Hardware pr0n...w00t!

[clocker]

I hate u

As well you should.

My e-dick is swangin low today.

[Spicker]

I hate u

As well you should.

My e-dick is swangin low today.

u mean e-penis
RoFL LM@O!!!!1111eleven n00b!!11111


i dont really hate u, i just envy u

[clocker]

i dont really hate u, i just envy u

Figures.
You don't know me well enough to hate me.

That's what my friends are for.

[clocker]

Okay.
Now we are ready for Stage Two.

Sprocket's clock speed has been ratcheted back from the bleeding edge, down to 2.68GHz.
All of the voltages have also been lowered.

I'm going to try Sen's Burn-in Technique * and see if I can crack the 2.8 (stable) barrier.

Random observations...
-Patriot EP RAM is amazing stuff, it's performance is way better than it's price would suggest.

Note the tight timings it is able to hold at this speed...the RAM is running 1:1 at 1T and 5x in this shot.
I can't claim Prime stability (yet), but I haven't been concerned with that ...so far, I've just been seeing how far I could push things.

-The DFI LanParty series motherboards are the Ferraris of the field.
No other board even approaches the performance/BIOS options that it offers.
Can't speak to it's longevity/stability, but if you want to tweak your setup, this is the board to get.

-Watercooling is a real PITA.
There is the undeniable bling factor, but working in the case becomes difficult and frankly, the performance is not all that much improved over good aircooling. I am especially disappointed in the GPU block.
I don't know if there are better options than the DD NV-68 (one would hope...) but I only dropped about 5c from the aircooled results.
For $125 I expected better.
May start with aircooling in the next case and see what happens.
Whatever happened to that cool Asetek HSF that was supposed to be coming out?
The new Zalman "turbine" HS looks promising also.


*You must ignore his lousy spelling/grammar.
His results have been rather amazing though, so it looks worth a shot to me.

[Snee]

That's cool, would it work on a chip that's been in action for a while do you think?

[clocker]

I don't know.
Can't see that it would hurt to try though.

[Snee]

I might have a try with my brother's machine then

[clocker]

This burn-in is BORING!

I had to drop down to 2.53GHz to achieve Prime stability at the tight memory timings I was running.
So far I've been able to drop the CPU voltage to to 1.375 and pass for 4 hours.
Now trying 1.35v.
RAM voltage is down from 2.9 to 2.7v and next comes 2.6 (just to see...I don't think it'll happen).

The northbridge is being very cranky, lowering it's voltage gives me random screen fades. I suspect that running my RAID and the Plextor and the Seagate is really stressing it. I'm considering rebuilding the RAID array on the SI3114 chip and seeing what effect that has.

Patience is a definite virtue in this pursuit.

[firefox]

Very nice setup, but the wraping on the memory did the picture no justice.

[clocker]

Very nice setup, but the wraping on the memory did the picture no justice.

OK, you lost me.