Alpha PEP66T

For temperature testing I used a combination of the motherboards BIOS readings, Sisoft sandra 2001 Pro, and MBM 4.17 and MBM 5 to try to get the most accurate readings possible. I could not fit a thermal diode between the Alpha heatsink and the CPU or I would've done that and attached a thermal sensor right to the side of the cpu die. But let's be realistic about temps for a minute. We've all seen reviews where they show us temps taking from all over the place ( the cpu,the vid card, the room temp, the outside temp, the neighbors temp, your car engines temp, the temp in Hawaii,the temp water boils...all to try to overly sientific. Who really cares? not me...Here's my philosophy about temps. I remember before I started overclocking my CPU, I had a stock P3 550 katmai with a stock retail HSF on it. The first time I ran Seti@home , or was gaming for awhile and checked my cpu temps, It was like 59*C...WHOA! That was totally stock! The way Intel wanted it to run.And it never crashed due to heat problems. A factory CPU is made to run up to ungodly temps (65*C-70*C or so) before it fries. So I think if a good aftermarket heatsink can get full load temps anything under 50*C thats pretty good. Under 40*C is fantastic.I dunno, but that's my opinion. I'm not a number freak when it comes to temps. It's either cool enough or it's not =) So, I'm doing all these numbers to please all the number guys out there =)