Alright, time for me to make a relevant post to this thread. Hopefully there is a booby prize category for self contained daily driver ambient water rigs, not intended to compete in the clean car competitionI'd love a golden c2 or c3 sample, or a 5850. Don't force me to try and voltmod my 4850!
So, I didn't have the best c3 sample, but I worked with what I had, and I had fun and learned some things. And it's faster than my two month old unlockable 550be (one weak core) that's now sitting on my desk. Some of you guys are seriously extreme.Charged suggested I try more extreme cooling, but I'll have to work on my wife for that to happen. Wish me luck!
Wow, I'm such a forum noob. Let me know if I need to redo the images! Shots are rig, screenshot at 30 min under load in p95 blend, screenshot 5 min after blend ended, and gratuitous shot of my block and rad.
The water cooling is mostly 5 year old swiftech stuff. Not nearly as complicated as the chiller setups here, but fun to tinker with. I had to make a cpu waterblock adapter from a piece of old computer case, since it was for socket A. It was a bugger to cut the holes for the adapter, since I didn't have a hole saw that small and it was hard to turn a jigsaw with a metal blade virtually in place! I just added the 4 polished aluminum push/pull fans. Of course, they are slightly too big, so I had to drill new holes in the tabs of the rad, directly adjacent to the old. The fans are 2200 rpm adjustable, currently on bust! There are 1200 rpm intake and exhaust fans in the case.
I could reach 3.9 gig on otherwise stock settings at 1.4875v, but I tried 4 gig at 1.55 and no joy. I tried for a nice balance, so the run in the pics is 3850 @ 1.475v, cpunb is 2750 @ 1.3125v, ram is 1666 c7 1t tight sub (had to go with 250 ref and 1333 divider, no post 1600 c7). Core was 49C at 30 min under load, and dropped to 33.5C 5 min later, with ambient around 23.
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