The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

Not that I'm aware of. The designs are completely different...

@ Omega

Haha just noticed the link in your sig. Nice pic! Here's my latest:

http://i39.tinypic.com/x1wwtl.jpg

I don't quite got the guns yet but that is a work in progress. Air Force at the end of summer methinks...

 

Happy to!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835227006

They have to be bought before the 15th, that's when the rebate deal ends.

I noticed that the surface of the base is extremely flat, and it took a couple of hours for the MX-2 to spread out completely. It's 24C in here right now, and it's idling at 30C. Even the motherboard temps dropped to 35C. You have to do a complete re-think on case airflow. With two fans, forget the Rad entirely, and concentrate on moving the air around inside the case. I removed the 80mm Silverstone, and turned the 40 cfm Scythe into an exhaust fan. I want to use it like this for a few days, and then move the Video Card back to the 16x slot and see what happens.

Stay Tuned,
Russ

 

Russ, you're incredible. No joke...

Estuansis, you look very similar to a buddy here in town

 

Well I'm not counting on a rebate to begin with and I probably won't be buying before the 15th so oh well, lol. But it's between that and Corsair for me right now... Not that my Tuniq 120 is lacking in performance, but I wish I had something that was a bit less reactive to ambient temps. Turn the heat on and it idles warm...

@Omega

Haha I'm keeping a counting tally. You're like person number 1 million to say I look similar to someone they know! lol

 

I know what you mean jeff. We ran the A.C. today, And I saw those wonderful low idle temps again. 35C. Which is pretty good for the high overclock, on Air cooling. even during encoding, it barely broke 40C. Gotta love air conditioning. But now, its idling at 43C again I really gotta give this water cooling more thought. The Tuniq is incredible, but if I can keep the temps down at both idle and load, this room won't get quite soo warm Plus it'll no doubt boost longevity. Not that processors have a bad track record. I've heard of Damn few bad processors. I have several that are a decade old, and older. I just like knowing that everything is kosher

 

LOL Never had or seen a bad CPU in my life. Several with crushed cores though and my Q9450 which had stuck temp sensors but otherwise ran fine. Replaced it with my good old Q6600 though which was a great find anyway at the rare 1.25VID ;P

As far as ambient temps yeah they are important to me as well. Especially considering I'm running a first production run 940 from when they first released... Yeah 1.35VID plus current 1.45 = one hot puppy

If I had any sort of liquid loop I know this chip can do 3.9GHz with 1.55v. And considering it would be under liquid 1.55 would also be "kosher" lol.

 

Thank you, my Friend. I appreciate that. Don't forget though, I was 100% wrong about what I thought the case airflow would do without the Freezer 64. It took me about two seconds to realize I had forgotten about the Freezer 64's fan. It cools the VRMs. I did get a handle on the temps though! LOL!! This thing just runs so sweet at 3.9GHz.

I took your advice and lowered the HT Link Frequency to 2210MHz. It does perform slightly better that way. At the moment, I'm pretty pleased with how it's all worked out!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

Estuansis : Get it B4 the 15th 4 the rebate. Put it on your Credit Card, that will give U an xtra 30 days to pay 4 it.Then just DIVIDE the cost in two, add the cost to your C.C. Payment,in two payments. That way U won't run short, and it gives U two mons 2 pay for it

 

Estuansis : Get it B4 the 15th 4 the rebate. Put it on your Credit Card, that will give U an xtra 30 days to pay 4 it.Then just DIVIDE the cost in two, add the cost to your C.C. Payment,in two payments. That way U won't run short, and it gives U two mons 2 pay for it
IT'S REALLY 2 GOOD OF A DEAL 2 PASS UP

 

Whats anoying

 

I was going to say something about it as well. It makes your posts more effort to read, and it does generally pee me off, as well as Creaky. If you have a medical reason to write shorthand, write shorthand, don't just talk in textspeak.

 

Kiss My Funkinwagnel

 

what an encyclopedia of knowledge this thread has become...

 

sam, that's kind of mean, that creaky pisses you off

 

Agreed!!! <<< I love saying that.. NOT!!

 

OLOLOLOL You know what I meant!

 

sammorris : OLOLOLOL is this any different than ( B4 2U FU XTRA )
If so pleese splain

 

It's an expression of sarcastic humour. There aren't really any words that replace it as an expression. When I write a sentence though, I make sure to use actual words.
You don't get charged per character writing a forum post as you might a text message on a phone, so there is no reason to use textspeak in a forum.

 

Could we all dispense with this inane BS and get this thread back on topic. No one should have been involved but Creaky (MOD) and Rick (Member), in the first place! Creaky asked Rick very nicely not to do it. At that point it should have become no one else's business.

Sam, I'm sorry, but you shouldn't have said a word. It was after the fact, and a Mod had already brought it up, and had specifically asked Rick not to do it. If you had been thinking of saying something, you should have done it before, not after Creaky asked him not to do it. I somehow don't think Creaky needs an assistant! It started out between Creaky and Rick, and it should have stayed that way IMO!

Russ