Thanks DJ!

I got the hardware all running well. Now the software nightmare. Finding XP 64 bit drivers etc. Also I had to install twice. The first time I ended up with XP on I:\ rather than C:\. I heard this was a dilemma when installing with a card reader drive installed and that was the issue.

Tomorrow I will try to go online with it as the drivers all need to be downloaded as the shipped CD's are all for XP 32bit.

Anyway it is exciting and a few more baby pictures to bore you with:

The blue vertical lines towards the rear are the liquid cooling reserator:



Close-up of the CPU water-block:



The two 8800 SLi's bridged:



More to come. Can't wait to get some software on it. As is the Intel Quad Core is running @ 34C idle which I think is pretty good. And this fan-less Reserator is totally silent. The only time you hear anything is when the hard drive is pushed and the HDD enclosure intake fan kicks in.

LMAO @ the music. That looks awesome.

Thanks Jaynee. That is a piece by Tom Waits. The spirit fits me although I've never been married nor to jail (or is that the same thing?).

We are now reading up on the over-clocking/cooking.
It is a magnificent screen and a fast machine to begin with but it was geared to be over-clocked so that is the next project.

More to follow.

Hi jephree!

Sorry I've been away in the middle of things, I was very taken by some continuing personal happenings.

Your build looks excellent, well done and the vid is awesome!! Thank you for posting it

One thing concerns me- each of your CPU's are running at 1.86Ghz not 2.66GHz as they should be .. ?

I don't know if this is the motherboard or a bad reading, but check this in the BIOS. The multiplier should be x10 not x7.

FSB x Multiplier = Core Frequency

266 x 10 = 2.66GHz per core.

Yours is 266 x 7 = 1.86Ghz per core

Yes, its much faster than that yet believe me. Take some readings in Sandra Lite or check in the BIOS- I'm pretty sure CPU-Z is giving accurate readings though.

Feel free to ask anything you want!

Good to see you back Kazna3!

I just started juggling voltages and speeds today. I upgraded my RAM (already) to SLI ready:

Memory: OCZ 4x 1GB DDR2-900 PC2-7200 Platinum XTC NVIDIA SLI

Here are my latest stable stats from CPU-Z

I had it running idle at X12 3.4Ghz but CPU Burn-in crashed it at that.

I am thinking of putting my cooling tower inside a refrigerator.

I am thinking too much!





I also turned off all the cable lights (silly boy) and it looks much better with just the fan LEDs

Nice.

Bump your voltage upto 1.3V (still way good), FSB to 330MHz and multiplier to x10. See how that goes. It should boot with that multiplier and stay stable.

This is how the 3.8, 4, 4.1, 4.3, 4.4, 4.7, 4.8 and 5GHz OCs were achieved on this CPU and I've done mine to 4.2GHz myself pretty easily. All this is motherboard dependent though, not CPU as the CPU can go to 6GHz that I know of.

Thanks for that and will try when I get a break here.

I am looking at wine refrigerators for my cooling tower.

I need a better cooler I think.

Never satisfied!

Thanks again for all your help.

Never a problem

The CPU temp is OK at 50C under load. Your stock FSB is 266MHz so the easiest option is to either leave it at that and raise the multiplier (big increase requires higher volts) or to raise your FSB incremently and monitor system stability. If at any time it doesn't boot or isn't stable, raise the volts by the smallest amount. You will also have to raise the RAM volts by time too if its working past its spec.

When I said 1.3V, that should still run at decent temps. And its a big jump, so it should definitely make 3.3GHz stable if not upto 3.5GHz (350x10). With my motherboard/BIOS 1.32V will take me to 3.68GHz stable.

What are your temperatures at the current OC anyway? Keep a very good eye on them.

When I tend to OC, I only use 1GB RAM or 2x1GB at max. Later when I find the stability, I add the next ones back in. I also drop the timings to 5-5-5-15 usually and after all is achieved, I start increase them to find the fastest stability.

Still at the last posted CPU-Z it idles @ 51C and CPU-Burn-in (which only pushes it to 30% or so) stabilizes at @ 60C.

At 1.4V and 3.4GHz (X12) earlier the Burn-in took it over 70C when it froze ironically.

Overheating = freezing.

Anyway I think this cooling system is not as good as I hoped. I haven't tried your suggestions yet but I will tomorrow.

Also on my insane track: what do you think about running the cooling tower inside a refrigerated case? The tower is only warm to the touch on the outside. Would this kill the refrigerator or... ???

Any thoughts? I am looking at this: http://www.beveragefactory.com/wine/...HVW18ABS.shtml

Just need to drill two access holes with bushings etc.