Peltiers for T-Bird

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When the computer first boots, the CPU's temp is the same as the ambient. If heat is a limiting factor, it will only become obvious within a number of minutes or hours, when the CPU's temp climbs. Extreme cooling takes care of the extra heat produced by extreme overclocking that makes it past the boot, but creates lots of heat.
I can't really explain your results, but I don't find it logical that different types of cooling make any difference in the first seconds after powering on, since all the components are cool.
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Colt is right. Until I started water cooling, I couldn't post 1200, now with water cooling I can run stable at 1236. Coincidence? I don't think so.

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Modded 300watt Tornado 1000
A7V/ Razor Boomslang 2000
AMD T-Bird 1000 Mhz@ 1236 Mhz (12x103)
Cooling: Water
384mb Mushkin pc133@143
Elsa Gladiac GTS 2
WD ATA 66 20GB, Maxtor plus 30GB
Plextor12/10/32A
Toshiba DVD 12/40
SBLIVE! X-Gamer
3com Gaming Modem
3com 10/100 Nic
Win2k Pro/Win98 Dual Boot

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I would think the silverado is second best.
Also the CPU heats up pretty fast so if you can't boot it could be because of cooling and not the limit to processor speed.