I feel so dirty

[Marvt74]

For some nice benching tomorrow i decided to strip the prommie off my main rig,

After much effort i decided i couldn't get the heater back plate off the motherboard since the hole in my case is for my old motherboard and the DFI NF4 boards have it lower down.

So since i couldnt be bothered taking it out of the case i bodged a way to attach an unused heatsink onto the prommie backplate using some old bolts from an old maze 4 waterblock

Looked at the temps and they 32C at idle and its no nice and quiet i'm half thinking of keeping it like this and just using my mach 2 for benching

Granted i lose about 1200mhz of an overclock and i'm sure that'll presuade me back

 

[fatty]

:O Go back Go back you know you need yer prom

 

[Mindless-Moron]

go go go back

i felt dirty when i chatted upa barmaid for free drinks.

 

[Rockindaveuk]

d00d...not using that prommi is actually a crime in this country!!

 

[Master_G]

*slap* Snap out of it, get that Prommy back on there

G

 

[GoLLuM4444]

*slap* Snap out of it, get that Prommy back on there

G

I second that!

 

[scorchio]

No you can't be serious,hopefully this is just a moment of madness :O

 

[maverik-sg1]

How can you even consider that losing 1.2Ghz of overclock is worth it?? Wake up and smell the Java my friend, you are delerious, maybe a bit under the weather

Seriously mate - it's all about what is important to you, if you need ultra quiet then thats good - then if you want ultra performance then it's mach time - the happy medium is of course - water cooling.

But is there a way where you can get the right balance between overclock and fan speeds on the mach unit to give you a better balance - maybe you could be happy with a slower MACH fans and just a regular 0.8-1Ghz overclock You can always whack it all on turbo when u wanna bench.

Mav

 

[Thickbrit]

Sacrelige,are you hung over ?

 

[Gray Mole]

I've come to the conclusion that Mach2's are benching mahines. Losing the speed is kind of a pain on your 24/7 rig, but there's nothing like the feeling of pushing a kit to it's limit and well beyond.

Most of the time that involves breaking your hardware 8) and you don't want to do that to your 24/7 rig, but personally I think it's worth the cost as long as you still have at least one rig working

Benching is a sport like anything else, and having tools like a mach2 at your disposal just makes it that much more exciting. Running a mach2 on a 24/7 rig is kind of cool, but having it there for your benching just seems like so much more fun.

Makes me itch like crazy to get some kit together to try out the cascade, but it seems like every time I get close, there's something else that breaks, or something else to spend the cash on but one day soon I hope.

Hope the benching is going well mate

Gray

 

[Marvt74]

Heh dont worry guys i'm sure i'll snap out of it soon.

So far i'm getting confused about connecting the mach for a pentium M setup that doesnt involve removing caps and resoldering them elsewhere but it may not be possible.

On the down side my benching HD seems to be toast, either that or the HD controller on the mobo is broke since it detects the drive in the bios perfectly but coming out of the bios it can't detect it

And none of the local pc shops are open for me to try and aquire a cheap 10gb drive or so which sucks.

 

[fatty]

hmmm seems you need a chilly1 head on yer unit easier to mount etc

 

[Marvt74]

Yeah, i have spoken to Gray about it but think its going to prove a bit too expensive for me, especially at the moment