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P4 630 from 3.0 to 4.0Ghz... ATI X700Pro from 425/430 to 460/510
My very first build, and i am 14! I am very happy with it and there will be more mods coming, Arctic Cooling ATI Sliencer1 Rev2 is no it's way, After that will be a TT cable sleving kit and a total rebuild, going to paint the inside of it a lime green and blue pattern. It does about 5000 3D Marks in 05, dont even wana try 06 lol!!
28 Comments on Kid's First Build
Awsome job on it!
Your using the stock CPU cooler with a 1ghz overclock!?!? i found the stock cooler was crap for overclocking, even with some decent thermal grease. I could get a decent overclock, but was getting up to like 75c to 80c, as prescotts are notorious for running very hot. You need to have that as a priority, get yourself a decent cooler, and don't skimp out on the grease. You wanna get some nice Arctic Silver 5, trust me its worth it! Also, havn't you tried lowering the vcore? I got my 640 idling at 37c @ 4ghz on a 1.3125v vcore, but i run it @ 3.85ghz w/ 1.25v vcore for general use and get 34c idle, and 48c max load.
I like the fan control panel, where'd you get it?
Anyway, have fun with it! =D
wow, 37c idle with stock cooler... that's impressive! What's the vcore at?
i know that most p4's are pretty good with the whole heat problem. but i hardly doubt that you are able to run a 1GHz overclock and still maintain a reasonable heat number. i know that many of the people that run watercooling even run just as warm as a stock heatsink when they overclock. but if you have developed a way to overclock to that extreme and still not fry your pc, then all the power to you.
But, it is possible to keep nice temperatures with an "extreme" overclock. To be honest, i don't think 1.2ghz overclock is fast enough for me!
My cooler's nothing particulaly special, my p4 idles at 34c @ 3.85ghz. So i don't understand why the prescott has such a bad rep. It can 'withstand' higher temps, but i honesty don't think it generates more heat than any other.
But yea, P4s are great to overclock, as long as your mother board can support it. Infrared started off with a 3.2Ghz and i started with a 3.0Ghz CPU, They are the same chips, so really He has got a 1.4Ghz overclock where i have an 1.0Ghz overclock. Wizzard, a very respected guy on this fourms got his 3.2Ghz to a mind blowing 4.5Ghz..... it is all possable....
And Clocked you have a very nice system, I started to get into custom PCs at about 13 or 14 as well.
Arctic Cooling ATI sliencer1 Rev2 is on it's way!!!
There is no way it's running @ 28c on the stock heatsink while overclocked to 3.8ghz. I'm running a very low vcore @ 3.85ghz with a very nice heatsink and a windy case and only just getting down to 32c in a 24c room.
The temp sensors aren't usually very far out though, so it's gonna be pretty cool even if it isn't 28c. Nice 1 ;)
Now.... gota save up for an other GB of ram...
Also, new pics added
What cooler did you get? It should have come with a backplate passive cooler for the ram. Anyway, how much further can the core go with that lovely cooler on it? :D
I remember my core getting up to 65c, now it rarely goes above 42c. I didn't get anything more out of the memory, but i'm not too worried about that. 560mhz is fine with me! :D
I'm looking at the x1900xt though. It's identicle to the xtx, and could easily be overclocked to the xtx speeds! The only prob is i've heard the cooler on it is very noisy. And the AC Cooler for that card doesn't exhaust the hot air, instead, it blows it directly onto the chipset... Definatly not their best cooler =/
I'm wandering how much i could sell my x800xl for. The 3dmark05 score it got is very impressive, and it has the ATI Silencer on it.
if your going to go with the X1900 then WaterCooling is prob the way to go.
Yea the SliencerAX2 puts the air toward the MOBO but have youseen the inside of it... wow... it's like 10000CM2 of serface area... the hole dam thing is fins! lol