Chip-Con Prometeia Cooling System

AMD Test System

We overclocked the Duron 1Ghz to 1.6GHz without any problems at all. Limitations of the overclockability of the SOYO Dragon Ultra board didn’t allow us to proceed any further without having stability issues. Nevertheless 1.6GHz for a 1GHz Duron is quite impressive. At idle the temperature was reading around -30C while at full operating level it went down to around -25C. We’re still dealing with minus temperatures as opposed to the high temperatures we would see in a vapochil system. After looking at some performance comparisons the Vapochill system is no where close to the cooling performance given by Prometeia. Head over to Hardwaretestdk.com and check out their new review where they do a head to head comparison of the Prometeia system and the Vapochill.

Quake 3 and 3D Mark 2001SE show some excellent scores for a Duron 1GHz for sure. (Of course it’s running at 1.6GHz). If you are able to overclock the CPU even further, which I know you can provided a good mainboard is used; you’ll see 3D Mark scores ranging over the 10,000 mark at low resolutions.

Intel Test System

We managed to get the CPU running at 3146 MHz (22 * 143) without any problems. However going beyond this mark resulted in the VGA card crashing, but if you have a mainboard where you can adjust the PCI/AGP bridge ratios, then I’m sure you’d be able to go beyond this mark. Nevertheless 3 GHz is still a very impressive mark to achieve and the CPU core was around -16C to -18C. It’s just amazing to see these “cool” temperatures after having gone through air cooling all these years.