Overclocking - Are you one of the loonies...

[Poodles]

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.

My friend that has more money, builds computers for a living, and upgrades every couple months has had both...

A well designed case with good airflow (not tons of fans, you need directional FLOW) with good heatsinks will be just as effective as water cooling (unless you cheat and use ice in the water or stick the radiator outside).

water cooling is NOT durable enough for quite a few reasons, but I'm not arguing about this...

 

[flight doc89]

I have been too lazy/too poor to do anything to my comp. Athlon 3800, DFI Lanparty SLI-DR, 1Gb Kingston :cries: 2x 7600GS in SLI, all running pretty much stock.

Once I get some spare cash, ima get some better/more ram and better cooling then i'll be set to step it up a little right now i've just got a couple case fans and a PCI-slot fan under each vidcard. I wanna big typhoon and better heatsinks for the vidcards before i overclock it.

What are everybodies 3DMark scores? single card, i got 3500, SLI got 6500, rivatuner overclock pushed like 6700-6800 (3DMark05)

EDIT: me want

 

[Kai]

In 3DMark 2006 i get 12109 points with the 8800GT

SuperPi 1M = 17.094sec
SuperPi 2M = 43.093sec

 

[tissimo]

with xp i get 143xx in 3dmark 06

 

[Kai]

Tissimo - probably cause of the quad you have...and its huge 8mb L2 compared to my 2mb.

 

[IJ.]

My friend that has more money, builds computers for a living, and upgrades every couple months has had both...

A well designed case with good airflow (not tons of fans, you need directional FLOW) with good heatsinks will be just as effective as water cooling (unless you cheat and use ice in the water or stick the radiator outside).

water cooling is NOT durable enough for quite a few reasons, but I'm not arguing about this...

Pardon?

5 years here without a single issue.

 

[JustAnotherVictim]

Depends on the cooler.
My bro had a water cooling system, it was great until the pump broke....

 

[TheHeffNerr]

My friend that has more money, builds computers for a living, and upgrades every couple months has had both...

A well designed case with good airflow (not tons of fans, you need directional FLOW) with good heatsinks will be just as effective as water cooling (unless you cheat and use ice in the water or stick the radiator outside).

water cooling is NOT durable enough for quite a few reasons, but I'm not arguing about this...

ok, drain your coolent out of your car, stick some fans on it, and see how long it will last....

 

[JustAnotherVictim]

Bad comparison simply because of the relative size of the fans.

 

[TheHeffNerr]

Bad comparison simply because of the relative size of the fans.

the comparison is fine, use fans that are the correct size and call it good, it's still not going to work as well.

 

[JustAnotherVictim]

Still a bad comparison any way you look at it.
A piece of electronic equipment is not an entire working engine.
No combustion, no rotating parts and no moving mass.

 

[IJ.]

There are aircooled car engines though

 

[JustAnotherVictim]

As are Harley's but they don't like to sit still for too long.

 

[IJ.]

Harley's don't have a fan

 

[Fuzz420]

Ive been on a High Definition binge lately. Been download movies in 720p. Im glad i can finally play them. Only down side is the movies destroy my rapidshare account.HD movies are demanding on the system, im glad ive overclocked they damn near play flawlessly unless im running other programs

 

[JustAnotherVictim]

Harley's don't have a fan

The world is their fan.

Side question: Anyone know how to set up a network between two computers for gaming using a crossover cable?
Been messing with it and I can't can't both computers to recognize each other.
I can get one to ping the other but can't get it to do the reverse.

 

[tissimo]

my e-penis has grown larger

Lol. it restarted in prime after about 10-12 minutes (w/ 2 sticks). I thought it was the 4 sticks of memory soo took 2 sticks out and tested. Before only lasted 4-5 minutes (w/ 4 sticks) so got more but still restart... oh well... temps hovered right around 68-69.. I had the vcore set to 1.50 in the bios, but vdroop down to 1.43v in load.

It ran 3dmark06 again though..
14980, lol
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=4494792


The storey behind this.. Its a bone chilling 32-33*f outside (COLD!!! for FL) and my rooms probably a good 60 or so so decided to play around.. hahah

let see if i get 3.9 or 4.0 into windows for a cpu-z shot, hahahah! and maybe crack 15k in 3dmark

 

[tissimo]

well it loaded into windows then froze :/ oh well..

I did put my other 2gb of ram back in to try to get that 15k mark. also overclocked my 8800gt to 710/1769/1000 and ended up with 15142.. so it grew a bit more..

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=4495028

oh well was fun, back to 3.2.. haha

 

[Kai]

Lol - its about 15*f outside - try this for an idle temp record:

Thats INDOORS too.....on AIR

Load temps were approx 40*c

Although that was only at 333x9, 1.375v....the board is really holding up my overclock

 

[tissimo]

yea I opend the window in the room to try to get the temps down more for the 3.9, but didn't go.. maybe with more voltage.. but was too chicken..