Hmm, honestly, I sold my last water-cooling setup a year ago, it was a Coolermaster Aquagate, and the pipe that leads to the processor leaked, and the droplets of water killed a 13k video card, I was lucky that I got it RMAed. So now, I'm into more efficient air cooling, often utilizing heatpipe technology. I just use an Arctic Cooling Freezer64 which fan speed is set to full, it keeps an Athlon64 3500+ 2.2Ghz overclocked to 2.86Ghz at below 50 degrees at full load, and in order to cool two overclocked video card in SLI mode running from default clocks of 500/1000 to 550/1650, the side of my current case has two 80mm fans which uses a controller to also keep noises down, it helps keeps the two GPUs under 60 degrees at full load, my old DDR-400 2.5-4-4-8 ram, is also overclocked, now running at DDR-520 2-3-3-8, The fan at the back of the case is enough to suck hot air from the memory modules, keeping it stable.
I previously planned to mod a Lian-Li aluminum case but I did not go through with it, since my current case is cooler than I had thought, the acrylic top and side panel of my case is cool to the touch even after long-term use, and by that I mean about 4 days of non-stop usage from video conversion, gaming, and dvd ripping. Recommended Setup? Hmmm, even my current rig is outdated, but that's about to change two months from now. If you're looking for dual core systems, The cheaper way would be the X2 AM2 while the faster and more expensive option would be the Core 2 Duo, My single core still handles any game available flawlessly, but I've already decided to switch to a Core 2 Duo in preparation for DX10 game titles, currently, only less than 10 games are able to utilize Dual Cores, so most games running on dual core systems would just be using excess power and giving higher electricity bills, for no performance gain whatsoever. All I can say is, unless you're into video editing, heavy multitasking (running games while converting video or burning a disc), or 3d rendering, a Dual Core system would be unnecessary. 1GB of ram is minimum nowadays, I wouldn't recommend anthing less to fellow gamers, a SATA HD with 160GB or more storage should be fine for most users, for a video card, I suggest holding out for about a month or more to take advantage of the coming DX10 variants, which also utilizes smaller core thereby consuming less power. Also a non-generic PSU is a must, why sacrifice all those expensive hardware and let it run on cheap PSU that takes a bunch of other parts with them when they give out. If you mention your budget however, I can give you much more specific hardware specs choices to match that budget, provided that you also mention its intended purpose/usage. As for tools, I curently have these, I ordered them from manila since I couldn't find most of them here in CDO. Moller Brand Rotary Tool Hole Cutter Cutting disc for Rotary Tool Power Drill Rivet Tool On 3/12/07, hard wyrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ei Zhadd, I've been looking at watercooling for quite some time however, with the recent models of CPUs and better CPU cooling assemblies, I do not see the need for it anymore. What's your opinion? Is it still worthwhile? Although I'm working for a local reseller/integrator, I'm not much into gaming rigs. Do you have any recommendations for a "modest" rig? Most of my boxes are still Duron-based :)) I'm also reviewing my existing case mod which was based off of the Mac G5 case. However, I'm rethinking of doing another aluminum case design and fiber front panel and then do automotive gloss or flat finish. I'm not much of a fan for fiberglass clear cases :)). On case modding what materials do you usually use? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Zhadd La Plana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mar 12, 2007 11:25 AM Subject: Re: [klug] Vista activation crack #2 auto-renews the 30 day grace period To: "Kagay-Anon Linux Users' Group (KLUG) Mailing List" <[email protected] > Vista is a resource hog, surprisingly though, it has a faster startup time than my current XP installation. I only use Vista to try out how games perform on it. It was worse on the beta versions, it was really slow, even opening a single program would cause it to crash. The only good thing about this Ultimate Version is that it's free, hehehe, got a free copy by submitting a couple of bugs while Vista was still in its beta stages. Its of no use to me right now, and I removed it cause I can't start XP in safe mode when both are installed on my system. I definitely won't switch to Vista unless its really necessary, I still have more fun with Ubuntu than with Vista. Zhadd La Plana Club SLI No.: SLI-14203 zhadlp PC Overclocking Guru / PC Hardware Seller / PC Case Modder / PC Gamer _________________________________________________ Kagay-Anon Linux Users' Group (KLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (http://cdo.linux.org.ph) Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph -- "A dog that has no bite, barks loudest." Registered Linux User #400165 http://baudizm.blogsome.com http://phossil.ifastnet.com Subscribed to: LARTC, Open-ITLUG, PRUG, KLUG, sybase.public.ase.linux _________________________________________________ Kagay-Anon Linux Users' Group (KLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (http://cdo.linux.org.ph) Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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