After contacting Swiftech's founder, Gabriel Rouchon, we began a relationship to educate both our staff, and our readers regarding the benefits of actively cooling overclocked CPUs.

Rouchon has been designing and selling advanced Peltier-driven CPU cooling solutions for the past year, offering some of the most exotic coolers available today at competitive prices.

Sharky Extreme had been gravitating to actively cooling Intel P3 and Celeron CPUs through our experiences over the past twelve months with various AMD-only based overclocked PCs from KryoTech (www.kryotech.com).

KryoTech markets PCs that are set to operate safely at a speed that's over 150MHz faster than the CPU's stock level, using an active cooling technique that can lower the CPU's temperature to a -40 degrees C.

Unfortunately, the KryoTech process is not applicable (without voiding the machine's warranty) for use with Intel-based Pentium III and Celeron CPUs, and even the AMD-only cooling hardware tends to add approximately $700 - $1,000 to the total PC's price when purchased.

In talking with Swiftech, it turned out they offered just what we had in mind when we began searching for Peltier CPU coolers, which is a product that can achieve a temperature reduction of approximately 50% to 60% of the KryoTech unit's potential, at only 15% of the KryoTech's cost.

Named the "MC1000" the Swiftech Peltier-cooler was adaptable to Pentium III, Celeron, and PPGA Celeron CPUs, in addition to the newly released AMD Athlon Slot-A processor, should you desire to upgrade CPUs in the future.

How it achieves this is through custom mounting "gaskets" that are made from rubberized material along with dense foam, which form fit to the CPU type that is being utilized in order to ensure an air free vacuum.

The gaskets are disposable, meaning that they can only be used once. Each time a new CPU is purchased for use in the owner's PC they'll need to buy a new gasket for the MC1000 from Swiftech that costs $20 plus S&H.