rivals On The Outside, Continuted
- 8. ... And From The Inside: Elaborate Cooling Systems
- 9. ... And From The Inside: Elaborate Cooling Systems, Continued
- 10. ... And From The Inside: Elaborate Cooling Systems, Continued
- 11. Benchmarks In Windows XP
- 12. Sisoft Sandra 2002 Benchmarks: CPU, Multimedia And Memory
- 13. Sisoft Sandra 2002 Benchmarks: CPU, Multimedia And Memory, Continued
- 14. Multimedia Performance: PC Mark 2002
- 15. Raytracing: POV-Ray For Windows
- 16. MP3 Encoding: Lame
- 17. 3D Performance
- 18. Open GL Games: Quake 3 Arena
- 19. System Performance: Sysmark 2002
- 20. Battery Tests
- 21. Mobile Mark2002
- 22. More on this topic
9. ... And From The Inside: Elaborate Cooling Systems, Continued
Except for the different components, the two machines are set up in exactly the same way. While the processors in both systems are kept at tolerable temperatures by means of sophisticated cooling systems, the Southbridges (Ali M1535+ or ICH 4M) and the Northbridges with their integrated graphics cores (Radeon IGP320M or i855GM) manage without additional cooling.
The processor itself is located underneath a copper cooler with another heat pipe that draws the heat outwards to the cooling fins in front of the ventilator.
Also interesting is a comparison of size between a boxed cooler for a desktop CPU and its counterpart for a LV Athlon XP-M.
Pictured on the left is the boxed cooler of an Athlon XP 2000+; to the right, the cooling system of the LV Athlon XP-M1700+.
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