Hmm, never did mod it, though I've lapped the base to mirror finish to further lower my processor temperatures..
Thanks for sharing Zhadd :). Yeah that's what I thought so too eversince I
first saw XPC utilizing heatpipe tech. Have you tried modding your own heatpipe? I think I'll shelve my brass cores for watercooling too :).
Hmm, recent alienware cases rely mostly on water cooling, only the older versions are fan cooled, I have only one fan controller, modded to control the speeds of all the 80mm fan in my case, also a 450w non-generic PSU is already more than enough for today's systems, even with all those fans and bling-blings installed, hehehe... I'm looking at different case designs online that I can learn from that will
provide better heat management and ehat discharge efficiency. I envy those Area-51 cases but I'm not sure how efficient they are since I dont have an actual rig :). Surely having lots of fans will help. But you mentioned also that more fans will require additional controller card plus PSU considerations.
Actually the Opteron is readily available for the desktop, there are aAM2 variants readily available from my manila supplier, but availability of s939 Opterons are now scarce, for both single core and dual core variants, I personally like the Opterons, since they can reach very high overclocks even on stock cooling due to their low temperatures. I was hoping AMD will release the Opteron (or similar spec) for the low-end
desktop. When I first saw Sun Microsystem's Sun Ultra 20, it was a hell of a machine. Ultra quite, very cool. I touched the cooling fan assembly (heat sink and all), and I did not feel any heat at all despite it running for almost 10 hours non-stop
for 30k or less, if its only for the CPU, you could go quite far.. this specs was something I gave to a close friend of mine about a week ago. AMD A64 X2 3600+ AM2 Epox MF4-J Nforce4 1GB Geil DDR2-800 Palit GeForce 7600GS Sonic DDR3 Duke Duo Casing Western Digital SATA2 160Gb Task 450w PSU 28k est. or Cheap SLi AMD Sempron64 2800+ Epox 8NPA-SLI 1GB PQI DDR400 with heatspreader 2x Palit GeForce 7300GT Sonic DDR3 Duke Duo Casing Western Digital SATA2 160Gb Task 450w PSU 27k est. All setup can be OCed to desired "attainable levels" for free...
My budget's pretty modest. ranging from 25K to 30K tops.
hehehe, none in particular.. Any particular paints you use if ever? -- Zhadd La Plana Club SLI No.: SLI-14203 zhadlp PC Overclocking Guru / PC Hardware Seller / PC Case Modder / PC Gamer
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