Any Overclockers/Hardware enthusiasts in the house?

Dr_Rockter · Moderator Joined: Jun 01, 2004 Posts: 21

Hello to all posters and lurkers,

Are there any hardware enthusiasts/overclockers in the house?

If so, come forth and post your specs, overclocks, and maybe all problems you have in the quest for that Mhz playing hard to get...
Very Happy

My rigs:

AMD

Athlon T-Bird AXIA 1Ghz @ 1.45
Abit KT7-A
512 Crucial RAM
2X40Gig IBM Deskstars
ATI Radeon 8500
Sound Blaster Live
Pioneer 106 DVD Rom
Yamaha 8/4/24 SCSI CDRW
Cambridge Soundworks Digital 2.1 Speakers
Relisys 17" CRT Monitor

INTEL

Pentium 4 3.2HT 800FSB
Abit IC7-G MAX 2
1Gig Dual Channel PC3200 OCZ RAM
1X200Gig SATA Maxtor DiamondMax9
ATI Radeon 9800 All In Wonder
SoundBlaster Audigy 2
Creative Inspire 5.1 Digital 5500 Speakers
Sony DVD Rom
NEC 2500a DVDRW
LG Flatron 17" TFT monitor

I am looking for a quiet cooling solution for the Pentium, can anybody reccomend something powerful and silent?

billy · Students Cafe Fresher Joined: Apr 21, 2004 Posts: 17

Sound nice. My next sistem will be something like that. My problem is the noice though. A silent sistem is my dream. I was thinking about a water-cooling sistem but seems too dangerouse. I don't want to electrify myself after all Very Happy

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Dr_Rockter · Moderator Joined: Jun 01, 2004 Posts: 21

Hi,
Watercooling is not that dangerous as long as you know what youre doing, Im quite tempted to try that someday. Maybe try those new Watercooling rigs that fit in two 5.25 slots..

Rich · Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 7:48 pm Post subject:

Am into my hardware quite a bit, just wish I had the money to do what I wanted.

My 18 month old system:

AMD 27000+ (stock 2.17) @ 2.6
Radeon 9700 pro, variable o/c'd.
1024Mb 2700 Kingston RAM
3x120 Gig HD's with 8mb cache each.
SB Audigy 2 Platinum with 5.1 speakers
Thermaltake Aquarius II Liquid Cooling
Inline water temp monitor
Then just stock stuff ontop CDRW/DVDRW/nforce2 motherboard etc.

A top daddy system when I got it, but those new nVidia 6800 ultra cards put us all to shame.

Totally recommend www.extremecooling.co.uk for all your cooling solutions.

Rich

Dr_Rockter · Moderator Joined: Jun 01, 2004 Posts: 21

Hi rich,
whats the Aquarious like? worth the money? what kind of temps are you getting? and most of all how silent is it?

Rich · Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 8:57 pm Post subject:

The system is good for the money. It's not a pro overclocker setup by any means but it does the job for me at the moment. Then again if I had more money I'd definatly upgrade. I got it for £70... and there is an Aquarius III around now so it might be cheaper.

You get a pump, radiator, external reservoir, mounting plate, way too much hose, and everything you need to mount it.

Volume? Well... pretty darn quiet. Thats my reason for getting it cause my PC sits on 24hrs a day in the lounge. It's much quieter than your average "quiet" case fan, and about 200 times quiter than a fan that can shift the same amount of heat Very Happy

Temperatures? Well, under serious load (3DMark2003) it runs at about 65C (idle 35C), that's why I havn't overclocked it more Very Happy

But then again AMD's run hot anyway, so you might get a bigger leap with your pentium 4. It's comparable with a decent fan and heatsink setup, which one of my mates has in his system... but you can barley tell mine's on while his sounds like it's gonna take off and fly down marchmont road at any point.

If you've got the money and want a cooling solution to last you a bit, go for another more expensive solution. If however you just want to dable, and see what it can do (like me), you can't really go wrong. Plus there is the volume issue.

May be worth reading a few reviews if you are gonna get into cooling, and have a look at GPU coolers aswell. As alot of games are just bottlenecked by GPU power at the moment.

Dr_Rockter · Moderator Joined: Jun 01, 2004 Posts: 21

Sounds good, I really doubt however that the Pentium will be cooler, the 3.2 is probably the hottest chip of the northwood family, I get temps of about 55c under load using the Intel stock cooler.

As far as silence is concerned it sure sounds tempting! I wouldnt bother with the Aquagate III as it looks really "thermaltakey" (great products, extremely tacky design IMHO)

Another option I was thinking about was getting a top end heatsink (http://www.extremecooling.co.uk/s/product?product=601860) coupled with a silent lowRPM fan.

How do you think that would compare?

Rich · Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 9:36 pm Post subject:

It's a damn good heatsink, one of the best. You can get a decent 92mm fan with it too aparently, after a quick look on google. However, havn't seen anything on volume levels. Though I'd expect it to be pretty quiet as Thermalright don't make crap.

Probably compare just awell, but for me, volume was the major issue as my girlfriend, who I live with hates the constant drone of a computer fan Razz

Women!!

bugmonkey · Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 10:42 pm Post subject:

my very old and outdated rig... but come my next pay check I'll be upgrading, considering going down the A64 route.

Abit KT7A-RAID Motherboard
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.2GHz Processor (Overclocked to 1.3GHZ)
512Mb (2x256Mb) PC133 RAM
Seagate Barracuda 30Gb Hard Drive
2x 40Gb IBM Deskstar Hard Drives (Running as RAID)
Pioneer DVD-106 DVD Drive
Samsung SW-208B CD-R/RW Drive
Asus Radeon 9800 Pro 256Mb (Varible Overclocking)
3D Prophet II Kyro (PCI) Video Driver (Overclocked; Engine Clock: 185MHz, Memory Clock: 175MHz)
LG Flatron 775FT 17" Flat-screen Monitor
Packard Bell 15" CRT Monitor
Trust Televiewer 1600 (TV Out)
4.1 Speakers
Happauge WinTV TV/FM Radio Card
Lian Li Aluminium Tower case
- 3 quiet fans
- blue LED fan on blow hole
- 550W PSU
- Acoustic Sound Matting
Vantec Nexus Fan Speed Contoller

TV Out / Stereo Sound run to Hi-Fi/TV in my living room

also 1.5 boxes worth of mungrel parts that need to be sorted out

even with the quiet fans/speed controller/matting it's still pretty loud so it's not on most nights

once I upgrade this (or parts there of) will become a permentant server in my living room.

Rich · Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 10:51 pm Post subject:

I have a similar setup to you, my PC is linked to the tv in the bedroom and the lounge, and also the hifi.

Used to have a server in my old flat but 3 computers was too much for just me and my girlfriend, as she barley uses hers. Swapped the server for a few CD's, a game pad and a sexy keyboard. Hell the server would just have been aded to my already increasingly large pile of cables and outdated parts. Now Mine just acts as the server.

If you get a A64 I'm jelous. Especially if u get one of the new generation graphics cards aswell Crying or Very sad

fjanten · Moderator Joined: Jun 20, 2004 Posts: 17 Location: Denmark

I have to settle with my laptop when I come to Edinburgh, but it can do for half an year. Very Happy

Gericom Hummer Advance:
AMD xp2600+ mobile
512mb DDR
Radeon 9600 w/64mb
30gb HD
dvd recorder (DVD- 2x)

As long as I can play CS I'm happy. Smile

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donkey · Students Cafe Fresher Joined: Jun 01, 2004 Posts: 46

I may as well add my not very exciting, old system - really needs upgrading:

1.4GHz Althon (w/ Zalman Flower Cooler thang)
Abit KG7-RAID
512MB RAM (2xPC2100)
GeForce 4 Ti4200
Some random sound card, Soundblaster 1024 live! or something?? + Network Card + Firewire Card + Some crappy weird PCI gfx card which i've not been bothered enough to take out Smile

HDDs: 200GB + 160GB + 80GB + 80GB
Lite-On 52x24x52 CD-RW
Pioneer Slot Loading DVD ROM (w/ silver bezel)
OMG Silver Floppy Drive!!
Lian-Li PC70-USB Case

Windows XP Pro
Intellimouse Explorer v3.0
19inch Dell P991 Trinitron Monitor (Black)
Black USB Compaq Keyboard w/ big silver bit at the top!!! liek OMFG!!!
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Poster · Moderator Joined: Jun 02, 2004 Posts: 42

You have 520 GB? Now that's impressive....

donkey · Students Cafe Fresher Joined: Jun 01, 2004 Posts: 46

between my brother and I, we have 980GBs (that's over 3 PCs) + 60GB in his laptop just to push us over the 1TB mark Wink

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Rich · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 1:37 pm Post subject:

I thought my 360 GB was impressive... damn you Razz