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Stevesy515
01-21-2006, 07:36 PM
One of the Pictures aren't too great because I had to use my cell phone for it couldn't find my camera.
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Just my computer.

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Nothing too special. I'm just deciding if I should try to install a custom blowhole for my case but afraid I'll **** it up.

Ok I've not attemted to get it any higher than 3.71. I just upped the fsb to around 230 and it's at that but hopefully someone can help me as to whether I can overclock it more. Here is some info about my computer. I built it inside a Thermaltake Tsunami Dream.
Pentium 4 3.2ghz EE I got really cheap off ebay because the seller posted as a regular 3.2 but in the picture it said extreme edition on the chip. So not sure how much of an advantage EE is over normal but anyways here's something I'm kind of wondering about, I have the P4P800-E Asus Mobo with 4 kingston hyper X rams in it and 2 of them are 256 and 2 of them are 512 at different timings. The 2 512s are a PC3500 I believe both timings are 2.5-4-4-9 and the 2 256s are PC3200 with timings 2-2-2-6.

Should I keep all four? or just use the pc3500s? I have pc 3500 in slot 1 and 3 and pc3200 in slot 2 and 4.

I'm using an oc'ed ati x800 xl 422/538.

The CPU-Z program says it's a Gallatin stepping 5 Multiplier is at X 16.0 Vcore at approx 1.6

According to Asus Probe 2.25 my CPU Temp is 24C idle and my MoBo Temp is 21C. Not sure how to test for load temp

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I'm using a Cooler Master I bought from a garage sale haha but it's in very good condition model: mini aquagate r120

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Then I'm not sure if this was necessary but I got a cooler master heatsink for the northbridge on my mobo. Anyone know if I just wasted some money for nothing?

Anti
01-27-2006, 07:38 AM
blow hole on the top is a GOOD idea
the thing is hot air rises, so why not suck it all out faster.
i definatly recommend it. either use a hole saw, or a dremel, dremel preferabley if you can get a hold of one form a friend or something.

if u want to go further either cut out the back fangrill for the back 120mm fan with either the dremel, or wirecutters.

installing a fan at the front is a good idea too.
i also hope you bought arctic silver 5 and used that too.
it is a thermal paste, for makign contact from the cpu to the heatsink helps ALOT!

idle temps dont do much for us, get load temps by running a torture test on prime95(google that) and let it sit for 15-30 minutes and give us the reading then.

the aquagate watercooling system was probably a good idea depending on how much you spend on it. how much?

basically you want to keep your temperatures UNDER 50*C
im not sure what the highest voltage you can go with on a gallatin, ask around a little more.

what you want to do is increase your FSB till either 1, prime95 no longer is stable(it fails) 2, temperature goes above 50*C

if temperature is not an issue, but prime95 is still failing, raise the vcore then try it.(but first find out the max vcore a gallatin can handle)


for the ram, my mind goes blank to if you can run dual channel with mix-matched sticks of ram. i suggest using sisoft sandra, its a benchmarking program you can download. Run the memory benchmark with the 2x512mbs in dual channel, then again with 4 sticks of ram. whichever one scores better, us that setup. (unless you need more then 1gig of ram)