Hardware pr0n...w00t!

[Snee]

Well, it looks very, very nice. Like I said, the plugs remind me of Orac3, which is only positive in my book. I wish I had wiring like that in my box.

Can you loosen any cables you don't need on that? It looks like it.

Btw- The old Hipers had problems with the cabling, according to a review I read when I was looking for a psu for my brother, apparently it'd get hot when you put strain on the psu. (one such review)

That was their first range an earlier range of psus though, and apart from that they were very good performers from what I've heard, and they have to have sorted out any child diseases by now

It looks like the cables are connected differently on this one, at least on the outside, if I remember the pics of the old ones correctly.

[lynx]

I was very tempted to get the Hiper myself, but finally decided on the Akasa PaxPower Ultra Quiet, which I believe is a rebadged SeaSonic S12. It really is virtually silent.

Clocker is right however, Hiper do seem to have a good reputation now.

[clocker]

Finally got Windows installed (my hardware has changed so drastically that I've had to activate over the phone lately...imagine that ) and got the chance to tweak my settings some.
Flashed to a newer BIOS ( they seem to come out almost weekly) and used settings from a thread at OCForums (which was quite helpful as I haven't a clue what half these options are).

Holy crap!
This board is a monster.

Within 30 minutes I had reached my previous best numbers from the Gigabyte board and I'm still running the RAM 1:1 (PC 3700 so far, @2.5,3.3.10) and 1T.

Was able to break the 32 sec. barrier in SuperPi...


Now for 2.7GHz...

[clocker]

Oh, it's almost too easy...






Hmmm, how about WinRAR?

[Snee]

I like your cpu temp.

That baby is going to last forever.

[clocker]

I like your cpu temp.

So do I.
Oh yes, very much.
Sprocket will be Priming all day as I work to support her.
Temps had skyrocketed all the way up to 28C after about 1/2 hour (BTW, all temps seen are with the PC buttoned up, I'm prolly going to remove the Silverstone mesh in the front bezel to improve airflow).

I'm pretty sure that the new radiator is more than capable of handling anything I can throw at it, so now I'm thinking of rerouting the loop a bit.
The vid card is still nearly as hot as it was before (with the BIX), so maybe if I run the output from the rad to the GPU first I can drop a few more degrees.
CPU temp should rise by a bit, but I feel I can afford it, especially as my next step is to begin ratcheting down the CPU vCore.

I did try to break 2.8GHz already, but my RAM settings are going to need relaxing to make it.
I can POST just fine, but Windows loses the "ntoskrnl.dll" and won't play nice.
So far, this has been my first/only blue screen.

This board seems like it will live up to it's reputation if my beginning results are any indication.
It's also worth remembering that I am running a Winchester and thus, do not benefit from the new, improved memory controllers found in the Venice/San Diego/Toledo chips.
The Winnie is proving quite competitive against the Venice/San Diegos- I certainly see no reason to upgrade to either of them...we'll see what the x2's can bring to the table.

[Snee]

28 degrees

What kind of ambient are we talking about here, btw?


Seeing as it's summer the surrounding temps can't be much lower, can they?



That water-cooling thing is brilliant htheenvy:

Do you reckon it'd be possible to add some low-powered (and thus not too noisy) refrigeration to the loop as well? just hypothetically, like, 'cos you certainly don't seem to need it.

[clocker]

Room ambient (measured with a somewhat suspect thermometer) is @ 24-25C.
This makes my motherboard sensors also suspect, too.
It's hard to do any comparisons with my old setup due to the number of changes I've made, but the new database is starting.

Low-powered refridgeration (such as watercooler chillers) are really not capable of doing much for a waterloop.
Maybe a degree or two at most.
Basically, not worth the added complexity/cost.

[Snee]

Thanks for answering that, I've been wondering why no one added refrigeration to the loops I've seen, but if it doesn't work better than that, that explains it.

Maybe the mobo sensors and the thermometer are good, which would make the heat transferring capabilities of your loop brilliant (and maybe it isn't too incredible a difference in temps anyway I dunno'), btw Be positive

[clocker]

Maybe the mobo sensors and the thermometer are good, which would make the heat transferring capabilities of your loop brilliant (and maybe it isn't too incredible a difference in temps anyway I dunno'), btw Be positive

That would make my loop more than brilliant, it would be miraculous.
The absolute best a waterloop can ever be would be room ambient and that assumes 100% transfer between the CPU and the block, the block and the water, then the water and the radiator.
Obviously, this cannot happen.

It's moot however.
Whatever the temp really is, it's pretty bloody low.