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my 226w pelt on my mcw5000-pt is going on the meanwell, and I don't want to have to spend another $90 if it will work off of my regular psu. I will see how it works...I am gonna pick up another psu for another comp...maybe a 480w enermax. They have realy high amps, so that could be good for the mcw50-t with my comp...i can test and compare it to the pcp&p and see if they realy are as good as everyone says.

My Enermax 460 rev 1.2 is rated for 33 amps on the 12v rail so the 480 should handle it. I just remember reading somewhere that pelts are hard on atx psu's at startup. Post results when you try it out, I would like to see how it handles the pelts. I would like to go to 172w pelts but that takes a 24v psu and I got enough dough in this rig already.

2fast...are you running your mem at 240 1:1 for ddr480(in your sig)? That is pretty high for xms3500c2...how high can you get with tight timings? I am gonna be pelting my intel rig up to realy high fsb's (300+) and even with the 5:4 divider that is still pretty high. I have some mem that can do ddr482 @ 2-3-2-6, but I want 2-2-2-x and it might need to go above ddr482. I will be doing a vdim mod to about 3.3-3.4v so i think that mem can handle it, if not I am looking for the cheapest bh-5 chips I can find. The buffalo 3700 seems to be the cheapest so far. People pretty much can get as high as they want with out the mem limiting them with 5:4 divider and 2-2-2-x with bh-5 chips@3.3v so it seems like that might be where I am headed.

I have to loosen up the timings to get stable @ 240. 7-3-3-2.5 to get through 3d01 without a crash. I haven't tried any other timings other than 7-3-3-2.5 and 5-2-2-2, the later of which I like to run. That is without the mem volt mod, which I just did today, and I have to get the water rig back together to test it. I think these are bh-5 but I can't see it for the heat srpeaders. The mem was holding me back on the fsb so the volt mod should do the trick and let me go back to 5-2-2-2

You will have to mod the 3v rail to get 3.4V on the mem vmod and that would fry most mem IMO.

and thx again
well it isnt a virgin mod its my second :D
i havnt pics of the first sorry but i m working on a new projekt :D

2fast4u that was very nice sir! I love how well you've kept everything nice and tidy! Keep up the awesome work dude. :D

Oh and btw XMS3500CAS2 uses BH-5 memory. :)

2fast4u: I like how your camera makes the computers look like chicks in 80's Penthouses... you'll know what I mean if you look at it. Not that I do often, but just saying... >_< *cough*

And Nemesis, what others have said... I like it alot! Always nice to see something totally custom!

§§§§ for a minute i thought there was a bra hanging on the lamp shade

Thanks for the compliments guy's. No, thats not a bra, It's my sunglasses hanging from a lamp! Neat is not a word I understand, at least not outside the case! And thanks to COLIN for the heads up on the bh-5 chips. I thought I was going to have to pull the heatspreaders today as that was bugging me to know what I had under there.

Keep us posted on that new mod nemesis...I would love to see how it turns out.

2fast...I have seen a whole lot of people running bh-5 at 3.3-3.4v inorder to get them upto about ddr500@2-2-2-x, and I haven't seen to many of them getting fryed. If you use buffalo 3700 than it isn't all that much to begin with, so frying them isn't a huge problem. I think I will only need like 3.1v or so to get my current geil gd to ddr500 2-2-2-x. I am curious to see how your bh-5 respond. I am assuming you modded the 3.3v line to raise your vdim? Mine is at 3.5v right now i think...that is what it says in the hardware monitor, which confuses me becuase I haven't done any mods on my nf7-s yet...

I just noticed that the 4pda2+ rev2 has 1.8v or so vcore, and 3.3v vdim. That is realy high...wouldn't need any vmods...I am assuming it is the same for the 4pca3+, so I wonder how their preformance compares to p4c800 and ic7. I don't realy know how these epox boards preform becuase they aren't very wide spread in the us...and that was epox's own choice.

If anyone can shed some light on these epox boards for me I would appreciate it.

ok, over the past few weeks, my Dad and I, have been getting the shed we built over 8 years ago, prepped up for my new workstation. this is where all my benching will be going on, especially on those cold cold new england winter days/nights :)

well here goes, we gotta take a small trip/hike to get there :p:

gotta walk up 9 stairs, big pain in the winter time, with 2 feet of snow or more!!

here is the shed from the front (or side, whatever)

shed is locked when no one is in there

here is a "overall view"

here is a closeup of the actual bench, with just the monitor..

i still have some work to do, (tools and stuff still lying around :p:)

here is the "from the inside, out" view..

gotta remember to turn these lights off!

here's a view of our house from the hill.. :cool:

Nice house.

yea man, i would love a place like that, looks like you have plenty of room! its so crouded in huston :(

seems like it will be a great oc'ing house/shed, except for the fact that you will have to be in the cold. I stick my desktop outside, and have all my cables coming in through the closed door. It can get kind of cold in atl in the winter...not like new england, but can stay in the 20's for a month or so. I can stay in the warmth the whole time too...and the room is huge.

thanks guys...

just got a bunch of materials ready... shed is cleaned up even more!

so far i have the sealstring (auto glass sealer), 1/2"ID-3/4"OD 10ft vinyl tubing, ViaAqua 1300 pump, about to get a 8000btu air conditioner, and insulation

GL...on your testin....keep us updatin w/ pics of rigs and scores..plz!!!!