mr_knowitall15
10-17-2005, 11:15 PM
Today, after work i went over to Sirbarbarosas house. He was installing a cool watercooling kit in his new rig consisting of a Gigabyte 955x mobo, 2x512 Corsair PC6400, and a 6600 Passive cooled (Asus i think) vid card. He has two CPUS for this rig, and 830, and a 640 that seems to be a real Jesus, as it was brought back from the dead.
A while ago, He found this setup with the 640, a 250 GB HDD, both CD-RW and DVD-RW drives for a helluva good price on Ebay. Well, when he got it in, Good ol UPS MASSACRED IT!!! It was obviously dropped a time or two, because teh heatsinks retaining bolts were snapped, and the heatsink AND the 640 were at the bottom of the beautiful silverstone case. The heatsink Pulled the CPU Through the sockets retaining bracket, because as i said, the proc was out, but the socket was still clipped shut!!! anyway, the ram had a little dent on top, no big deal, and it works fine. the CPU even has a little nick in the IHS, but no big deal apparently as it fired up tonight, and at about 38 degrees idle, 42 or so under a load. So long story short, with the money UPS paid because the package was insured, he got a new mobo of the same kind, an 830, and tryed everything else and it seemed to be just fine.
SO today, i go over after work and we start playing around with it, we effortlessly OCed to 3.84 on stock volts, which made for a 34.133 Sec Pi run (only .4 secs away from what i get at almost 4.1 :mad: ) So we turned up the CPU voltage a bit once we found instability, and soon found a 255 FSB, for around 4.1, and the memory was at 340 Mhz, and after a little testing and memory tweaking, we got this :
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a351/mr_knowitall15/9000.jpg
Seems kinda high, but the system IS running really well... More to come soon hopefully, Hes supposed to have a SS unit coming in from PC_ICE soon :stick: , also, when we get more time, well do more PI and Some 3DMarks and PCMarks. Maybe we can convince anothe guy to let us borrow his PCI-E 6800GT for some more serios 3D and PCMark scores...
A while ago, He found this setup with the 640, a 250 GB HDD, both CD-RW and DVD-RW drives for a helluva good price on Ebay. Well, when he got it in, Good ol UPS MASSACRED IT!!! It was obviously dropped a time or two, because teh heatsinks retaining bolts were snapped, and the heatsink AND the 640 were at the bottom of the beautiful silverstone case. The heatsink Pulled the CPU Through the sockets retaining bracket, because as i said, the proc was out, but the socket was still clipped shut!!! anyway, the ram had a little dent on top, no big deal, and it works fine. the CPU even has a little nick in the IHS, but no big deal apparently as it fired up tonight, and at about 38 degrees idle, 42 or so under a load. So long story short, with the money UPS paid because the package was insured, he got a new mobo of the same kind, an 830, and tryed everything else and it seemed to be just fine.
SO today, i go over after work and we start playing around with it, we effortlessly OCed to 3.84 on stock volts, which made for a 34.133 Sec Pi run (only .4 secs away from what i get at almost 4.1 :mad: ) So we turned up the CPU voltage a bit once we found instability, and soon found a 255 FSB, for around 4.1, and the memory was at 340 Mhz, and after a little testing and memory tweaking, we got this :
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a351/mr_knowitall15/9000.jpg
Seems kinda high, but the system IS running really well... More to come soon hopefully, Hes supposed to have a SS unit coming in from PC_ICE soon :stick: , also, when we get more time, well do more PI and Some 3DMarks and PCMarks. Maybe we can convince anothe guy to let us borrow his PCI-E 6800GT for some more serios 3D and PCMark scores...