drummer4lifex

I thought you guys might want to know that for my brother's birthday, we got him some computer parts to upgrade. Now, after a few setbacks, I have the system together outside the case. I'm looking for a new case. Right now it's priming at 2500Mhz. I'll post screen shots and update when I get home later tonight.

Here are the specs:
Opteron 146 (2.5Ghz at 1.35v so far) w/Lapped Big Typhoon**
DFI CFX-3200 DR
PowerColor x1900xt w/Zalman heat pipe cooler
Patriot RAM (2 x 512MB) 2-3-2-5 208.3 Mhz
WD 80GB SATA
SB Live!
DVD RW

Temps right now are 27/37 with the BT

**Aside about lapping the BT
So, when we were first starting the build, slydog and I were talking about how people lap their heatsinks by sanding them down with really fine sand paper to make them shiny and improve conductivity. So my brother says "I have some crappy sand paper in the garage," and we respond, "no that's probably not a good idea". Before we even notice, he runs down and gets 80 GRIT SANDPAPER and starts to sand the bottom of the BT. So then we were like "What are you DOING!?" After laughs and agonies, we rushed out to the stores and got the right sand paper. Then we had to lap it. But it turned out okay!

slydog64

I was the slave that had to lap it for 2 hours!

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Cyberdruid "let us pour out 40s of water wetter for the Homies that have no silicon to smoke, UV to react, keyboards to clack....waiting outside cyberspace for some package to arrive from Newegg or TigerDirect."

check in on my water cooling build log
http://www.overclock.net/water-cooli...build-log.html

Ropey

LOL - Lapping to the 'nth degree.

That Opteron should easily make 2.8 - 2.9GHz.

R

slydog64

Yea, we primied it last night at 2.2 And i guess he bumped it up to 2.5 today. If ive learned anything its that the longer you take to find out your max overclock, the better it will be.

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# A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked just fine.
# The number one cause of computer problems is computer solutions.
Cyberdruid "let us pour out 40s of water wetter for the Homies that have no silicon to smoke, UV to react, keyboards to clack....waiting outside cyberspace for some package to arrive from Newegg or TigerDirect."

check in on my water cooling build log
http://www.overclock.net/water-cooli...build-log.html

tylerand

OMG thats for his birthday, i only got $50 for my b-day and thats it (My sister got like $210 )!! Man i wish i had that.

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drummer4lifex

Well, he put down $400 of his own money. The x1900xt was between my mom and dad, and I bought the RAM (and an airsoft gun which was a surprise. It's an x-sniper for those who might like to know).

Namrac

Your brother's a lucky guy, that's one hell of a system.

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Audio Setup:
PC: JRiver Jukebox ASIO > MHDT Constantine+ > Singlepower MPX3 SLAM > Sennheiser HD580
OCN Headphone Club. Because computers don't suck up enough of my money.

blade_3k

nice good system im getting my b-day system in like 5 days gona go pick up most parts this weekend. Solid system

drummer4lifex

I have a feeling the OC on this chip will be real nice!

Check out those load temps!!!

So far... (look below)

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drummer4lifex

Update:
Here's what it looked like when we first got everything in there.




Playing with some EL wire. Whoops! Not enough...


Turbine Fan + Big Typhoon =




After a little bit of cable management Almost done with it too

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