- Joined
- Jun 2, 2006
- Location
- Umatilla, Oregon
My time here at OCF has been awesome, I couldn’t have learned soo much anywhere else. I have compiled a rig timeline for me at OCF. All of this has happend in under a year.
I started with a Dell Dimension 4700
Specs:
530 P4 775
1Gb DDR-533
Radeon X300
160gb Maxtor
Then all the “cool” ppl at OCF inspired me to make my computer “mine”.
My dell morphed into this
My dell was transplanted into a cheapo case with a better HSF and stuff. (it was ugly)
I still wanted faster and an OC ability. So I was dumb and did no research and bought a ABIT Ni8-SLi, and 2 6600 256mb vid cards. The Ni8-SLi only allowed for a 235mhz oc…. This just gave me a taste of OC’ing,
I wanted more.
So I saved some pennys and got a real motherboard (asus P5WD2-E) and an 805D and some Samsung DDR-667.
Ditched the cheap case and got a bigger cheap case. Then felt a urge to try water-cooling… All of my attempts at buying good overclocking hardware before were thwarted resulted in poor choices due to lack of research. This was not goin to happen again. I read about watercooling for around 5 days.
Then purchased:
$45 2x d-tek WW’s (I knew they were a good design and I needed to mod the bracket)
$20 dual 5 ¼ bay res
$55 laing d4
$25 pro 120 rad + sanyo denki (later upgraded to BIXII and two 120CFM Silverstones)
$5 cheapo PVC tubing…
And my first WC system was born.
CORE 2 DUO
I bought a e6400 for $200 that didn’t clock worth its life… I also bought a Xeon 3040 which is my current CPU and a new P5B-Dlx as well as the GX2 i had first RMA'ed
The 8800GTS is the current weapon of choice.
My recent upgrades consist of
2x1gb Crucial Balistix DDR-1000
1 Mushkin 700w PSU
Also got a thermaltake Armor.
This new case PSU and RAM will be a almost new build for me and i want to make it look nice and haul A$$. Pics to come as soo as parts get here.
PICs soon too come.
I started with a Dell Dimension 4700
Specs:
530 P4 775
1Gb DDR-533
Radeon X300
160gb Maxtor
Then all the “cool” ppl at OCF inspired me to make my computer “mine”.
My dell morphed into this
My dell was transplanted into a cheapo case with a better HSF and stuff. (it was ugly)
I still wanted faster and an OC ability. So I was dumb and did no research and bought a ABIT Ni8-SLi, and 2 6600 256mb vid cards. The Ni8-SLi only allowed for a 235mhz oc…. This just gave me a taste of OC’ing,
I wanted more.
So I saved some pennys and got a real motherboard (asus P5WD2-E) and an 805D and some Samsung DDR-667.
Ditched the cheap case and got a bigger cheap case. Then felt a urge to try water-cooling… All of my attempts at buying good overclocking hardware before were thwarted resulted in poor choices due to lack of research. This was not goin to happen again. I read about watercooling for around 5 days.
Then purchased:
$45 2x d-tek WW’s (I knew they were a good design and I needed to mod the bracket)
$20 dual 5 ¼ bay res
$55 laing d4
$25 pro 120 rad + sanyo denki (later upgraded to BIXII and two 120CFM Silverstones)
$5 cheapo PVC tubing…
And my first WC system was born.
CORE 2 DUO
I bought a e6400 for $200 that didn’t clock worth its life… I also bought a Xeon 3040 which is my current CPU and a new P5B-Dlx as well as the GX2 i had first RMA'ed
The 8800GTS is the current weapon of choice. 
My recent upgrades consist of
2x1gb Crucial Balistix DDR-1000
1 Mushkin 700w PSU
Also got a thermaltake Armor.
This new case PSU and RAM will be a almost new build for me and i want to make it look nice and haul A$$. Pics to come as soo as parts get here.
PICs soon too come.
