Maximus Nebuchadnezzar

QUOTE (Kwikky @ February 18, 2008 02:30 pm)

Ummm,

You have more water hoses than both of the vehicles in my driveway

3DM05: 30147

3870 X2 Overclocked @ 900/1100. 4.650GHz. 465MHz FSB. 10x. 1.69 vcore (1.725 BIOS). 1.74 PLL, 1.74 NB, 1.22 SB, 1.62 Term.

Nice! Post those babies in the bot threads, if you would sir. The '05 is worth 25 pts, the '03 about 30 pts! Both excellent scores, especially at that cpu clock.

I will, my friend -- just completing a few more benches then will post in HWbot section.

I put Marion in touch with a Colder engineer, so should have more specifics this week on that front too. He's preparing an email response. He was interested in this unique application of the product. He opined that the NSH couplers might be better suited, as they have less PSI drop; however, at 6.5", they are simply too large for a 24"x22" ATX case. I ordered both the NSH and NS6 couplers initially and sent the NSH set back for that reason (I didn't realize they were that large when I placed the order). Also, the NS6 have a greater heat tolerance than do the NSH (NS6's are 4" in length).

3870 X2 Overclocked @ 900/1100. 4.650GHz. 465MHz FSB. 10x. 1.69 vcore (1.725 BIOS). 1.74 PLL, 1.74 NB, 1.22 SB, 1.62 Term.

3DM01: 81514

QUOTE (paulzig @ February 18, 2008 09:26 am)

You guys are gonna make me want to get one of these..

Ah, Paul, Jason and the boys have you wanting to drink the purple-hazed Kool-Aid of these chips and water cooling. It does NOT stop at the fluid, for with te fluid comes a myriad of other accoutrements, gizmos, and disasters.

It is an interesting (OK, fascinating, in a strange way) hobby, HOWEVER, I would like to be able to use the dining room table on occasion for more than collaborative computer instrumentation efforts, if you catch my drift.

Ok, OK already: Jason, I am very, very proud of your sticking-to-it-ness of your efforts. The computer really screams along, completely of your handiwork. Folks, the benchmark scores are very, very real. There will be more tweaking, so stay tuned!

Jason's proud nerdette SO,
Marion

Marion, Paul was one of those here that taught me how to overclock, so . . . he knows all this first hand.

3870 X2 Overclocked @ 900/1100. 4.650GHz. 465MHz FSB. 10x. 1.69 vcore (1.725 BIOS). 1.74 PLL, 1.74 NB, 1.22 SB, 1.62 Term.

PCMark05: 11178

You may be interested in knowing that the top hw_bot PCM05 scores are by benchers who have purchased two or three I-RAM harddrives, combined in RAID, on which they've installed the OS. Screemin' fast, but we're talking an extra $1200 or so in cash for these drives.

QUOTE (jmkays @ February 18, 2008 05:41 pm)

I will, my friend -- just completing a few more benches then will post in HWbot section.

I put Marion in touch with a Colder engineer, so should have more specifics this week on that front too. He's preparing an email response. He was interested in this unique application of the product. He opined that the NSH couplers might be better suited, as they have less PSI drop; however, at 6.5", they are simply too large for a 24"x22" ATX case. I ordered both the NSH and NS6 couplers initially and sent the NSH set back for that reason (I didn't realize they were that large when I placed the order). Also, the NS6 have a greater heat tolerance than do the NSH (NS6's are 4" in length).

You may have just opened a whole new market for them. The couplers out there suck and enthusiasts are willing to pay big bucks for quality stuff.

I think so. I told the sales rep (and engineer) that the community would be skeptical initially, but that once they saw them in action there would be a positive response. I'll send him a link to this blog tomorrow.

QUOTE (cool_case @ February 19, 2008 02:00 am)

You may be interested in knowing that the top hw_bot PCM05 scores are by bencher who have purchased two or three I-RAM harddrives, combined in RAID, on which they've installed the OS. Screemin' fast, but we're talking an extra $1200 or so in cash for these drives.

Those Gigabyte i-RAM RAMdisks have been around for ages..I think from memory they cost about $150 each, and they take 4 sticks of DDR...

This is the new Gigabyte I-RAM box: Doesnt plug into a PCI slot, just slots into an empty 5.25" bay and is just like a SATA drive

http://www.giga-byte.com/Products/Storage/...ame=i-RAM%20BOX

Instead of RAMdisks tho, has anyone considered SSD (Solid State Drives)? They are going to be the next best thing, but VERY expensive at the moment..

Reviews here:

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2982&p=1

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2212

Prices:

http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.as...ory=636&Tpk=ssd

Asus Independent is now on 665pts at HWBOT and we are now ranked the no 49th team in the world, Thanks to Jason

QUOTE (paulzig @ February 19, 2008 12:38 am)

Instead of RAMdisks tho, has anyone considered SSD (Solid State Drives)? They are going to be the next best thing, but VERY expensive at the moment..

When David mentioned I-RAM disks, I thought maybe that was another name for SSD's -- I have read about the latter and they are very exciting. At $4,000 for a 128GB drive, it's out of my price range, but something to keep in mind for the future.

QUOTE (marionr1980 @ February 19, 2008 12:41 am)

QUOTE (paulzig @ February 18, 2008 09:26 am)

You guys are gonna make me want to get one of these..

Ah, Paul, Jason and the boys have you wanting to drink the purple-hazed Kool-Aid of these chips and water cooling. It does NOT stop at the fluid, for with te fluid comes a myriad of other accoutrements, gizmos, and disasters.

It is an interesting (OK, fascinating, in a strange way) hobby, HOWEVER, I would like to be able to use the dining room table on occasion for more than collaborative computer instrumentation efforts, if you catch my drift.

Ok, OK already: Jason, I am very, very proud of your sticking-to-it-ness of your efforts. The computer really screams along, completely of your handiwork. Folks, the benchmark scores are very, very real. There will be more tweaking, so stay tuned!

Jason's proud nerdette SO,
Marion

I'm actually scared of water cooling, LOL... Even though I have a little external setup here that I have yet to install, seeing this has given me some inspiration though..
They are very nice benchmark scores indeed, and I'm going to have to pull something very special out of my proverbial to come close to them.

The less said about the 'other' uses for dining room tables the better

Jason... You need to run Aquamark by the way, its about the only benchmark missing out of your set...