Project "XETM" - Worklog (56k Warning)

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Small Update! November 05-2007

Ok, so as i said, the new board from my good friend Turtletrax is working

I had some problems tho. At first, i hooked everything (4GB RAM, G80s in SLI and Q6600) on air with stock cooler and booted. All went fine. I installed Vista and all required and latest drivers, loaded 3Dmark06 and got a 13k result... I was like WTF! I do that on a Single 8800GTX with my E6600 @ 3.7Ghz and RAM @ 1000Mhz 5-5-5-15 on my P5B Deluxe. So, i worked around. Installed a fresh Vista copy again, tried single card, formated again, reinstalled drivers lots of times etc... and finally, i thought "Hey, im running 2 8800GTXs in SLI on a Stock Q6600 (2.4Ghz) and im expecting something like 17k" lol

So, when running with a single 800GTX, i was getting like 10k. Thats all stock. Q6600 G0 @ 2.4Ghz (On stock cooler), Ram @ 800Mhz 5-5-5-15 *2GB* and nothing tweaked in Bios. When running dual cards in SLI, I'd get 13k.

So i thought, maybe by Ocing the CPU, I'll get a higher score? So, i went ahead and teared apart the system. Hooked my Tuniq tower on that new mobo and booted. Now i was running SLI and i started working on the Oc. I oced the Q6600 to 3Ghz with 1.32v Stable. I just ran 3Dmark06 tonight and here is what i got :



So that means that Ocing the CPU about 600Mhz = close to 3K more in 3Dmark06! So, for a normal Oc, say 3.6Ghz, I'd get around 18k Now thats better Heh! Maybe if i Oc a little more those 8800GTXs factory oced, i can manage 20k!

Anybody in here have 8800GTXs in SLI with a Quad core? What kind of score are they getting? Thanks!

PS: More updates will come tomorrow. I will try to Oc a bit more that CPU tonight and tomorrow i need to go grab my new G11 keyboard, my G9 mouse and those 2 Chrom barbs for my PA120.2! While I'm out, I'll go grab a few bottles of Distilled water @ my drug store And I'll get ready for the Watercooling part of the project!

EDIT: Here is where i am going to place the pumps.





I still gotta think how i am going to loop all that. I'll post pics with a new sketch-up tomorrow For now, I'm dead tired of that big day @ work... So I'm going to take it easy and go die in my new bed!

PS: Don't mind the dust all over the case... This project (And case..) has been sitting in my table for weeks now..