E8500 and PALiT 9600GT "Vanillas" - 93K '01 and 21485 '06
First the CPU
http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/6885/cpuaj6.jpg
is capable of -
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So my E8400 died and this is its replacement, I am so happy!
The cards clocked well in stock form - 650 core - up to 750 core and 1000 mem (900 stock)... I felt I could do better and decided to preform a vmod on both cards (figured out by largon ) and settled on 1.3v for now getting to a stable 845/2112/1000 (no mem mod)...for cooling I switched to Accelero S1 Rev2 air coolers with standard 120mm fans.
now as far as cooling goes I use Dunieks 2 piece Aluminum pot with DICE and Acetone ... got like 25-30 lbs for just freaking $10 USD :up:
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/781/dicekf9.jpg
Specs
E8500
Evga 790i Ultra (testing was on P04)
PALiT 9600GTs "vanilla" in SLI
OCZ Platinum 1600 7-7-7-20 running as close to 1000MHz as possible @ 8-7-7-24 2T
dual Raptor 74GB (16MB) in RAID 0
PC P&C 750 Crossfire Edition
XP PRO
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I will post some of the pics of my setup and provide ORB links here in a bit as I am swamped w/ things to be done ... not all were submitted as I didn't feel I had gotten to the best yet...
Please feel free to add any comments or tips that you would feel useful in my screenshots
Thanks
-Ryan
here are the e8500 SLI results w/ DICE (2nd time doing so):up: :up: :up: :up:
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http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/363/2148506tt2.jpg
which gets me this-:D
Now running with the "big dogs" you think?:confused:
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