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- Upstate NY and NYC
Sorry if this is in the wrong forum. I couldn't find one to fit exactly... Well, maybe if I break it up into like 5 posts. Doh!
Ok. Enough with the dual Xeons for almost a decade. Time for me to jump on the overclocking bandwagon for some serious speeds.
I just pieced togather a mother of a system. All parts will be here by Friday. I'm new to overclocking so assume I know nothing of applications, tools, and techniques. Wish I found this forum first before ordering the parts. Oh well.
Tom's Hardware did an excellent story a few days ago that finally made me give up my next P4 Xeon 800 FSB system for the overclocking dream.
http://www20.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20040916/index.html
What I got?
Guess the question is, what don't I got?
Asus P5AD2 Premium Mobo
Intel Prescott 3.6Ghz CPU
CORSAIR XMS2 512MB DDR2 667mhz PC2-5400
NVIDIA 6800 GTO PCI Express 256MB DDR3 (same clocking as the Ultra)
ThermalTake Aquarius III Water Cooling (modded before install)
Misc info (for the power PS discussions on this setup)
ThermalTake Silent PurePower 560W PS
2xWestern Digital 36GB 10k 8MB SATA HD using onboard SATA in RAID 0 (72GB container)
Promise 4-port SATA RAID Host Controller w/256MB of ram (cache)
4xMaxtor 200GB 7.2k 8MB SATA using SATA pci controller in RAID 5
Plextor 12x DVD-R/W using onboard SATA
Plextor 48x CD-R/W using onboard SATA
ThermalTake Xaser IV black case (11 fans, very quiet)
Viewsonic VP201b 20.1" Pro Series 16ms DVI LCD (adding a 2nd in Dec)
Dell 5.1 Surround w/dual 8" Subs by Altec Lansing (boom boom)
Water Cooling
As far as water cooling, I have some heavy mods I'm going to do to the Aquarius III system before installing it (additional radiators, sealing up the air leaks, low speed fans, etc). Things I've found on this page:
http://www.a1-electronics.net/Heatsinks/2004/2nd/Thermtake_AquIII_Mod7.shtml
Water Cooler for VGA?
I wouldn't mind getting an additional thermaltake BigRiver water cooler, and then the vga waterblock to attach it solely to the 6800 for better cooling. I just don't know if that is better then running the OEM fan. Any thoughts?
I don't think it would be advisable to connect inline to the existing water system after the CPU's waterblock. Right?
Two goals that will limit our ability for over-clocking
1.) Very low noise level. I live in a very quiet neighborhood. And have all hardwood floors in my condo. So needless to say, I don't need server-room sound coming out of this thing.
The dual P4 Xeons I run at this moment in the same case is a bit too loud due to the xeon fans. Unplugging them makes the case almost whisper quiet. I'd like to not exceed that noise level (Xeon fans are LOUD).
2.) Extremely stable uptime. I work from home, on this machine. Sometimes leaving applications running for days on end, at close to 100% CPU load (got a backup machine for that now). But still, the machine has to be extremely stable all around with working.
Now I caught a few FSB software modifiers back in the day, and think they are still around. I wouldn't mind backing things down to work with. And then cranking up the juice (and noise level) for extreme gaming.
Thanks guys!
-Eric
Ps, sorry for the long post. I am well known for that, when trying to be short.
Ok. Enough with the dual Xeons for almost a decade. Time for me to jump on the overclocking bandwagon for some serious speeds.
I just pieced togather a mother of a system. All parts will be here by Friday. I'm new to overclocking so assume I know nothing of applications, tools, and techniques. Wish I found this forum first before ordering the parts. Oh well.
Tom's Hardware did an excellent story a few days ago that finally made me give up my next P4 Xeon 800 FSB system for the overclocking dream.
http://www20.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20040916/index.html
What I got?
Guess the question is, what don't I got?
Asus P5AD2 Premium Mobo
Intel Prescott 3.6Ghz CPU
CORSAIR XMS2 512MB DDR2 667mhz PC2-5400
NVIDIA 6800 GTO PCI Express 256MB DDR3 (same clocking as the Ultra)
ThermalTake Aquarius III Water Cooling (modded before install)
Misc info (for the power PS discussions on this setup)
ThermalTake Silent PurePower 560W PS
2xWestern Digital 36GB 10k 8MB SATA HD using onboard SATA in RAID 0 (72GB container)
Promise 4-port SATA RAID Host Controller w/256MB of ram (cache)
4xMaxtor 200GB 7.2k 8MB SATA using SATA pci controller in RAID 5
Plextor 12x DVD-R/W using onboard SATA
Plextor 48x CD-R/W using onboard SATA
ThermalTake Xaser IV black case (11 fans, very quiet)
Viewsonic VP201b 20.1" Pro Series 16ms DVI LCD (adding a 2nd in Dec)
Dell 5.1 Surround w/dual 8" Subs by Altec Lansing (boom boom)
Water Cooling
As far as water cooling, I have some heavy mods I'm going to do to the Aquarius III system before installing it (additional radiators, sealing up the air leaks, low speed fans, etc). Things I've found on this page:
http://www.a1-electronics.net/Heatsinks/2004/2nd/Thermtake_AquIII_Mod7.shtml
Water Cooler for VGA?
I wouldn't mind getting an additional thermaltake BigRiver water cooler, and then the vga waterblock to attach it solely to the 6800 for better cooling. I just don't know if that is better then running the OEM fan. Any thoughts?
I don't think it would be advisable to connect inline to the existing water system after the CPU's waterblock. Right?
Two goals that will limit our ability for over-clocking
1.) Very low noise level. I live in a very quiet neighborhood. And have all hardwood floors in my condo. So needless to say, I don't need server-room sound coming out of this thing.
The dual P4 Xeons I run at this moment in the same case is a bit too loud due to the xeon fans. Unplugging them makes the case almost whisper quiet. I'd like to not exceed that noise level (Xeon fans are LOUD).
2.) Extremely stable uptime. I work from home, on this machine. Sometimes leaving applications running for days on end, at close to 100% CPU load (got a backup machine for that now). But still, the machine has to be extremely stable all around with working.
Now I caught a few FSB software modifiers back in the day, and think they are still around. I wouldn't mind backing things down to work with. And then cranking up the juice (and noise level) for extreme gaming.
Thanks guys!
-Eric
Ps, sorry for the long post. I am well known for that, when trying to be short.
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