An honest and sincere chronicle regarding technical simplicity and the true value—not only of the classics but of everything around us—which, on this global website, I call the "Hall of Fame of Everything": Protons, Electrons, and Neutrons..
I am not a Freemason, but I believe in the number 3. Good things come in threes. Born in Barcelona—area code 93. My WhatsApp number (inherited from the Taxi Mercedes dispatch service I used to manage) is 933333333. The accident that left me clinically dead for just over a week happened on December 12, 1993—I don't know... there are so many coincidences: the 33 victories Fernando Alonso is chasing, the 3 songs I composed for him (the last one is titled Circuitos de Ajedrez / Chess Circuits).
.This demonstrates that what is labeled "complex" or "obsolete"—depending on who is doing the labeling—often masks commercial interests; meanwhile, elements from the past are far simpler, more transparent, and superior to what is sold to us today.
For instance, the power supply used is a "Made in USA" PC Power and Cooling unit—none of that "Made in China" stuff. It is the first version of the 750W Silencer, which delivered all its power via a single 12V rail. I won't go into technical details, but nothing available today matches it.
The heatsink is a limited edition of just 1,000 units manufactured by Thermalright (the American company, not the Asian Thermaltake). Back then, copper was—let's say—affordable enough to use for manufacturing, albeit in limited runs. The heatsink I used weighs 2 kg and is made of pure copper; it’s not the "stylish copper" finish some brands sell; You always have to check the manufacturer's website or documentation. Many YouTubers say "copper," but fail to realize that the parts are—let's say—plated or painted to look like copper. The heatsink I use is the "1000" model; it differs from the next one up (the "3000") by having six tracks—or fins, if you will—with three on each side to progressively conduct heat away (whereas the "3000" unit had four fins).
Of course, the CPU has to be the 631, specifically the latest variant—the D0—which had a thermal design power (at medium load) of 65W (TDP = 65), matching the 65-nanometer manufacturing process. They were going to be called Pentium V; in fact, motherboard manufacturers used to label boards that supported these 65nm Pentiums (as opposed to the 90nm and 130nm versions) as "P5"—take the Asus P5E, for example...
Detailed detail of the test bench, in English the "setup".
It took about three months. That doesn't mean I learned everything in three months; experience counts for a lot.
The patient work of trial and error—discarding dead ends and understanding how the silicon responds before reaching the final result—involves steps such as (to cite a few examples):
* Experimenting with modifying socket pins; experts know that some socket pins are redundant—included in case a specific pin fails to carry enough voltage—so you can "trick" the motherboard into drawing more voltage through the other pins. These are just practices that, in my case, resulted in rendering one of the two Asus Maximus Extreme boards I own useless (incidentally, the first ROG series—the ones measuring 30 cm on one side instead of 27).
Perhaps it was the invocation—on one hand of the "master" and on the other of its reverse order—that marked the key moment when everything fell into place during just thirty minutes of perfect synchronization.
I’ll summarize—to keep it brief—what I emailed to the CPU-Z developer under the subject line "PROCEDURE" (a message to which I have yet to receive a reply).
Resources, data, and references provided so that anyone interested can study, verify, or replicate the experiment with complete transparency and simplicity.
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