Overclocking - Are you one of the loonies...

[Doward]

Doward = same mindset as me

SOTA is retardedly expensive and not worth the money when it's gonna be half price in 6 months...

AMD Duron 1.4Ghz OCed to 2Ghz. I can OC the vid card and the CPU more, but it's pointless as I'm RAM bottlenecked with only 512MB's...

RAM doesn't OC well and speeds aren't as important in RAM, it's the amount not the speed that matters mostly. THe rest you can OC the piss out of if you can keep it cool (swiftech cooler here, but I couldn't stand the hair dryer I mean DELTA fan...)

Cooling is key and a million 60's aren't going to do anything but cause turbulance and tons of noise, just one good 120MM fan can do TONS of cooling if put in the right place...

Used to have an Alpha PEP66 with twin Delta black label 60s on it way back in the day. AMD K6-2 350 @ 600Mhz *sigh* that fucker was STUPID LOUD.

Always use the biggest fans you can get, so they don't have to spin as fast for the same airflow (aka QUIETER)

 

[Poodles]

the delta I have is a damn MONSTER

if I turn it on in my hand the torque will nearly snap it out of my hand, but the damn thing ran EXTREMELY cool with it on there...

maybe if I could get long enough cables to put the computer in another ROOM it wouldn't be so bad...

 

[Kai]

Alpha! I remember them

I had a GlobalWin FKP32 - 7500rpm and SERIOUSLY ANNOYINGLY LOUD!

You actually had to muffle the machine to watch anything, play games or hear other people in the room!

Waiting on an Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme to replace the Zalman....I like the Zalman, but i dont like heatsinks with LED's and this is a bugger to keep clean

Almost makes me want to go to a watercooling setup sometimes...

 

[Poodles]

The swiftech is easy to clean and isn't nearly as fragile as a zalman...

the LED's are easy to kill, cut the leads to em...

Thermalright is built much like a zalman as well, so it's not gonna be any easier to clean IMHO.

Also, am I the only one that HATES this stupid trend of 20lb heatsinks that stick up a foot from the motherboard and can actually BREAK a MB from their weight?

 

[Kai]

I had an Artic Cooling Freezer Pro 64 actually snap the plastic socket surround on my old Socket 939 rig....fucking thing landed on my 7600GT and thankfully it wasnt damaged...that was a tad scary!

I can see the appeal of watercooling, but not the cost...i have a design in mind that i'd love to put into practice that uses the rad from a 1980 998cc Mini Cooper, but that would be plain silly

I'll stick with aircooling for a little while longer

 

[Poodles]

well, swiftech makes both watercooling and aircooling...

personally, water cooling is retarded, it's only really moving the heated water someplace else that then need to be cooled. Then you have a fan cooling the radiator, it's still not silent and it only takes one leak to destroy hundreds if not thousands of dollars worth of PC components...

Sorry, not a risk I would take...

 

[IJ.]

Water cooled for many many years now (2002) if built correctly there shouldn't be any "leaks".

 

[Kai]

Poodles - this is why you do a leakdown test

Also - watercooling becomes more 'fun' when you add say....a 226watt TEC to the mix

Still expensive though

 

[Poodles]

OMG IJ watercools?

Still, ANY risk for the marginal benefits over air cooling is a dead deal in my book...

I've seen swiftech air coolers cool as well as a liquid cooling system, if not better. Plus I like my stuff simple...

 

[IJ.]

Poodles: I used to game a bit and tested EVERYTHING I could get my hands on (used to have a 2>3 month upgrade cycle)

This system was the last I built and now have no reason to upgrade it as it's more than capable for it's current use. (had the first 3ghz P4 in the country)

Intel P4 3.06 Ghz/533

1Gb Pc1066 Rdram

Asus P4t-533-c

Mitsubishi 22"DiamondPro Monitor

Audigy DE

Dt 2200 5.1 speakers

Leadtek A350 TDH 5900U/256Mb 44.90 Det driver

Apaptec 2100s Scsi Raid card

U160 Scsi 15000rpm Raid0 18Gb Seagate Cheetah X15 x 3 drives
40 Gb Maxtor IDE junk drive

Swiftech MCW 462u Cpu water block
Ehiem 1048 pump
Blackice Extreme2 Radiator/Dual 120mm fans
Digidoc5

Adaptec 2930c Scsi card

Plextor Scsi Cdrom
Plextor Scsi Cdrw

Intel Pro/100 nic

WinXP pro sp1

520w Topower PSU
520w Topower PSU

650 APC Ups
700 APC Ups

 

[Doward]

OMFG! THE OLD MAN GAMES?

Holy shit, the world just went still

Nice setup, but get your hands on a Core 2 Duo - cheap and the performance delta is amazing. My 3.6ghz e2160 *destroys* my old 3.8ghz P4. Only thing I could see holding you back, is that s478 board.

What vid card you running? Time to ditch AGP, btw

 

[Kai]

Indeed - I have nothing but positive things to say about my E4300...the little chip that could, and did

And SCSI is a bit old hat now SATA II is around

Get an E4500, IP35 Dark Raider, 2x2gb PC6400 G.Skill and a GeForce 8800GT - voom!

 

[Merlyn]

OMG IJ watercools?

Still, ANY risk for the marginal benefits over air cooling is a dead deal in my book...

I've seen swiftech air coolers cool as well as a liquid cooling system, if not better. Plus I like my stuff simple...

Any Risk... not to throw this out of topic, but for christ sake, look at what we do to our cars... risk.. we have taken that meaning to a whole new level (atleast I have)

 

[IJ.]

Haven't gamed for many years now just don't get time so it's fast enough for everything I do these days

 

[JustAnotherVictim]

Omg IJ is a nerd....

 

[IJ.]

Shhh it was in another life

 

[Kai]

Oh pish - you know you want to play Crysis BAAAAD

 

[Doward]

That's it - old school gaming? Get on with some UT2k3 - I'm calling you out!

 

[TheHeffNerr]

Still, ANY risk for the marginal benefits over air cooling is a dead deal in my book...

water cooling is sooo much better then air cooling, i personally use air cooling because it's much more of a challenge to keep the temps low and a high overclock, imo water cooling is cheating.

google, use it, learn something.

 

[tissimo]

i lapped my processor and heatsink... i dropped 3-4*c at idle, but load temps are near the same. Guess my Heatsink can keep up with all the heat the quad throws out.. 3.2ghz it is then