Soong
12-14-05, 01:18 AM
It took pretty much all day including the modifications I had to do to the case it self. I feel like I should be charged with a sex crime after the way I had to treat some of my hardware.
I’m very pleased so far. I have been able to achieve a stable over clock of 3.38GHz from a stock speed of 2.8GHz (P4 dual core) with no trouble at all. I am running two Folding@Home clients; one for each core of course. I will try pushing it more in the morning.
My system is quite but I have realized something. A lot of the noises I didn’t like from my system before where not from all the fans. The loud ones were for sure, especially that wretched GPU fan. A regularly timed, uhm… groan, seems to be coming from some of the hard disks I have in the system (there are 5). I think the vibrations from all the drives kind of synch up every 15 seconds or so and kind of whine (?) it’s a really hard sound to describe.
Also the Panaflow fan I got for the radiator sounds slightly off balance and makes a bit of a buzzing sound. I had a Delta tri-blade that I was going to use but didn’t because it actually vibrated as it was off balance. The Delta didn’t actually make any noticeable noise because of it though. I might switch back.
My temps are jumping between 36C and 38C. I bumped the memory voltage up by 0.2v because my CMOS told me to (I was surprised as well); and the CPU voltage up by ~0.02v because I was going from 3.2GHz to 3.4GHz and figured it wouldn’t hurt. The CMOS reset jumper is now thoroughly nested and hard to reach, I’m thinking about rigging a toggle switch on the front of the case so I can short that jumper without opening the case and performing microsurgery in the future
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal ( http://www.gigabyte-usa.com/Motherboard/Products/Products_GA-8I955X%20Royal.htm)
∟ Processor: Intel Pentium D 820 (http://processorfinder.intel.com/scripts/details.asp?sSpec=SL8CP&ProcFam=1039&PkgType=ALL&SysBusSpd=ALL&CorSpd=ALL)
∟ Memory: Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400 2GB Kit DDR2-800 XMS2-6400 (http://www.corsairmicro.com/corsair/products/specs/TWIN2X2048-6400.pdf)
∟ Video Card: ATi X1800 XL (http://ati.com/products/RadeonX1800/index.html)
∟ Sound Card: Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum (http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=208&product=14065)
∟ SCSI Controler: Adaptec 29160N (http://adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?sess=no&language=English+US&prodkey=ASC-29160N&cat=%2fTechnology%2fHost+Adapters%2fUltra160+SCSI+ PCI)
∟ Primary HDD: Cheetah X15 36LP (http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/specs/scsi/st336752lw.html)
∟ Secondary Storage: RAID 5 Array comprised of 4 drives (4x Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA - ST3120026AS (http://seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/1,1081,586,00.html))
∟ Optical Drives: Two Plextor PX-716A DVD±R/RW CD-R/RW 6x DL DVD burner (http://plextor.com/english/products/716A.htm)
∟ Power Supply: Antec Phantom 500 (http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=24500)
Cooling
Swiftech Storm CPU Waterblock (http://www.swiftnets.com/products/storm.asp)
Danger Den Acetal MAZE4 GPU (http://dangerdenstore.com/product.php?productid=150&cat=47&page=1)
Danger Den MAZE4 Chipset Block (http://dangerdenstore.com/product.php?productid=157&cat=46&page=1)
CoolingWorks CoolRad Radiator (http://coolingworks.com/products/CoolRad12T.htm) w/ Shroud (http://www.coolingworks.com/products/mini.html)
Laing D5 pump (http://www.lainginc.com/D_Series.htm)
Thermaltake HardCano 13 (http://www.thermaltake.com/accessories/a2259hardcano13/a2259hardcano13.htm)
Folding@Home Stats (http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&username=Sooung) (These will look better soon.)
I’m very pleased so far. I have been able to achieve a stable over clock of 3.38GHz from a stock speed of 2.8GHz (P4 dual core) with no trouble at all. I am running two Folding@Home clients; one for each core of course. I will try pushing it more in the morning.
My system is quite but I have realized something. A lot of the noises I didn’t like from my system before where not from all the fans. The loud ones were for sure, especially that wretched GPU fan. A regularly timed, uhm… groan, seems to be coming from some of the hard disks I have in the system (there are 5). I think the vibrations from all the drives kind of synch up every 15 seconds or so and kind of whine (?) it’s a really hard sound to describe.
Also the Panaflow fan I got for the radiator sounds slightly off balance and makes a bit of a buzzing sound. I had a Delta tri-blade that I was going to use but didn’t because it actually vibrated as it was off balance. The Delta didn’t actually make any noticeable noise because of it though. I might switch back.
My temps are jumping between 36C and 38C. I bumped the memory voltage up by 0.2v because my CMOS told me to (I was surprised as well); and the CPU voltage up by ~0.02v because I was going from 3.2GHz to 3.4GHz and figured it wouldn’t hurt. The CMOS reset jumper is now thoroughly nested and hard to reach, I’m thinking about rigging a toggle switch on the front of the case so I can short that jumper without opening the case and performing microsurgery in the future
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal ( http://www.gigabyte-usa.com/Motherboard/Products/Products_GA-8I955X%20Royal.htm)
∟ Processor: Intel Pentium D 820 (http://processorfinder.intel.com/scripts/details.asp?sSpec=SL8CP&ProcFam=1039&PkgType=ALL&SysBusSpd=ALL&CorSpd=ALL)
∟ Memory: Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400 2GB Kit DDR2-800 XMS2-6400 (http://www.corsairmicro.com/corsair/products/specs/TWIN2X2048-6400.pdf)
∟ Video Card: ATi X1800 XL (http://ati.com/products/RadeonX1800/index.html)
∟ Sound Card: Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum (http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=208&product=14065)
∟ SCSI Controler: Adaptec 29160N (http://adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?sess=no&language=English+US&prodkey=ASC-29160N&cat=%2fTechnology%2fHost+Adapters%2fUltra160+SCSI+ PCI)
∟ Primary HDD: Cheetah X15 36LP (http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/specs/scsi/st336752lw.html)
∟ Secondary Storage: RAID 5 Array comprised of 4 drives (4x Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA - ST3120026AS (http://seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/1,1081,586,00.html))
∟ Optical Drives: Two Plextor PX-716A DVD±R/RW CD-R/RW 6x DL DVD burner (http://plextor.com/english/products/716A.htm)
∟ Power Supply: Antec Phantom 500 (http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=24500)
Cooling
Swiftech Storm CPU Waterblock (http://www.swiftnets.com/products/storm.asp)
Danger Den Acetal MAZE4 GPU (http://dangerdenstore.com/product.php?productid=150&cat=47&page=1)
Danger Den MAZE4 Chipset Block (http://dangerdenstore.com/product.php?productid=157&cat=46&page=1)
CoolingWorks CoolRad Radiator (http://coolingworks.com/products/CoolRad12T.htm) w/ Shroud (http://www.coolingworks.com/products/mini.html)
Laing D5 pump (http://www.lainginc.com/D_Series.htm)
Thermaltake HardCano 13 (http://www.thermaltake.com/accessories/a2259hardcano13/a2259hardcano13.htm)
Folding@Home Stats (http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&username=Sooung) (These will look better soon.)