New Gaming Rig now Online

[Thor]

there u go..I told a lie..i forgot i dropped the clock a little when I've been playing. But there it is.

35 and 36 Idle

49 and 52 Load

Nice, I did have it at 3.4GHz yesterday but as soon as I ran Orthos the program came up with errors after only a minute odd. 3.28GHz will do me fine for the moment, I might try and O/C it some more over the weekend maybe.

What CPU Core voltage did you set it at in the BIOS?
As for some reason CPUZ doesn't show the voltage to which you set it at in the BIOS, it fluctuates a bit.

Does anyone know about the Power connectors on the P5B Deluxe & Enermax Galaxy PSU?

TIA, James.

[staffsMike]

It does jump between that and 1.38.

In the bios its set to something like 1.41 maybe more cant remember.

[DecomposingStar]

Awesome machine... Well thought out aswell.

I'm thinking not bad temps, but more importantly - damn, water cooling makes tidy cabling hard it seems!

Why would you need good tidy cabling with
A) a case without a window, no-ones gunna see it
B) a case with water cooling, it doesn't need good airflow.

[staffsMike]

tidy case...tidy mind

[arbitor]

sexual rig man

[DecomposingStar]

tidy case...tidy mind

As i said, you're using air cooling, you need to have a tidy case.
And a good job you've aswell

[zashark]

Thor thats looks NICE except 1 thing buddy, i think i could help you with tidying that system up!, how you ask my friend, well its simple pull out that big rotten 8800 thing of a card and send it via special delivery this way, quickly, quickly!

[Thor]

tidy case...tidy mind

That the new Invisible ram is it?

[staffsMike]

Since the slots its in are Blue...id say there was some mighty fine Geil RAM in there

[StaffsKieran]

Awesome machine... Well thought out aswell.




Why would you need good tidy cabling with
A) a case without a window, no-ones gunna see it
B) a case with water cooling, it doesn't need good airflow.

I disagree you still need good airflow over your HD's, RAM, PWM's etc especially when you overclock. But otherwise nice rig.

P.S. Mike i need you to tidy my rig up when i get my tj-09

[Thor]

I disagree you still need good airflow over your HD's, RAM, PWM's etc especially when you overclock. But otherwise nice rig.

P.S. Mike i need you to tidy my rig up when i get my tj-09

I have good airflow.
Upper HDD cage has a built-in 120mm fan which covers the 4 HDD's plus lets in air to send to the mobo and attached devices.

Lower HDD's get airflow from the triple 120mm rad fans.

The Ram is cooled by the Corsair Dominator Fan directly over it.
The Mobo is cooled by the Asus Optional fan that came with the mobo, both the Ram & Mobo coolers get their air intake from the upper 120mm hdd cage fan, it's exhausted through the upper rear 120mm exhaust fan. The graphics card has a slot cooler taking away hot air from the passive cooling on the card.

Temps for the gpu are very good, haven't seen the GPU go over 46C while 3dMark was running.

staffsMike
You say your temps we're 5C difference using air, but what about your GPU temps? My cooling system cools both cpu & gpu and it does so quietly, the only noisy thing in my rig is the PSU and I’m working on fixing that.

5 Days in and Vista is getting my back up, prolly gonna go back to XP Pro this week.

[staffsMike]

Temps for the gpu are very good, haven't seen the GPU go over 46C while 3dMark was running.

staffsMike
You say your temps we're 5C difference using air, but what about your GPU temps? My cooling system cools both cpu & gpu and it does so quietly, the only noisy thing in my rig is the PSU and I’m working on fixing that.

hoping you wouldnt ask to be honest

it maxes around 65..which tends to affect my cpu temps a little too. I have a cunning plan for that though.

My case is pretty quiet. It's mainly just the sound of the air moving around inside rather than bearing noise etc..

air cooling will never touch water cooling just cant face the cost of doing it lol

[Thor]

hoping you wouldnt ask to be honest

it maxes around 65..which tends to affect my cpu temps a little too. I have a cunning plan for that though.

My case is pretty quiet. It's mainly just the sound of the air moving around inside rather than bearing noise etc..

air cooling will never touch water cooling just cant face the cost of doing it lol

Heh, you wanna get the new Zalman air cooler for the 8800 series, when it's released that is, looks the dogz and hopefully quiet too. Yeah the cost was quite substantial, probably cheaper to go for an all in one water cooling system at first, maybe that new Zalman Reserator XT. But I wanted one that would be quiet, good performance and would fit inside my current rig and it does all that, no more external cooling for me.

Formatting this rig tonight and going back to XP Pro.

[staffsMike]

would be nice to have a system that I know will be cool running whatever I do to it..but thats half the fun I supose and thats all this pc was meant to be for me.

[Kielty]

tidy case...tidy mind

I agree, core 2 duo x6800 oc 3.2ghz air cooled, idle 37c

[staffsMike]

finished mine off the other day..



who needs case tidying stuff