Good work fellas. Can't wait to see the outside.
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Good work fellas. Can't wait to see the outside.
good job on finishing guys
u guys did so many things i did at one time or another its pretty creepy actually lol
first is that i think you should get a 3rd or 3rd and 4th drive and do raid 5 or 0+1 raid 0 is very fast but i made the mistake of using it as the boot drive and when a drive fails you are screwed
no recovery methods what so ever.
oh and also dont use the software for your overclock it problably will not read the frequencies and voltages correctly use bios to overclock instead dont be scared worst case scenario is not your computer blows up its your computer doesnt boot and you just do a cmos clear and then it boots
impressive oc by the way +rep ive got an amd athlon 3600x2 brisbane stock speed is 1.8 oc'd to 2.8
Spent last night stress testing....:eek:
First we had to find the proper speed to use as our everyday overclock. After some playing around we arrived at 3201MHz. Why 3201 MHz? Just kind of by accident really. It's reasonably fast and we can achieve it with 1.325 volts Vcore and be stable.
This config was able to run Prime 95 (64-bit) for 8hours 53 minutes with no errors!:banana::banana:
Thats good enough for me.
We will post some screen shoots soon...
Hey guys, just stoppin in to tell you that i cleaned the computer preparatory to moving it upstairs! I'm wagering that Dad won't check this before he sees the surprise i've added to the case. However, in case he does, I cant tell you what it is... so just hold on! 1 more day and i'll be able to tell you... and possibly even show you! :)
You guys rock! WTG and congrats on completion!
Your reservoir looks a little low in the last set of pictures.
Hey guys, just got back from two parties in a row... grueling work mroe then happy fun! :) Anyways, I attempted to surprise dad, but his analytical thought processes (or just his incredible denseness/gullibility) ruined the effect. The surprise was that I had hooked the LightBus into the computers sound loop, and configured the light channels to "dance" to music! :) The effect was quite nice, and it even had some unintentional benefits (such as flashing everytime I fired a round in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.) :P
omg muzzel flash!!! sweet
That is so cool +rep for you guys.
Wow! Great to see TBCS back up and running! Its been ages! At any rate, best not to let Dad know its around again... Just recently, when installing Beowulf, a new 500 Gig harddrive to be a linux server for the household, I made The Mistake. When attempting to worm my way between lines of coolant and the incredibly sharp passive coolers on the various chips on the Video Card, i accidentally knocked a SATA cable loose. It'd have been fine if i'd just slowed down, but in trying to put that one back, i knocked out another... until they had all been removed and I couldn't keep more than 2 of the 5 in at a time... In case none of you have yet noticed, SATA connectors are much looser than the old PATA standard. >.<
At any rate, i gave up and took the computer downstairs, again returning the basement (previously in use for prototyping the product line my start up company will be releasing in a month or two) to a computer modders dream. I had 2 large tables in an L with enough boxes full of goodies to build myself a computer out of resistors and wires situated in front of a decent TV with a nice speaker setup. I decided not to be half assed about it, so I slid out the video card and removed the CPU cooler in order to get the coolant loop out of the way. Big Mistake number 2. In no time I had Beowulf installed next to Irving II, our Windows 2x500GB softRAID 0 array, and had the entire case cleaned and ready. Deciding I really needed to reapply the thermal compound since we OverClock our computer so high, I cleaned it all off. By this point, it was very late on a school night, but I reallllly wanted to get the basic setup for Ubuntu 9.04 out of the way before bed. Big Mistake number 3. While hastily searching for Thermal Compound, I found something labeled "Thermal Aluminum" by the makers of the fancy stuff i remembered us buying. Something struck me as amiss when I realized it was a binary agent, but I dismissed it as being some form of advanced chemistry or other...
...3 Strikes and you're out. The CPU cooler is now epoxied (and incorrectly positioned, at that!) to the CPU and motherboard. The CPU receives no cooling now, not even passive. We've underclocked it to about 1.8GHz (from our stable 3.6GHz) in order to let Mom continue using it as an email machine until we get time to properly fix it. Unfortunately it seems the damages are coming out of my paycheck. >.< The good news is, my triple acts of complete idiocy coincided with the release of some very nice i7 Chips and MoBos... Upgrade time! New specs are tentative, but it's looking like 12GB of ram, 4.5GHz with 8 logical cores.... W00t. =P Good thing i've been saving up! :banana:
What do you mean "back up and running"? weve always been here