Help the newbie with his build!!

[Talonman]

Between the WaterKegIII Xtreme, water block selection, D-TEK FuZion Nozzle Kit, D-TEK FuZion Pro Mount, Lapping the CPU, and MX-2 used for my TIM, something paid off!!

Even my SB sink/fan combo seems to do well.

My 62F basement also is helping I'm sure...

[Buckeye]

HAHA yeah it did. Gratz Talon !!

[Talonman]

Thanks man!

I have the proper system now, to keep up with a speedy GPU!

I am going to tame Crysis some day, with max everything, at 1920 x 1200!

Note my signature update...
Processor: Q6600 G0 @ 3.8GHz

It just needed to be done. You can't have any street cred on XtremeSystems running stock!

[Talonman]

Just for the record:

One thing I noted about Prime95: If you look at my 3.7GHz screen shot I hit 48C. Prime95 during the 1HR to 1.5 hour timeframe, does some extra heat generating calculations or something....
During my 3.7GHz test I went 1.5 hours of Prime95 when I took that screen shot. It drove my temps to a new high, and mostly the last few C were in the last 1/2 hour.

As I recall my high temps were around 40C at the hour mark in that test too.

You can drive your temps up a few C more if you go to 1.5 hours I think, over just running 1.

Not really sure.

Some of the boys in the IP35-Pro thread were discussing about how letting Prime95 run for 24 hours or so, may actually dammage your CPU due to excessive stress. Some further think that no real life situaction, even demanding games, will ever stress your CPU like hours of Priming does.

I tend not to like to Prime for hours and hours, and buy into the thinking that 1 solid hour of Prime95 is stable enouigh for a gameing rig like mine...

I also am of the mindset that even Crysis won't drive my temps up any higher than 1 full hour running Prime95. It is a brutal program! To me the numbers still stand as a valid measuring stick to what I can expect my 'real world' max temp to be, playing any game.

I think given extended time, Prime95 could take them a wee bit higher, but also feel only Prime would do so. Not a huge concern to me...
I just gotta believe my cool running 3.8GHz Quad system, is just waiting for a Bad Boy GPU to eat up some searious games now.
I have my 1000W PSU just waiting to feed something nasty too.

Fact: The Nvidia 256MB 8600GT is currently the fastest GPU I have ever owned...
I am going to be in for a ride!! Where is that 9800GTX anyway?

[Buckeye]

I ran BFG 8800 GTX OC's in SLI on my striker for awhile. Maybe it was then drivers where not that great but I was not to impressed with SLI then, now just running one 8800 GTX.

But that said...

With what ever Nvidia releases I am really looking at a single card solution that can go TRI SLI. So if they do actually make a 9800 GTX or something even better that is what I am planning on setting up. I am not that crazy about that other new card 9800GX2 or what ever it is as I prefer a single GPU card.

[Talonman]

Me too..

[Buckeye]

So if you put your PC into a an aquarium and filled it with mineral oil and used the Keg to circulate the oil you might have something like this. Crazy !! Forget blocks HAHA

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/t...-system-video-