- Joined
- Jul 31, 2003
- Location
- Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Lake Tahoe
Well it's been a very very long time boys and (if any) girls. I haven't upgraded a computer since, well almost 5 years! Getting caught up with work and life, and not much gaming, my mac ended up picking up all the work slack.
So looking in my computer room, I have some works of art (well to a geek like me), a Bowman modded/regassed mach II gt with a Baker block, and a Vapochill LS modded/regassed by PC ICE, and another mach II regassed by JINU, Amazingly, my old 3.2 P4 overclocked to 4.4ghz still chugs along, the same overclock since I set up the system almost 5 years ago! But as many of you know, the system is a joke when it comes to gaming, and sadly it still uses AGP (huh, wtf is that Exempt? says the young ones) , So as I start to price out and order parts for a new system, I wonder, and start googling.... "anyone still using mach II gt's and vapochill Ls's to cool there day to day gaming rig anymore?" ...
Well that's why Im asking, I don't see anyone except for hardcore benchmarkers using the system like I, and many others once did, for our day to day gaming rigs... Im not expecting some record breaking overclocks, I just want to know if anyone is using them to cool, and if so, are new kits available for the new sockets? If not I guess I could make one pretty easily. How about insulating the CPU pins/BGA whatever is under these new CPU's, back in the day I would use non conductive die electric grease, and smear it all over the pins, but Im not sure if thats possible anymore. So if anyone out there can give me some suggestions/feedback, I want to build another killer gaming rig!
So looking in my computer room, I have some works of art (well to a geek like me), a Bowman modded/regassed mach II gt with a Baker block, and a Vapochill LS modded/regassed by PC ICE, and another mach II regassed by JINU, Amazingly, my old 3.2 P4 overclocked to 4.4ghz still chugs along, the same overclock since I set up the system almost 5 years ago! But as many of you know, the system is a joke when it comes to gaming, and sadly it still uses AGP (huh, wtf is that Exempt? says the young ones) , So as I start to price out and order parts for a new system, I wonder, and start googling.... "anyone still using mach II gt's and vapochill Ls's to cool there day to day gaming rig anymore?" ...
Well that's why Im asking, I don't see anyone except for hardcore benchmarkers using the system like I, and many others once did, for our day to day gaming rigs... Im not expecting some record breaking overclocks, I just want to know if anyone is using them to cool, and if so, are new kits available for the new sockets? If not I guess I could make one pretty easily. How about insulating the CPU pins/BGA whatever is under these new CPU's, back in the day I would use non conductive die electric grease, and smear it all over the pins, but Im not sure if thats possible anymore. So if anyone out there can give me some suggestions/feedback, I want to build another killer gaming rig!