- Joined
- Dec 1, 2003
- Location
- Boulder, Colorado
Well folks -
We are in a challenging period as a team. We have had some stress and some divisiveness on our forums of late. We have lost some respected members of the team and community, and we have struggled with our differing opinions.
I for one have been hoping for a new and inspiring focus - something that reminds us why we are all here: The fun and challenge of overclocking - and the passion we feel for distributed computing projects such as SETI.
To that end - I'm launching a project of my own Over the last week or so I have accumulated all the parts I need to build a new rig. "Wow, a new rig, boy that's real exciting, Enk" you say? Anticlimactic? Perhaps - but it is a particularly fun overclock; one that is (quite honestly) far, far over my head. I will probably fry a motherboard along the way, make some major mistakes, but I'll learn from them - probably mostly from people on this very forum with far more experience overclocking than I
I am dubbing the project "Project Freya" (I intend to name the new machine freya). Here are the specs:
Asus PC-DL Motherboard
Two 1.6ghz low voltage Xeons with D1 Stepping
2x256 (512mb) memory
Two Intel Wind Tunnel HSFs
550 watt Sparkle power supply
An Antec P-180 Case (limited edition SPCR "Black" model)
What's so special about a couple of 1.6ghz xeons? Well, the low voltage D1 stepping beauties have, with some frequency, clocked to over 3.0ghz without any heroic cooling techniques - on nothing but air! I'll be happy if I can get them to 2.8ghz.
This is not a new thing I have discovered, there are a number of places that detail how to do this with this board and these processors, but the project requires soldering on the motherboard - a vdimm mod, a vcore mod and so forth - accordingly it will be quite fun
I'll be working on this over the next 2-4 weeks - as I get everything laid out I will start posting some photos and, if all goes well, links to a new cruncher for the team that is doing over 1000cs/day (That's my goal anyway, we'll see how close I can get).
I hope everyone has a wonderful week - let's remember why we're all here: Each other, the hobby, and our respective projects!
Enk
We are in a challenging period as a team. We have had some stress and some divisiveness on our forums of late. We have lost some respected members of the team and community, and we have struggled with our differing opinions.
I for one have been hoping for a new and inspiring focus - something that reminds us why we are all here: The fun and challenge of overclocking - and the passion we feel for distributed computing projects such as SETI.
To that end - I'm launching a project of my own Over the last week or so I have accumulated all the parts I need to build a new rig. "Wow, a new rig, boy that's real exciting, Enk" you say? Anticlimactic? Perhaps - but it is a particularly fun overclock; one that is (quite honestly) far, far over my head. I will probably fry a motherboard along the way, make some major mistakes, but I'll learn from them - probably mostly from people on this very forum with far more experience overclocking than I
I am dubbing the project "Project Freya" (I intend to name the new machine freya). Here are the specs:
Asus PC-DL Motherboard
Two 1.6ghz low voltage Xeons with D1 Stepping
2x256 (512mb) memory
Two Intel Wind Tunnel HSFs
550 watt Sparkle power supply
An Antec P-180 Case (limited edition SPCR "Black" model)
What's so special about a couple of 1.6ghz xeons? Well, the low voltage D1 stepping beauties have, with some frequency, clocked to over 3.0ghz without any heroic cooling techniques - on nothing but air! I'll be happy if I can get them to 2.8ghz.
This is not a new thing I have discovered, there are a number of places that detail how to do this with this board and these processors, but the project requires soldering on the motherboard - a vdimm mod, a vcore mod and so forth - accordingly it will be quite fun
I'll be working on this over the next 2-4 weeks - as I get everything laid out I will start posting some photos and, if all goes well, links to a new cruncher for the team that is doing over 1000cs/day (That's my goal anyway, we'll see how close I can get).
I hope everyone has a wonderful week - let's remember why we're all here: Each other, the hobby, and our respective projects!
Enk
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