I just wanted to show off my system... (bandwidth intensive)

[Louis_Berding2002]

...and since it is OC'ed and WC'ed...I figured to place it here. ;)

It is a modest little system. My dually is still in the making due to a budgetting problem (damn other half doesn't understand it is more important than saving money:mad: )

AMD 1.4 @ 1.657

704 SDRAM

180gig HDD space (over 4 HDD's)

1 CDrom, 1 DVD rom, 1 Asus 54x, 24x, 54x burner

3 power supplies

closed system WC powered by seperate power supply for emergency cooling upon shutdown

seperate power supply on a seperate outlet incase of power failure on WC.

1 IDE RAID controller card

and a partridge in a pair tree.

http://www.louisberding.no-ip.com/DSC00568-2.JPG
http://www.louisberding.no-ip.com/DSC00569-3.JPG
http://www.louisberding.no-ip.com/DSC00570-2.JPG
http://www.louisberding.no-ip.com/DSC00571-2.JPG
http://www.louisberding.no-ip.com/DSC00572-2.JPG
http://www.louisberding.no-ip.com/DSC00576-2.JPG
(http://www.louisberding.no-ip.com)

Here's (http://www.louisberding.no-ip.com) my website where I host all of this crap. There I have pictures of me, my students, and some pictures of Taiwan.


EDIT: The Madden 2003 CD you can see in the picture is of course a legal back up copy I have made of the game. :rolleyes: :p

[X-Calibur]

I'm sure you can squeeze more then 200 Mhz out of this baby... c'mom, up that voltage and crank up that FSB...

Nice rig, quite ghetto, but nice rig still... how's the silence?:D

X'

[Louis_Berding2002]

Silence? You mean like when it blows a circut breaker and shutsdown? Well, the silence is strange because of that carzy ringing sound. ;)

200? I've gotten to actually boot at 1.804, but it gives the great blue screen of death randomly. :(

I also forgot to mention I have the GeForce4 TI4200 with 128 DDR ram

[Louis_Berding2002]

It also doesn't look as nice because I have to keep switching around my HDDs, my RAID controller card sucks...delayed write failures anyone? :mad: ;)

So, until I can buy a higher quality one, I'll keep the case open.

[phil]

Not bad Louis....IIRC, your temps were about 60C so you have a nice temp drop there. Especially considering the actual air temp in Taiwan :eek:. As CPU's get more powerful, I'd expect watercooling to become mainstream....there's only so much you can do with aircooling.

[Louis_Berding2002]

Well, you can see from the picture, my CPU temp @ 100% load is about 45.2 C.

The air temp after it passes through my radiator is about 28.3 C.

The air temp right now is 25.1 C.

The blue temp sensor is between the CPU and the MoBo. The white one has two sensors. One one the LCD part, and a remote sensor which is in my shroud of my radiator. See the picture with my finger pointing to a white wire from the shroud? That's it there.


In the next few weeks, I'll buy another pump (this one sucks), and another rad, probably 11 inch. I'll keep both pumps on still, because I want to run both rads at the same time on the same line, and since the larger rad will have to be on the top of the case, I worry about water pressure.

Anyone ever think about using those water chillers they sell for fish tanks? They sell big ones here at the pet store for about $100 USD. They claim to be able to lower 100 F to 60 F. It just does not come with a pump, so you still need your own pump. I'd probably use a high power fish tank pump, because that chiller will have to be kept on the ground due to sive and weight. The advatage if it works that well (it is designed for 300 gallon fish tanks), then It will be very quiet, and I can use it to cool many systems at once. Anyone ever think about such an option? I looked but did not see anything about it on the OC'ing websites.

[Lazarus]

That looks like a real 'Heath Robinson' setup. :D

Aaaaaaaaarrgh - NO!!! MY EYES!!!! I did it - I knew I shouldn't have, but I did it anyway - I looked at his piccies. :( ;)

[Louis_Berding2002]

Huh? What are you talking about? Fill in the young ones/ignorant Americans on this board...who is Heath Robinson?

[Lazarus]

Think of Tom Swift on acid & steroids. ;) :D

[Louis_Berding2002]

Who in the Hell is Tom Swift?

[Lazarus]

Oh My Gawd - he was an American Icon & you don't know him? For shame Louis. :mad: ;)

Look him up on the web & as punishment for your lack of knowledge, look up Heath Robinson too. :D

[Louis_Berding2002]

Okay...so he's a writer?

Heath Robinson

1872-1944
"I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad."

is that him?

[Lazarus]

Oops - I'd better get the conical hat & stand in the corner - I got the Tom Swift one wrong, but the Heath Robinson chappie used to put together these wierd looking contraptions - they did things, not always useful things, but they did them anyway. I'll check my sources for the American chappie. :banghead:

[phil]

LOL....Heath Robinson rocks, but only if you're a Brit apparently :)

[Billy_Bat]

I grew up with Tom Swift, but I only heard of Heath Robinson, never read anything. There was Tom Swift Jr., but it wasn't quite the same... Maybe Louis isn't old enough...






(or mature:D )

[Lazarus]

Originally posted by Billy_Bat
.....Maybe Louis isn't old enough...






(or mature:D )

Good point Billy. :D ;)

[Louis_Berding2002]

Old enough....I feel old enough. ;)


Mature enough....HELL NO!!!!! And, damned proud of it. ;)