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| System Name | Sony Vaio - VGNFW390-CTO |
|---|---|
| Processor | Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T9550 (2.66GHz) |
| Cooling | Stock |
| Memory | 4GB DDR2-SDRAM (DDR2-800, 2GBx2) |
| Video Card(s) | ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3650 with 512MB vRAM (pitiful card) |
| Storage | 320GB SATA Hard Disk Drive [7200 rpm] |
| Display(s) | LCD 16.4" (XBRITE-FullHD™) |
| Audio Device(s) | SupremeFX |
| Software | Windows 7 |
To view this case mod, go here.
Specs:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800; mobo: ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe; CPU, chipset, GPU cooling: All custom water cooling blocks plus 2 x 120mm radiator, resorvoir, and 480 l/h pump; Memory: Ramses 2GB (4 X 512MB) PC3200; Video: ATI Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition Master Card crossfired to HIS ATI Radeon X850XT; HDD: 80GB Seagate Barracuda ATA and 320GB Seagate Barracuda SATA II (perpindicular recording); CD/DVD drive: NU combo drive: CD/CD-R/CD-RW/DVD/DVD-R (52X24X52X16X); Monitor: Hyundai N91S 19" LCD flatpanel w/8ms response time; Case: KINGWIN SK-523BKW-BC; PSU: 600W; Speakers: 2.1 Dell surround speakers (nice!); Wireless keyboard and wireless optical mouse.
Mods:
Put in this nice watercooling system. I thought long and hard about it, and I decided to go with a liquid water replacement called Fluid XP+ High Performance. It is a non-conductive solution to a water-based cooling system which is awesome because if it were to leak, no frying parts!It was $20 for the bottle, but it's well worth the investment because I can rest easy at night when I leave it on knowing that leak is no problem. Also, I added some LED lights to the CPU waterblock just to spice it up a little and a couple blue cold cathode tubes. The other mod is the CrossFire. I can't wait until I have enough money to buy the crossfire cards that will end up using an internal bridging method instead of the external cord.
Also, see the gallery "So close to finished" To see what it looked like before my finished gallery here.
Specs:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800; mobo: ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe; CPU, chipset, GPU cooling: All custom water cooling blocks plus 2 x 120mm radiator, resorvoir, and 480 l/h pump; Memory: Ramses 2GB (4 X 512MB) PC3200; Video: ATI Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition Master Card crossfired to HIS ATI Radeon X850XT; HDD: 80GB Seagate Barracuda ATA and 320GB Seagate Barracuda SATA II (perpindicular recording); CD/DVD drive: NU combo drive: CD/CD-R/CD-RW/DVD/DVD-R (52X24X52X16X); Monitor: Hyundai N91S 19" LCD flatpanel w/8ms response time; Case: KINGWIN SK-523BKW-BC; PSU: 600W; Speakers: 2.1 Dell surround speakers (nice!); Wireless keyboard and wireless optical mouse.
Mods:
Put in this nice watercooling system. I thought long and hard about it, and I decided to go with a liquid water replacement called Fluid XP+ High Performance. It is a non-conductive solution to a water-based cooling system which is awesome because if it were to leak, no frying parts!It was $20 for the bottle, but it's well worth the investment because I can rest easy at night when I leave it on knowing that leak is no problem. Also, I added some LED lights to the CPU waterblock just to spice it up a little and a couple blue cold cathode tubes. The other mod is the CrossFire. I can't wait until I have enough money to buy the crossfire cards that will end up using an internal bridging method instead of the external cord.
Also, see the gallery "So close to finished" To see what it looked like before my finished gallery here.
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how far do those cards clock and what 3dmark scores are ya gettin? My prob is my single core P4. I've gotta clock it pretty high (4.8-4.9ghz) otherwise it's a serious bottleneck. The catalyst drivers use a lot of processing power while running crossfire. Saying that, i find openGL games don't use as much cpu... did you find that? Doom3 runs very very smoothly.