!TIMMY!'s "new" Rig :D

[!TIMMY!]

Spec:

Mobo: DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI-DR | Evercool Twink Cooler

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3700 @ 2.805GHz 255 fsb

CPU Cooler: Arctic Cooling Arctic Freezer Pro 64 With Arctic Silver 5

RAM: 2 x 1024 Corsair Value @ DDR510 3-4-4-7 1T Dual Channel

Ram Cooler: OCZ XTC Memory Cooler

Graphics Card: Sapphire Radeon X1900XT 256mb @ 688/1584

Graphics Card Cooler: Arctic Cooler Accelero X2 with Arctic Cooling MX-1

Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Xtreme Gamer

Harddrives: 2 x Western Digital Caviar SE16 250gb with 16mb Cache Sata II In RAID 0

1 x Maxtor Diamond 10 with 16mb Cache 250gb IDE

Optical Drives: NEC 18x DVD writer Sata

LG 16x DVD-Rom IDE

PSU: SilverPower 600W

Monitors: LG Flatron L1720B 17" TFT, Hansol 500F 15" TFT

Mouse: Logitech MX518

Mouse Mat: Everglide Titan Monster Mat

Keyboard: Logitech G15

Heatset: Speedlink Medusa 5.1 8790, Microsoft SideWinder Game Voice

Speakers: Kenwood Hi-Fi + Tsunami 5.1

Case: Coolermaster Centurion 530 with 3 x 120mm Thermaltake Smart fans

Other: Akasa AK-FC-03 Fan Speed Controller, Coolermaster Musketeer, M-Play Mini

OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 | Streamlined

Pics:

My old system:

The New Parts:

X-Fi Xtreme Gamer:

RAM:

AMD Opty 146 (Now changed to a Athlon 64 3700) - Nice and clean:

Graphics Card with new fan installed:

New Chipset Fan:

My Friend Arctic Silver 5:

Arctic Freezer Pro 64 Installed:

Motherboard Installed:

Another shot:

Cables Hooked Up:

PC On - Inside:

PC On - Outside:

Monitor, Mouse and Keyboard:

Temps and Voltages:

CPU @ 1.475v:

Idle - 39C

Load - 49C

Chipset @ 1.6v:

Idle - 40C

Load - 46C

Ram @ 2.7v

GPU @ default v:

Idle - 43C

Load - 75C

LTD @ 1.6v

Motherboard:

Idle - 44C

Load - 46C

Benchmarks:

3DMARK05 - 11932

3DMARK06 - 5037

AquaMark3 - 75,005

Counter-Strike Source Stress Test (Highest Settings, 6 x AA, 16 x AF, 1280x1024) - 161.57ps

Feel free to comment

 

[macgamesrule]

your cabling looks about like mine

 

[!TIMMY!]

ye too many cables to keep tidy.

 

[Ham]

Nice job timmy, just hope CS dosn't take two years too update!

 

[Doddsy]

I thought I recognised that case, coolermaster centurion! I have one of them for my server, I lost the drive rails though. Pretty annoying!

Looks nice though, the chipset fan has got to be the most important upgrade. The stock Dfi one is just annoying!

 

[!TIMMY!]

Nice job timmy, just hope CS dosn't take two years too update!

Haha im back on css now, although ocing the graphics card seemed to reboot my pc in css, but not in 3DMARK or Aquamark. Maybe the temps were getting to high.

 

[Lord Ward]

!TIMMY! wishes his rig was as good as the Lord's!

hehe alright hehe giggity giggity

LW

 

[jiffz]

Sweet new stuff there Tim! Hopefully you will pwn even harder on CSS now

Deffo get some cable tidying on the go, you'll be thankful when it's done + better airflow may help your gfx card!

 

[!TIMMY!]

Deffo get some cable tidying on the go, you'll be thankful when it's done + better airflow may help your gfx card!

Yeah ive sorted most of it now.

Ive also stopped ocing the graphics card to see weather i was pushing it too far.

Ive also gone to 3-4-4-8 2T timmings just incase, as 250fsb on value ram is a lot at 3-4-4-7 2T.

Fingers crossed its stable...

Edit: It just rebooted on me, so i thought maybe its not a hardware issue, looked in my error log and the error was a DCOM error. Ive disabled it and just about to reboot now.

Right rebooted, lets see if it's stable...

It wasnt, right enabled DCOM again, the service that was conflicting was windows live messenger, so tbh its been uninstalled, so hopefully no more reboots...

 

[Hyper]

Nice one Timmy, glad to see you got all my parts working

Still no sign of mine

 

[!TIMMY!]

Ok had to reinstall the ATI drivers now lets hope everything is fine and dandy.

Its Bank Hol Hyper u wont get ur stuff 2day fingers crossed for tomorrow.

oo and im back at 3-4-4-7 2T it seams more stable (i dont know why).

OOOOOO GOD I HATE PC's! *sigh* Keeps rebooting on me while in css. i can feel a format comming...

Edit: I think ive sorted it, im at 3-4-4-8 2T with the lastest BIOS now, and sorted the vcore out and im yet to have any probs lets hope it stays that way!

W00t a day stable yey for me

 

[!TIMMY!]

Silly TIMMY forgot to connect the 5v/12v power to give extra juice to the PCI-E slots, and now it seems my radeon likes the oc, getting up to a 682 core and 1566 memory

Upped the cpu and ram slightly too

 

[!TIMMY!]

Ok, I was bored this morning, and decided to dive into the BIOS again. I set most of the ram timings to 'Auto' and the DRAM Speed to 'Slow', and bam.... my opty is at 2.80GHz and ram at 254FSB @ 3-4-4-7 but still at 2T and Single Channel.

I still can not get dual channel to post or 1T to post in single channel. Does anyone know which ram timings apply to these to I can have more of a fiddle.

 

[Hyper]

I knew that Opty could run at 2.8ghz

 

[!TIMMY!]

Hyper did you ever try and go higher? im temped by the 5:6 divider so i can hit the 300FSB mark = 3.0GHz

 

[darkorb]

u will need to bust out the VOLTS to get her to 3ghz

my X2 can hit 2.6-2.8 with 1.45 but i can't hit 3ghz even with 1.5volts and ram well below stock

 

[!TIMMY!]

well we will soon see

Edit: Ok 3Ghz was a no go, didnt want to put more than 1.45v through it tbh. Well a 2.8GHz on stock v isnt bad

had to drop the ram to 3-4-4-8 as well.

 

[!TIMMY!]

ok timmy has bought the best stepping 3700 off ebay, so lets hope that i get it and it sorts my prob out and it will oc to a 2.8.

 

[Ham]

*sigh*

Gl lol

 

[!TIMMY!]

Ive got 1T and Dual Channel with the Athlon 64 3700 yey, currently Priming @ the settings that ive changed to (CPU 2.8GHz 255FSB, Ram 3-4-4-8 1T Dual Channel 255FSB).