iamsuperbleeder

what water cooling setup are you using there? what do you temps average?

Philbert

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Hey bleeder - it's an Asetek sealed unit - comes pre assembled and is pretty well reviewed....and QUIET!

http://www.asetek.com/products/oem-s...cts/510lc.html

Hear that?

Exactly.

this PC is so much quieter than my last build!

In my BIOS this morning, I let it idle for about 15 minutes and I was getting 29 C at the CPU and 24 in the system overall...

StampyDH

That Asetek Cooler looks exactly like a corsair h50?? is it the same thing but branded differently?

UPDATE: New case, Silverstone Raven 2 Evolution

iamsuperbleeder

that's odd... mine's idling on the stock Intel cooler right now at 29-30


well, I say idle, but I have 4 Firefox windows open, iTunes playing, and a few Windows folders open...

Magnusian

Don't underestimate those stock Intel jobbies, they're pretty good coolers. I have a half-height one that came with a Celeron that more than handles cooling it at twice it's stock clock and slightly higher vcore.

iamsuperbleeder

well if I were serious about wanting to overclock this i7 or something then I would consider an aftermarket air cooler, or possibly even water cooling, but I just haven't had a need to mess with the clock settings yet

Magnusian

Overclocking today is a lot more complicated than it used to be.

Back in the day to overclock you just desoldered the clock crystal or clock generating chip from the motherboard and soldered on one that was a higher frequency (that the cpu could still operate at). This is where the phrase "clock chipping" comes from, which is what overclocking used to be called, at least when one was overclocking an Apple machine.

Then it was merely upping the FSB frequency and/or changing the multiplier, and almost never touching vcore. Sometimes you did this in BIOS but almost as often there were dip switches on the motherboard for controlling FSB (and vcore), though multiplier changes sometimes required physically altering the cpu (like the pencil trick on Athlon XPs to unlock the multiplier).

Now these days it's waaaaaaaaaaay more complicated. You have to tweak DDR, MCH (if applicable), and vcore voltages. What you set these voltages to is affected by FSB speed, number of ram sticks, speed of ram, number of cpu cores, You also have to tweak a large number of settings like RAM timings (usually you loosen the timings, so you end up with "slower" ram by virtue of increased number of cycles required for each operation), RAM/FSB ratio (if applicable, some motherboards force 1:1 some allow other ratios, depends on chipset and BIOS), FSB, and even in some cases you'll have to keep an eye on your PCI-E clock as it will go up.

Of course that's with systems that don't do quickpath or AMD's equivalent or EFI. I know little about overclocking the newer chips but I think I can safely assume that it's even more complicated.

Philbert

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While overclocking has become more complicated, it's also become more accessible I think. Several vendors have created non-BIOS user interfaces that help people control everything, and monitor system health. I was just at PDXLAN (500 person LAN party in Portland) this weekend, and ASUS showed off their new P67 motherboards and overclocking utility. They got a core i7 CPU to 5.0 GHz using it - in about 45 seconds!

http://rog.asus.com/Blog.aspx?bID=20...654804D66B9F2A

Their tool actually lets you use the BIOS in a 3D UI...with a MOUSE! Did you ever think there'd be a day when you could use your mouse in your BIOS?

Pretty cool stuff - and Intel has their K series out, which are unlocked CPUs you can OC easily....just need their chipset issues to get ironed out first

Magnusian

Yes, actually, about 15 years ago. Of course that was in the actual BIOS menu, and was pretty crappy.

Philbert

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Get out - really??!!! I always thought you had to use arrow keys....not that it would have made things any better

Magnusian

Yeah, it was also a custom BIOS that probably only ever found it's way onto the one machine it was on. A friend did it just to prove he could.

Philbert

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I bet he got mad tail for that trick

Magnusian

kevtek

Updated :
thread : https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f98/...l#post51689102

Magnusian

Bought a 120gb SSD to replace my ancient primary 500gb HDD. Just trying to give myself a good excuse to do the upgrade and sit through making Windows the way I want it again.

drift_king

ive got 3 computers at the moment
my main:
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz
3 GB DDR2 667
800 GB of HDD space
Nvidia GEforce GT 120
win 7 64 bit

my secondary
AMD 3800 + 2.4 GHz (hyperthreading)
4 GB DDR2 800
NVidia Geforce 8500 GT
win 7 32-bit

and my old and slow:
intel Pentuim 4 2.8 GHz
512 MB DDR2
MAtrox g450 Dualhead
xp sp3 32 bit

madbomber08

I built this computer myself back in November 2008. The Nehalem Core i7 processors had just hit the market and I ordered the 920 only several days after release. I bought all my parts from Newegg (which is a great source for computer parts), and the bill came out to be around $1500.

The reason I got the wild hair to build my own computer was because of my friend. He had built his own computer several years before I built mine and had played and played so many games on his that it was unreal. His argument of "Computer graphics will blow your POS xbox graphics out of the water" came to real life when I saw first hand just how good computer graphics could be, I was hooked and had to build my own. So I researched for about 6 months, and pulled the trigger when the new i7s released. I built a fairly capable gaming rig only because I thought I'd play games non-stop. It turns out that wasn't the case and I maybe have 24 hours of game playing on this machine! I mainly just surf the web as being a full-time engineering student doesn't leave me with much time, but if there's a sweet game I want to try it has the capability to run it. I am currently using sync home videos from Dad's old Hi-8 camera and then burning them onto black DVD disks. It works great for that but it is overkill for just that, none-the-less. Wouldn't trade it for anything and I keep updating it as the years go on! Truth is, you can never have the best when it comes to computers. And if you do, well there's always going to be something better within just a short amount of time...

Specs:
Windows Vista (yep, still got it)
Asus P6T Deluxe mobo (stock clocks)
Intel Core i7 920 CPU
G Skill 3 x 1 + 3 x 2 = 9 gig ram
EVGA GTX 260 Graphics Card
Cooler Master LED equipped Case (fan LEDs have bit the dust)
Xigmatek Loki CPU cooler (run with 2 92mm fans for a push-pull setup)
PC Power and Cooling 600W Continuous power supply
640gig Western Digital HD
160gig Western Digital HD (backup)
Lite On DVD/CD burner
4 case fans (1 intake, 3 exhaust)

Philbert

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GTX 260??? That's a relic

Way to revive the old thread!

what are your specs?

madbomber08

Ha, in q4 '08 when I built it, the only better GPU was the GTX 280 for Nvidia and 4870 for ATI, but in this day and age it is a true relic! I believe they had just introduced the 4870 x2 at that time as well.

The specs should be below the pictures. When I wasn't signed in I couldn't see them but when I signed in I could. WTF?

Philbert

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Looks like your text is in black....edit your post and change the font color to white