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Old 09-March-05, 11:34 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Lightbulb Need help with watercooling and overclocking

Hey guys I want some help on picking the best components for water cooling my computer cost is not a problem. The setup I have right now is an:

Athlon 64 3200 running at 2.0 GHZ is socket 754
ASUS K8V SE Deluxe with the via k8t 800 chipset
two optical drives a NEC CD burner 52x32x52
an LG DVD ROM CD Burner Drive 52x32x52 for burning and 16x for reading DVDS
I have a 250GB SATA HDD
a Radeon 9800XT 256MB running stock
and an Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS

The system is running fine but the fans are so damn load and I'm sick of the noise.
my cpu fan alone produces 48db and I also have a vantec spectrom in there.
Not to mention to 80mm fans one exahaust and one intake. Also a 120mm exahaust fan in the back and an 80mm intake fan in my side panel window. I built the computer my self and I have the machine running really cool but like I said it is real loud.

The reason I have so many fans is because I wanted to overclock the machine. That didn't work out so well because I'm a noob when it comes to overclocking and when I first built the computer I managed to overclock it and it ran at 2.4GHZ , but I did it through the FSB so naturallly everything else sped up as well seeing as how the k8t 800 chipset doesn't have any feature to lock the AGP and PCI multipliers. So after the computer booted fine at 2.4 GHZ I rebooted went into the bios and did something really stupid I incremented the speed up again this time by five. Thank god I didn't kill the CPU but when it tryed to load the OS it crashed and messed up the boot config file so I had to reinstall windows and everything else so I decided to leave it alone until I gained more knowledge on overclocking.

So now I have the time and money to start messing around with my rig. It would be great if you guys could give me some links on some good how to documents for overclocking and water cooling. I also wanted to know which waterblock from dangerden is better the TDX or RBX.

Thanks guys please respond asap.

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Old 09-March-05, 11:41 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I say you upgrade the board before you go water cooling. You can find the DFI Lanparty NF3 boards pretty cheap now around 90 bucks. I say you get that board and a zalman heatsink. The zalman works great and is pretty silent. I just bought one for my noisy Athlon XP 3000 machine.
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Old 10-March-05, 12:04 AM   #3 (permalink)
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There is a cost with all things, and I don't just mean a money cost.

You can OC reasonably high and have a reasonably quiet system.
You can OC moderately and have a pretty quiet rig, surprisingly actually.
And you can OC at the upper limits of the tech, but quiet gets real difficult to do without some serious effort.

The middle road is a great place for most peeps, and DangerDen gear is usually the best guys to help with that.

The low OC, but real quiet road has some options, DD will still work just fine, other's offer things like passive radiators and such and you can have a very quiet rig. This route can still be pretty expensive, but it has it's pluses.

The other way, the top OC route, well, that is just a whole different world. It's a place where you build your comp to do two things, OC for the specs, and OC for the benchmarks, even if it isn't built for real use. These are the top-fuel dragsters of the computer world. Can't drive them down main, but damn they go fast.
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Go with TDX over the RBX. Same performance with one less barb to hassle with. Also if money isn't a problem you might want to go with two DDC pumps from dangerden, two of them in parallel will outperform one D4 pump and they are quiter then the already quite D4 pump.
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