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arekieh · 03-23-08

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Originally Posted by trubritar

thanks for asking...

I love the Zalman Resonator XT...I does a great job of cooling and at the right sound level. I had a Koolance setup with a real noisy 1Kw rad on the back of the rig... pump failed on me last year and it wasn't pretty...the Zalman has ran without a hickup....if you haven't checked on one before...look into it!

On my Crysis Cruncher rig, it cools a QX6850 and 3 8800 superclocked ultras...it keeps tthe temps below 50'c. so it seems to be doing something right....it doesn't however look as radical as some of the other options though.

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Originally Posted by dr4gon

the best you could do was koolance?

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Originally Posted by ImmortalKenny

I lol'd when I saw the Zalman Watercooling kit.
Other than that nice rig.

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Originally Posted by FZ0

Is zalman gear really worth the setup though? Watercooling is fairly straight forward but it does take time and effort.

I doubt it would perform better than air cooling, if you have the cash to spend there's no reason not to go with a custom loop.

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Originally Posted by H3||scr3am

why the crappy cooling system? build a custom go for 5Ghz

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Originally Posted by Gollie

I watched the video up to the point where it showed the 3Dmark score.

Personally I would be PISSED. $10k does not get you much more than $1500.

Basically sums up my question:

A: You have 2 retardedly expensive/amazing rigs...........
Why would you go uber cheap on your WC? Youd think youd go for the best of the best, same goes for your case......
B: Can you elaborate on teh Crysis Cruncher? and whats in it?

yannis7777 · 03-23-08

As i already said there is nothing like it that i know of atm, and the video is also professionally done.
Really, how much could a beauty like this cost to build man?

Leck · 03-23-08

Didn't someone hit a record for 32,000 in 3dMark06?

How is this rig barely pushing 18,000? Can't a single 3870x2 get that?

Me thinks driver issues

Rolandooo · 03-23-08

My bet is driver related aswell. Very nice rig, but talk about OVERKILL

Enjoy it.

Also when you score the 18,000 what was your CPUs clocked at? Sounds very low.

Leck · 03-23-08

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Originally Posted by Rolandooo

My bet is driver related aswell. Very nice rig, but talk about OVERKILL

Enjoy it.

Also when you score the 18,000 what was your CPUs clocked at? Sounds very low.

Well even then with an extreme at stock speeds (I think 3.0?) theres no way in hell he should've been getting 18,000 lol

Dillard13 · 03-23-08

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Originally Posted by Leck

Well even then with an extreme at stock speeds (I think 3.0?) theres no way in hell he should've been getting 18,000 lol

The stock speeds on those CPU's are 3.2 GHz. This has already been said, but 3.2 GHz and 2 9800GX2's in Quad SLI using VERY immature drivers (Which will actually produce a lower than if he were just using a single GX2) producing a score of ~18k sounds about right.

FZ0 · 03-23-08

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Originally Posted by Leck

Didn't someone hit a record for 32,000 in 3dMark06?

How is this rig barely pushing 18,000? Can't a single 3870x2 get that?

Me thinks driver issues

That was with dice or nitrogen I think.

And yes ATI cards are horribly biased in 3DMark06, even though nvidia walks all over them.

sam_bo · 03-23-08

Yeah 18k is too low. I get 17.8k with a single air cooled Q6600 at 3.3 and two 8800 GTX's at stock speeds with stock coolers! And that's running 24/7.

I would expect at least 23k+.

RaiDer · 03-23-08

Very nice rig I must say. But.. It's far to much to pay for the performance, just doesn't work out to be a wise investment imo.

The_Rocker · 03-23-08

I hate you as well.

Dont you find it funny how in this video:

YouTube - 3-way SLI Crysis cruncher

there is no actual crysis gameplay!

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