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[quote=The Slayer|message:30234444]
I finally got my new case and an actual heatsink! I'm running the [http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129087 Antec DF-85] and [http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181013 Corsair H70].

Loving the case. Stock fans are pretty quiet and combined move a lot of air.

The H70 is pretty sweet. I have yet to see my CPU go over 32c. I'm [http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1541692 running at 4018mhz] right now and its at only 28c. I havent tested full load yet though.

I took a few pictures earlier but only 2 came out decent.

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H70 in action. Its much bigger than I thought and it just fits in there. It covers up part of the 120mm fan. Luckily I have two there. You can see my temperature read out near the bottom of the picture on the motherboard reading 29c. Forgot what speed I was running when I took that though.

[img]http://neo.thegreatchai.com/slayer/IMG_0262.JPG[/img]

Very tight fit in here. I can not use that PCIe x1 slot because the radiator is too big.
[img]http://neo.thegreatchai.com/slayer/IMG_0265.JPG[/img][/spoiler]

I'm about to do a stress test to see how well this overclock handles and how hot it gets. Hopefully it works.
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Jul 31, 07 at 5:35amThe Slayer

As most of you know, my Q6600 system was stolen a few months ago while I was out on a 2 week vacation. Looks like I probably wont be seeing it again. Worst part was loosing about 700GB of stuff, about 1/3rd of it which is irreplaceable and another 1/3rd going to be really hard to replace. I've started the process of rebuilding, which may take a few months. Here is what I have so far:


Intel Core i5 760 2.8ghz
2x 2gb G.Skill DDR3 1600
ECS H55H-CM Micro ATX Motherboard from the Overclocking Competition
XFX Black Edition 850 watt PSU
Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 1GB Flex
Asus DVD Burner
an old Rosewill case I've had for a while. Only has two 120mm fans 
250gb SATA Western Digital drive I found with Windows 7
160gb SATA Western Digital which will have OS X soon 
750gb SATA Seagate 7200.12 for storage

My next upgrade will be a new, full tower case, a new heatsink, new motherboard and a few hard drives. At some point I'll also upgrade to 6gb or 8gb of ram too.

After that I might throw in another video card and have a crossfire and eventually I'll get a SSD (after I have everything else I need). For the SSD I'm planning on either a single 120gb or making a RAID0 with two 60gb drives. I'll install windows 7 and OS X on them for a dual boot.

Old Systems:

Spoiler: Core 2 Quad Q6600 system

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Specifications

Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad, q6600, 3ghz overclocked
RAM: 2x 2GB Corasair XMS2 DDR 800
Motherboard: Gigabyte EP45-DS4
GPU: XFX 8800GS, 386mb
Harddrives: 3x 250gb drives (one external, one for recording with my TV tuner, and the 7200.12 drive for OS), 2x seagate 500gb 7200.11 (one main drive for all my files, I havnt put the other to use yet.), 400gb (external), 750gb (bakup for main files and some TV shows and movies). I also have a 74gb raptor and 160gb drive that dont have a permanent use.
DVD burners: LG SATA DVD burner, ~~Lite On light scribe SATA DVD burner.~~ (lite-on wont work properly)
Audio: Sound Blaster Audigy 4, 5.1 Logitech surround sound
Power Supply: OCZ GamexStream 700 watts
Heatsink: Zalaman cnps9500
Case: Sunbeam Transformer
Operating System: Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.7 retail install with very few modifications

Peripherals

Keyboard/Mouse Logitech wireless MX1000 and included keyboard (no longer used), and a logitech wireless WAVE keyboard.
Monitor Acer 22" glossy widescreen, Samsung 22" HDTV. Both run at 1680x1050. The samsung serves as a TV, Xbox 360 monitor, and a second screen for my computer.

Accessories and Miscellaneous

Hauppauge WinTV PVR 950q USB TV tuner (can capture over the air 1080i)
2X 10" Blue cold cathodes
Thermaltake 4 fan speed controller
Rosewill PCIx1 network card
~~Rosewill PCIx1 SATA card (which is shitty)~~ (sitting in a drawer, unused, might use it if I need any more SATA ports).

Benchmarks

Note: I'm not sure how reliable these are, as I havnt updated them in a while. But since I havnt done many major hardware changes, I trust the results are still pretty accurate.

Super PI:

512k digits ran in 9 seconds, 1M ran in 20 seconds, and 32m ran in 18m, 7 seconds. I ran the 16 and 32k tests, but I guess they compleated too fast to register. 256k ran in 3 seconds.

HD Tune:

An average of 155 is pretty good. I wish it would stay a bit more level, and not dip off at the end though.

Pictures

Side Window

Cover removed

All SATA drives

CPU cooling

My state of the art temperature monitoring system.

Behind the motherboard tray

Rear of the case

Front door open my 4 fan speed controller on top, even though I only have 3 fans connected to it (the front/rear and top).

Tape to hide the fan wires

Right side of my desk

Center, with 22" monitor and xbox 360

Left side with my laptop

my 3.2GB door stop

Task manager and CPUz. For some reason the quality turned really crappy when I saved it from a .bmp to .jpg.

Comments

Not all of the following is still applicable, but I'll keep it anyway.

Right now I just have the mac operating system Leopard (10.5.7) installed on my computer. It was a challenge and took a few days to get running right, but so far its about 99% functional. I'm planning on redoing my fan setup as I discovered that two of my side fans are hardly moving any air at all.

Future Upgrades

So far my system runs as well as I want it too. I dont see any need to do any major upgrades to it. The most I may do is add a blu-ray rom drive when Macs support it (possibly in snow leopard). I may add 2gb of ram to it if I happen to find a great deal on some, but I dont really need it.

Spoiler: Core 2 Quad Q6600 system

Specifications

Peripherals

Accessories and Miscellaneous

Benchmarks

Note: I'm not sure how reliable these are, as I havnt updated them in a while. But since I havnt done many major hardware changes, I trust the results are still pretty accurate.

Super PI:

512k digits ran in 9 seconds, 1M ran in 20 seconds, and 32m ran in 18m, 7 seconds. I ran the 16 and 32k tests, but I guess they compleated too fast to register. 256k ran in 3 seconds.

HD Tune:

An average of 155 is pretty good. I wish it would stay a bit more level, and not dip off at the end though.

Pictures

Comments

Not all of the following is still applicable, but I'll keep it anyway.

Future Upgrades

Spoiler: Laptop

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After many problems with this laptop after nearly 2 years of use, I've finally given up on it. Biggest problem being the motherboard fried and a few other things. Tired of putting money into it. Was pretty good while it lasted though.

My Laptop

I decided to throw in a quick spot on my new laptop. Nothing as detailed as my computer, but a general over view.

Specs:

Brand/Model/Size: HP Pavilion dv9000, 17 inch
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7500, 4MB L2 cache, 2.2GHZ, 800mhz FSB
RAM: 3GB DDR2 677 I think, of some random brand I've never heard of.
Video: 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS
Screen: 1650x1050 Bright View
Hard Drives: 120GB 7200RPM SATA Hitachi drive, 320gb 7200rpm Seagate drive
Optical: 8x DVD RW with Light Scribe.
Operating System: Windows 7 RC1, OS X Leopard
Wireless: Wireless A,B,G, and N networking, and blue-tooth
Peripherals: 2 mega pixel built in webcam, stereo mics, glossy-like finish, 3 USB ports, HDMI, Firewire, SD card reader, a small media player remote that will fit in the expansion bay (they accidentally sent me two of them) and my favorite, a finger print reader.

I'm really impressed with it. I got all of that, and a 1 year accidental damage warranty, for just $1,306 after taxes, and with a $400 off coupon (thanks to Master of the VG for finding that for me!). It runs a whole lot better then my old laptop (1.8ghz semperon, and 1.5gb of DDR, and the worst onboard video I've ever seen). Its as close to my desktop as I can get it. I'm moving out of state over the summer, and living on campus at my next university, so I have to keep my desktop at one place, and carry around my laptop everywhere else. since I dont have much hard drive space (there both almost full already), I will put my 400GB hard drive in my external enclosure and carry it around with me. I like the finger print reader; makes loging into windows a lot easier; instead of typing my password at the log-in screen, I just swipe one of my fingers (have 6 of them programed for it), and it signs me into windows.

Pictures:

On my desk
A close up of the screen
keyboard
the back finish.
(its impossible to see all the finger prints, and dust and junk until the flash goes off)

Benchmark:

HD Tune:

Not as great as my RAID0, but 46.8mb/s isnt too bad.

Spoiler: Laptop

My Laptop

Not as great as my RAID0, but 46.8mb/s isnt too bad.

Updates

Nov. 25th:
~~I decided to try out my 74gb Raptor drive as my windows Vista drive, so far it seems fine.~~ The drive is pretty noisy (if anyone else has that drive, does it seem noisy too?). I got tired of the noise, and it was a bit slower, so I went back to my RAID.
I also bought a 400GB WD drive for backing up all my files too. My two 160GB drives were filling up on me, and at least this way I have it all in one location. I got a great deal on it to; $60 after rebates.
I also have a great ram/processor over clock. I have my processor running at 3ghz stable and cool, on default voltages and a 9 mulitplyer, and my ram is running at around 1,000mhz.

For a future upgrade, I'm thinking about going to 4GB of ram, and possibly a better video card, probably something like the 8600 range.

January 10th, 08:
Updated the page a bit

February 2nd, 08:
Added my laptop.

May 20th, 08:
Updated the specs with a recent upgrade.

July 1st, 09:
Wow, over a year since my last update. Changed the hardware slightly to reflect what I have in it now and added some comments. I also added a few minor things here and there.

[size=1][color=#666666]This message was edited by The Slayer on Aug 28 2010.

Thread Recap (last 10 posts from newest to oldest)

Dec 19, 10 at 12:15am
The Slayer

Most likely the ram. I'm running mixed sets; I have a 1600mhz Gskill kit and the Patriot 2000mhz kit I reviewed. I have the ram at 1608mhz or so at 9-10-9-25 which is around the stock of the patriot kit. Its 8gb total and I dont even need it all

. I'm using 2gb right now but I dont want to take one kit out and just leave it sitting around unused.

If I feel like experimenting with it some more to see how high I can get it I'll take out the gskill kit and see how far I can push it.

I'm pretty amazed at how cool its running though. I've had it on all day and its just stayed around 23-24c. During my benchmarks it went up to 35-54c but only took like 3 seconds to drop back to 24c when it was done.

Dec 18, 10 at 11:31pm
hiigaran

whats the cause of instability? the CPU or the RAM? ill assume the former? shall i also assume youve loosened the timings?

Dec 18, 10 at 9:30pm
The Slayer

Its not pink

. Its red. I guess it does look a little pink in the pictures but I assure you they are red

.

So far its stable at 4018mhz. I can a few CPU benchmarks yesterday and it handled them just fine. I have the bus speed set to 201 and multiplier to 20. I tried raising the multi to 21 for a speed of around 4200mhz but couldnt get windows to boot

. I may just keep it there though, I wanted to hit 4ghz and I did.

Dec 18, 10 at 10:37am
hiigaran

i love the colour scheme you have as well...pink

- its unusual...thats why i find it interesting.

anyway, keep cranking up that speed!

Dec 18, 10 at 7:08am
Chad

Sweet pics. Fits in there pretty snuggly from what I can see. Also loving the new case. ^____^

Dec 18, 10 at 6:59am
The Slayer

I finally got my new case and an actual heatsink! I'm running the Antec DF-85 and Corsair H70.

Loving the case. Stock fans are pretty quiet and combined move a lot of air.

The H70 is pretty sweet. I have yet to see my CPU go over 32c. I'm running at 4018mhz right now and its at only 28c. I havent tested full load yet though.

I took a few pictures earlier but only 2 came out decent.

Spoiler: big pics

Highlight this box with your cursor to read the spoiler text.

H70 in action. Its much bigger than I thought and it just fits in there. It covers up part of the 120mm fan. Luckily I have two there. You can see my temperature read out near the bottom of the picture on the motherboard reading 29c. Forgot what speed I was running when I took that though.

Very tight fit in here. I can not use that PCIe x1 slot because the radiator is too big.

I'm about to do a stress test to see how well this overclock handles and how hot it gets. Hopefully it works.

Aug 30, 10 at 5:00am
10jdrole

Yeah, I heard that Halo 2 pc wasn't supported by anything but vista at the time. And yeah, I think we're pretty much off topic now

Aug 30, 10 at 4:48am
hiigaran

i dont know about halo 2, but there is still a good amount that plays CE. unfortunately, its the same people over and over, and to this day, i have yet to understand why there are so many spanish people. why them in particular?

...arent we getting off topic now?

Aug 29, 10 at 11:48pm
10jdrole

People still play halo 2 on the PC? Or is it halo ce?

Aug 29, 10 at 9:01pm
hiigaran

well thats why i boot rocket whores on sight, and always have 50% health. most glitches are eliminated that way as explosive are usually involved in glitching.

hah, i just came from two slayer games. those guys suck balls - half of my score came from pistol whipping.

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