WOW! OPTERON @ 3.17ghz and still going!

[williamc303]

Look at what my naked 146 opteron is giving me on water. OCCT stable at 3.17ghz and still testing.

Who needs a prommie...

 

[mightynimrod]

Good to see the A8N32 board are performing.

Wonder how Mavs doing on the Expert DFI board?

 

[maverik-sg1]

Well - it took me an hour and half to get the seal string off the old DFI - then I lost the screws off the CPU kit that hold back and front plates.

Then I found that I needed to dremmel some grooves in the cpu kit to miss some of the surface mounted stuff and an extra groove to allow CPU removal without remiving CPU kit.

Finally I got it in the case and realised I have to re-pipe the watercooling due to the new arrangement of the graphics cards PCI-E slots (extra spacing which I don't need lol).

The good news is I tested it and no hissing

I go and visit my lad today so probs be tonight when it's finally up and running.

Mav

 

[stocky]

Nice, add a peltier

What was the max temp your water got to?

A little OT but, does anyone else experience the water getting very hot with peltiers?

 

[justin]

yeh, maybe add another rad? Good clocks, i got an extra 200mhz out of a prommy, but ill see what happens next time...

 

[Psykotik]

Got my Opty about 5 mins ago, CABNE, hopefully it will be going to at least 2.8 Ghz. Only got the Akasa Evo tho

 

[williamc303]

hey guys pumped up the volt, now 3.2ghz stable occt. am still awaiting my ballistix 2gb, at mo only using 512mb g skill, with 166 divider. ram at 266mhz

temps are ok, am using a pa120.3 already with 3 silenx fans running half speed!

 

[williamc303]

removing ihs has so far given me extra 200mhz

 

[nick25]

Wow! very nice. Look forward to how you get on when you get your ballistix. Top stuff.

 

[maverik-sg1]

It seems other cores will benefit the same by removing the IHS.

 

[justin]

im just nervous about crushing the poor thing...

 

[Monge]

williamc303 : Wow, which stepping is your opty?

 

[williamc303]

same as ur matie

 

[Monge]

Thx, that's one of the best Cabye 0540 FPxW steppings, if not the best

Did you try it on prommie/Mach?

 

[Marvt74]

Thats a great effort there, not seen many this quick yet, especially on water

 

[scorchio]

Them are some great scores mate looking forward ro seeing what she will do with the Ballistix in

 

[Kamz]

gratz on results man, i got a cabye 540 fpmw thats rune 3.ghz on air, i had a lovely pair of balistixs thats ran 300 fsb 3,3,3, 10 at 2.8v memtest stable for 24 hours, then under a week one stick started to error ><.

Got new sticks after a bloody month from a competitor and they took teh biscuit seriosuly, but the new sticks wont run 300 even at 2.9v with active cooling.

Hoping to get my watercooling up soon, thank god i bought my storm block

Kamz

 

[Matt_Hirst]

Congrats on the results so far.

regards,

Matt

 

[Bradmax57]

removing ihs has so far given me extra 200mhz

I took mine off and didnt seem to make much of a difference, i did have a problem mounting it using my thermaltake big typhoon tho temps went through the roof so i stuck the ihs back on with a bit of as5

 

[Gaffney982]

I've got 2x1gb of the Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC4000 and it REFUSES to run nice with my DFI NF4 SLI-DR. It can't even overclock near as well as my 2x512mb of Geil Golden Dragon PC3500. I can't figure it out.